Ok. Maybe one buyer for now. Jadawgis732 claimed that my DBA02 had channel imbalance.   Well, it turns out that I was right. This person manages to find all sorts of problems with ‘phones. Must have golden ears or something:   He returned his UE600 to Logitech, and put up the RMA’ed...

America has a culture of returning goods. Not sure if the culture is unique in America, but I have travelled enough to know that it is not cross-cultural. Take me as an example. I am rather “Americanized” in this regard. Several months ago I bought two shirts online from Hollister, and returned...

Quote: Nice. Good deed, indeed.   I thought someone was going to pay $100 for a Senn HD800 guide. Well, there might be 800 pages. You never know.

Quote:   You might do better by buying this Sennheiser HD 800 Dynamic Open-Back Stereo Headphones HD800 GUIDE instead: http://www.ebay.com/itm/190717213687?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Wait... I remember reading Tyll saying that the new batch is gold. Should I hold off selling my LCD-3 and have it RMA'ed then? I thought what Audeze do for the "new" LCD-3 is to make it sound natural / neutral (kind of trying to be HD800 but then it's no longer LCD3).  Indeed, this guy said that...

Quote:   Yes. I was talking about LCD-3. I asked about how it does for spoken words, because unless it's a trained musician who knows very well how an instrument sounds, we know how spoken words sound (in terms of naturalness) better.

So should I bother having it RMA'ed, if I prefer HD650 over rev. 1 and HE500 in terms of (a) tonal balance and (b) naturalness?   It does not have to be classical music or acoustic music. Can someone use his to watch a movie, and tell me how rev. 2 does for spoken words?

Quote:   I have HE-500 with me here. Also not happy with it for tonal balance and naturalness. Great cans for vocal though (if you can bear with the colored, mid-centric signature).

Quote: I agree with you. It's superb in many aspects. I am just not happy about it's tonal balance and naturalness. As I said, I would rather pick up HD650 for classical music and acoustic music. That's why i wonder if I should bother having it RMA'ed

I am sure it's been discussed before, but could someone tell me how rev. 1 and rev. 2 differs in tonal balance and naturalness? I mean I am happy with LCD-3 for rock, electronic, pop, and other processed music. However, I am quite unhappy with it for vocal, classical, and acoustic music. Indeed...

And you could include an internal switch, making the O2 capable of doing 1x, 2.5x and 6x gain at the same time: How to: O2 with Triple Gain Switch

Just thought some of you might be interested: How to: O2 with Triple Gain Switch

As a general rule, amps perform better at lower gain settings -- the sound is cleaner, background darker, soundstage bigger, and sound less congested! Take O2 as an example. It is considered by many as TOTL comparable; it provides enough juice for power-hungry orthodynamic phones with its...

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Well, Heir Audio is a sponsor so I doubt that it's founder is a fool. I was just asking a legitimate question: would the sound differ, if one of the 20 drivers is placed differently than this: http://www.head-fi.org/t/568365/some-pictures-of-my-woodies-by-the-wizard-aka-the-grand-master/135

I am sure you have a point. But would you say that this 20-driver IEM (which is a creation of Wizard of Heir Audio, BTW) would sound differently if the 20 drivers are not lined up like this? http://www.head-fi.org/t/568365/some-pictures-of-my-woodies-by-the-wizard-aka-the-grand-master/135

See this: http://www.head-fi.org/t/430688/home-made-iems/1380#post_8499875

Quote:   Not sure about that. The people at the home-made-iem thread told me that there's no such a thing as individual tuning. For example, BA placement in relation to the shell/bore does not matter. That is to say, no matter how the BA drivers are placed, it still sounds the same. 

That might be true, but 99% of the IEM manufacturers do zero (0) research.

Sorry if this has already been stated: is your hd800 (with thin bass) of the latest batch?

Quote:   Great!   I heard it's around $500?

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Quote: I think it is 5.1 easily.