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Very interesting ideas. Once reviewing the list of woods and desired capabilities, I think the Padauk would be an excellent choice for this kind of headphone - hard but porous BUT you are shipping with Teak so you must think a softer wood is better and of course I should defer to the designer...

For the Burson I'd try the DAC out and see if that'll do the loop. For the Mojo you need to press the volume buttons down while the Mojo is booting to get line out level through the 3.5mm and then it is 3.5mm to twin RCA to Loki to Burson as technobear stated.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! Very interested. A stack of Schiit might be nice.

Due to a flood many years ago all of my records are in unlabeled sleeves and some don't even have sleeves. I own more late 90s techno than I'd care to count but haven't played any of it in 15 years. And yet I just recently revived my 1200MK2 with a $400 cartridge and it sounds very good...

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"I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And doggone it, people like me." RIP Phil Hartman

I just want to point out this is IEMs explicitly. The items that have significant excursion (speakers, full size headphones) are possible for burn in to matter because of the actual physical characteristics of the materials. Burn in of cables still smells like BS tho. Do enough to verify...

  I have the JH 11 but no reference to tell how they compare to something like the Layla. However, I am very tempted by the Lola.

I was curious was NS10s were and found a lovely site with the following description: "They've got anything but a flat response, but the idea is that when you get a mix perfect on a pair of NS-10M's, that mix will be perfect everywhere."   HAHAHA.  I'm guessing those speakers are subjected to...

The Rin Choi articles are fascinating around this subject. There are differences measured but for some the differences are tiny. Differences in 'pad crushing' would be more dramatic and I recall Rin mentioning the same in one of the articles...

IF you are saying that the differences between 2 pairs of the same model will vary more than the differences between different models, without burn-in even being a factor, then... what's the point of rating a headphone model at all? I'm hoping that's not your position.  The whole point of the...

I recall an advert on the front page for a testing device/service available at Can Jam (SoCal?). Seems that's our chance to see how it works. First you need a baseline - pick 3 headphones people rate as excellent and 3 that people rate as average. If at all possible, make all these headphones...

I think the only way to prove this is 1) have a 100% accurate way to test headphones 2) apply it before and after burn in.   Anybody got #1 all set?   No?  Well, get on it...