Quote: XBA-4 price in Taiwan is about 15000 NT dollars, but I predict the street price may be lower to 12000 NT dollars which is equal to 400 US dollars. 

Quote: start to sell in November in Asia. No idea wether they are also available in EU and US in the same time.

  Quote:   This picture tells some business secrets of other companies, but Sony shows them to public...   It says Klipsch, ATH, UE, Shure all adopt the BA supplied by the same producer, but sony innovate its own BA technology.

It says the price of XBA series will be within 2990 to 15000 NT dollars (Taiwan), that is, $100 to $510. But the street price is expected to be lower, I think.   The start day to be sold in Taiwan will be in November.

Someone has tried these earphones and feel that xba-3 have more balanced sound than xba-4 which might  focus too much on bass and thus decrease the performance of details...   Here is link: http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=180&t=2351209&last=30682146#30674233 You can use google to...

Quote: I only have DACport, so I have no idea whether Dacport is nice enough compared with other amps. But, at least, I feel dt1350 sound great with dacport.  

  This is my DT1350 and I have used them for two months, equipped with DACport. Their sound signature is my cup of tea~

Quote:   QQ...who is this? You scare me

In the below, I collect some posts at Taiwan forum regarding the real pictures of wood cup. Maybe I have posted them before in this tread, and I forgot   Anyway, it is good to see them together in one post, Lol.   Original Fa-003...

Here is my friend's fa-002w (wenge). He just received them this morning, so it takes more time to have a deep review. So just post some pictures for those interested in the real appearance.  It seems that the cups are more beautiful on the hand than those pictured at GD website  ...

Quote:   Yes, he feels the sound is smoother and has better presentation of soundstage than 5-stepped. P.S. He owned 5-stepped fa-003w before.   The...

Here are some photos of Fa-002w pictured by my friend. He received them yesterday.   http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=180&t=1790326&p=8#26034405%2326034405#26034405   He owns dt880/600 and HD650, but now he feel that Fa-002w is amazing, especially in the presentation of female...

Quote:   Thanks.   The one he owns are LBR cups with 5 stepped amphitheaters. http://www.gd-audiobase.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=37&category_id=20&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2   I am not sure whether there is misinformation of LBR...

Quote:   IMO, FA-003s and HD650s indeed share similar sound signature. Generally, DT880s are in a sightly higher league than FA-003 are. If you have proper amps, DT880 600 ohm will be better than Fa-003 in terms of vocals and soundstage.   However, according to my friend's...

I owned both. I prefer Fa-003 to DT770 32 ohm because Fa-003s sound more like open cans. This is the main reason that I keep fa-003s.

According to my friend and his friend's description, the wood cups definitely improve the sound a lot (like d2000 ---> d5000). The overall sound become warmer and the vocals move forward.   He currently owns DT880 600 ohm, HD650 and his friend owns DT880 03, HD600 with hd650 cable.  They all...

I cannot get any helpful and useful information from this review. It is too subjective....

Quote: Yes, my friend does and it is not difficult to change the cups. Here is his article about changing the cups.   http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=180&t=1790326&m=f&p=5#25090124   Although this article was written in chinese, you still could get an idea about how to...

depend on what kind of music do you listen. Of course, the isolation is a big issue of IE8s unless you customise tips.

DBA-02 +1

I think se535s have better isolation, but w3s are more comfortable to wear. However, it depends on what tips u use.