How is the Poly working with Roon? That’s the only connection Method I care about. Do these problems everyone are having apply to the Roon integration as well? Thanks.

Don't know about K7XX specifically but I've never heard a single AKG headphone that I liked, and that includes the 812. The HD600 is a nicely balanced headphone and great at its price but that driver has gotten really long in the tooth and can't compete with the superior driver performance of...

Just received mine. Thank you MrSpeakers! Packaging is top notch. Really good presentation with a nice box, certificate and a storage case that is more compact than I expected. Headphones are solid and really comfortable. The foam inserts are a must. They went right in, before that they...

If anyone who couldn't make the introduction batch is interested, contact me through PM. :)

*facepalm*

Yes. Carrying around both a phone and the (quite heavy) HA2 was too impractical for me, but I enjoyed the combo. Bass boost is great on trains/loud commute. 

My Comply's fit very firmly. You actually have to put some work into getting them into place when they're new because it's so tight. So it's obviously not true with all tips. The sound does indeed change, however. So you're just gonna have to choose for yourself what is the lesser of two evils.

Unfortunately the stock tips don't fit many of us well, hence the discussion on third-party options. The best sound in the world won't do no good if the stupid little buggers keep sliding out.

http://www.complyfoam.com/products/sen-isolation/ These are the Comply tips I use with my IE800s! It doesn't say on the page that they're made for the IE800 but they fit them that's for sure. It's a really snug fit so no chance they're gonna fall off. 

Measurements aren't there to tell you what you like and not like. But measurements can be very helpful, can serve as a somewhat objective complement to how we hear things and can provide a good understanding of why a headphone sounds the way it does. Due to natural limitations with measurements...

  Well... that didn't help... 

I never claimed how measurements are the only thing that matters, but I did say they do not lie. :) I'm not qualified to make an in-depth statement of how the measured data corresponds directly to perceived sonic performance. But if there is a problem with a headphone, in all cases in my...

I got em too and I agree. Absolutely no problem with tips falling off of the earphones (rather, they fit almost too snuggly) and now they finally stay in my ears, which they never did using any of the supplied tips. But unfortunately sound is indeed degraded, there is some weird muffling in the...

The Abyss certainly has its strengths (impact, dynamism) but the treble disrupts the coherency of the sound, and the comfort/build is absolutely awful for a $5000 headphone. Hard, stiff, heavy and just an abomination to wear. But I can certainly understand why some like it, it is a unique sound...

   

Didn't know comply had tips specifically for the IE800s, thanks! May check em out. 

3000 bucks and no expandable storage? 256gb is all you get? Now THAT is funny.

Any chance we'll be seeing an alternate lightning-based DAC attachment cord from Sennheiser?

I'm personally using a modded 717, I would guess it's somewhere around the level of your modded 727. Caps replacements did a great job tightening up the low-end of the 007. In its original state, the bass was a tad loose compared to the 009. Now, the bass of the 007 is just as fast and tight as...

It varies with model. The 70xxx ones I've heard don't have it. Mine (71xxx) has a little bit of it, but I happen to like it actually. Never gets bright to my ears but does add a little bit och sparkle and "fun" compared to the earlier 70xxx model.  I find the SR-009 much more bothersome...

While in theory I can imagine that would work pretty well, why would you bother? There is nothing the 009 does better IMO and the 007 can be had for half the price.    And before anyone jumps in and talks about "detail" and "air" and "soundstage width"... it's just more treble, guys. It's just...

Interesting to hear STAX is producing an amplifier specifically for the SR-009. Hopefully, it will be tuned so that it will attenuate the (IMO, quite significant) flaws of the 009 and bring it closer to the 007 mk1, which I definitely feel is a superior headphone. Something along the lines of...