I litteraly own one and those are my impressions, but ok

He1 us pretty extremely colored tbh. It's an extremely nice coloration, but it's absalutely pretty rich and warm (especialy through the mids) with a little bit of mid-bass bloom (compaired to he90, shang, etc). I wouldn't form opinions on gear off of sound demos if I were you

The dac in he1 doesn't hold up. If highly recommend using an external

Look up their replacement part catalogue. It will tell you what is in and out of stock. I can link it after work, but am about to start all day meetings

Fwiw, ear pads are currently in stock at senn in Germany. Might be worth reaching out to the German CS line to see if you can buy some direct to the us. Maybe they will have better response times than the us line

This seems to be where the disconnect between us is. I don't see how it's any different than physical tuning when it's how the unit arrives. I personaly see 0 reason to make a distinction between stock eq and stock damping tuning

I'm haven't said people shouldn't be comparing eqed cans to eachother. I'm saying that viewing a comparison as unfair when it's stock for stock is wierd.

Internal vs external is the focus for me. Esentialy OEM vs aftermarket. I view it as comparing, say, a stage 2 chip in a car vs just getting the higher end model. It's certainly an interesting comparison, but viewing tuning (which is what I consider external eq to be) as required for a fair...

I don't think this is a good comparison even if it was how cars are reviewed (it absalutely is not btw). If audeze wants customers to experience their EQ, then they should force that upon customers like warwick do. Stock for stock is the only comparison baseline that makes sense imo

.... why? One is doing a hardware eq while the other needs external software. Why should these methods be equated? To me, this is kind of like saying you should pad roll all cans to a similar target if you want comparisons to be fair. If it's not how most customers will use the product I'm not...

Honestly, I don't realy see how comparing systems sound as delivered is unfair

Honestly, I feel like anyone who has been to a single show realizes that show impressions are limited

I can't find any info on this. You mean like a special adaptor box made specificaly for the 2a3?

I think there are 2 things going on here. 1. Don't trust measurements from someone who isn't open to criticism of their methodology 2. 1266 do actualy just have a messed up FR. That's why you will see even the biggest advocates talking about how genre specific they can be

Rofl, yah. GO and resolve pretty well detest my favorite pieces of gear. Prefrence and music listened to play a huge role

Honest question (and this is more targeted at nearly all groups with stands at shows in general, not just you). Why not have a better setup at shows? Tbh, as much as the Imani piqued my interest in nyc, I was pretty severely disapointed at the level of setup running them given the tier they are...

The tubes are extremely close to a 12au7 (4 of them are equivalent and 4 are quite close). I've asked senn a few times if 4 matched pairs of 12au7 will work, but I think we all know how reapinsive senn is right now...

I have spoken with most of the major senn dealers due to my broken HE1 and they have been having pretty minimal luck as well from what I can tell. Imo, he90 and shang should be pretty high up the list for you. Shang is a pita to get good bass out of, and he90 is equally as picky but in...

It's the pair @orientexpedite sold a while back. Iirc It's built from a set of spare drivers but he may be able to comment further.

They kind of sit inside the cup a bit. Not chunky by any means but not as thin as the pics make them look.

Fight the good fight my friend 🫡

Til chat GPT was trained on 6-moons

This wasn't shipped by senn. I was sending it to myself to get if from one coast to the other in the origonal crate but didn't have the pelican case. The real issue is that the unit was dropped outside of the crate and a ton of suff was moved around. My guess is someone opened it but not like...

UPS was its own headache, but much less of an issue than senn luckily.

Agreed. Of all times to break out the race card, this was a weird one...