OMG! Great HP! Great wood! A good price!

The current VC I have is the fourth I have owned. I ordered the Ironwood version a few seconds after the very first VCs became available roughly 5 years ago. That was the most I had ever spent on a piece of audio equipment. I was in the middle of a work meeting and stood up and just said "I...

Emotive Clarity! I just posted my Caldera Closed Review here: https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/zmfheadphones-caldera-closed.27214/reviews I took everything I had written about the CC and cleaned it up and added to it and put it in a review format. What a pure pleasure it has been to spend...

I agree 100% with your observation with pads. Here is my take on the protein pads which is super similar: Protein pads: I thought my favorite was the thick Caldera Closed leather pads. Then I tried the Bokeh Protein pads. Well they sure brought the planar into the planar. The increase in...

Did my first pad rolling. I went from the Caldera Closed stock hybrid pad to the Caldera Closed all leather thick pad. What I am noticing is an overall increase in the thickness of the notes. From low frequency to the mids to high frequency. It is not better or worse but is for sure...

Caldera Closed and Verite Closed I thought I would throw in a comparison between the Caldera Closed and the Verite Closed. In general the Caldera Closed comes across as more balanced. Everything is equal. Smooth and fast. With a tinge of darkness. The Verity Closed on the other hand has...

Lee was great to work with. Excellent communication. Quick to respond and quick to ship. Item arrived as advertised. I can easily recommend working with Lee.

For me the AC has a more intimate soundstage. The venue is a little smaller and I am closer to the stage. CC has a little bigger stage and I am a few rows back. For closed back HPs, I find no issue with the staging. I do not find either closed in which is an impressive feat by ZMF. That...

Caldera Closed and Atrium Closed: Song: Dreams by Fleetwood Mac (2002 Remaster). The very first thing that jumps out to me is the sub bass of the AC is more pronounced. The CC is more mid bass focused but the bass blends in super well with everything else. The treble is a little more...

Valid points with the Expanse. You will for sure not have a similar negative sensation with the Caldera Closed.

The Caldera closed gives me the Verite Closed vibe as I mentioned before. There is the similarity in the emotions of the notes. The darker warmer sound. The Planar/DD difference is still obvious. The CC also gives off a lot of DCA Expanse vibe. The Expanse is considered an open back HP but...

When I do a review, I like to take notes on my phone as I am listening. I usually listen late at night in bed or early morning in bed. No disturbances and the focus is just on the music. I then take these notes and clean them up and post randomly on the Head-Fi thread for the item. Each post...

"I See a Darkness" is another title contender. Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham) is my current favorite lyricist. One of the great lyricists of all time IMHO. I have owned the Verite Closed three different times since it came out. I do get some of the Verite Closed vibe with the Caldera...

Emotive Clarity! That will probably be the title of my CC review. The emotions are visceral with the CC along with Planar clarity. The ZMF emotions of the notes comes first and foremost before the clarity. I would agree that from memory the CC is darker than the CO. I spent many hours with...