Thanks to Meze and @Andykong for arranging the loaner tour for the Meze Liric. Below are my impressions. Just to let you all know where I am coming from…started on the headfi journey about 8 years ago, when headphones became a necessity to enjoy music in the presence of our infant children. The LCD-2 with the schiit bifrost and lyr was my first setup, and fast forward now, have cycled through the usual suspects in the dynamic, planar and estat cans, and have settled mainly on estats as the first love and planars as the mistress. I am an open-back...

Firstly, thanks to Meze for allowing me to participate in the loaner program. Lots of great reviews and photos of the Neo. I will provide a review based on my 40 something year-old ears whose favorite headphones currently are the Audeze LCD-XC and Hifiman HE-6. For a fairer comparison, for mid-fi closed headphones, I have the Denon D600 and Oppo PM-3. For its price, the Neo is really great value if you are looking for a durable, handsome, very comfy, darker, dynamic driver, bass heavy headphone with in-line controls. Compared to the planar...

Thanks to Chord and Craig for organizing the Hugo2 tour in Canada. There have been many excellent photos and reviews on the Hugo2 already on Head-fi. I would like to first provide the context of my review, so that readers can benefit maximally from my comments, and also not to be misled either. I am a late 40s guy who enjoys the headphone experience that have a pretty flat FR, but also enjoy and am probably more tolerant of the more pronounced treble. I am not well-versed in the audio/headfi terminology and tend to use plain language to describe...