Looking for a headphone - IEM or Closed - with little to no fatigue for long work days. I've been away from the scene for a while and looking for some places to start. Money isn't really a barrier for me. Just looking for something detailed and warm. No need for crazy expensive cans but between...

  Yeah misspoken by me whoops, hopefully the message got across

  No Worries, Happy Listening 

  I'm not a hard reviewer or anything. But I've had my share of experiences with high end headphones. I owned the original momentums, I felt they were very good headphones, but in the end I wanted open headphones at that time.   Since then I've sold all my open headphones, and I now own the...

  You're missing an audio chain my friend. A quality digital to analogue converter that doesn't have to fit into a laptop enclosure + a quality amplifier (quality does not equal power).   Many high end amps have a lot of power so that they can drive any headphone on the market. Power and...

My observations about the cups were right on with @jude   At first look I could already say, wow these pads are way too shallow and my ear will end up against the driver.   Anyway the price looks nice, and the cups are cool.  Too bad I've no reason to pick up a pair since I'm already a 900 owner

It's funny to see how popular the 5210mk3 is with TH-900 users (me as well), when in reality i'm 99% sure it's good with every headphone there is. For some reason it has this reputation with the th-900 in particular.   Like @sir poulet said. It took his hd650 to another level. I have no...

  The JDS labs element is my quasi portable I sometimes use with the th-900 and it seems to do pretty well. It uses the o2 dac. I don't remember if o2 has a line out but perhaps you could change the sig up a little bit with a cheapish amplifier to tide you over.   I might suggest the little...

Honestly when the Bifrost was announced / released I thought it would never receive any upgrades and now there's been a couple.  Great job guys.

If this is real the hype train will just be too much for me to handle.

Well I said it before, the Element is a nice piece of audio equip.  I found it to be as good as any other equipment I've tried in the price range with just a different flavour. Smooth and linear with power for any headphone. Intimate, laid back sound.  Looks nice on the desk. My recommendations...

  Yeah bakoon is a endgame amp to be sure.

  I originally couldn't get it to work and had to use a powered usb hub to supply enough power.  Here's the response from jds.  

  Nothing analytical sounding about the element to my ears.  Bass seemed fine but I understand if you want the extra thump.

  I know very well it would have enough power for anything other than extreme needs (HE-6 and the like). You need not worry.  1.1W @ 32 ohm is plenty.  This thing gets loud fast.  Standard planar headphones like Audeze, Hifiman 4xx/5xx, mr speakers will not be a problem.

    That was my original thought but if you wanted to line out to a speaker system when you're not listening to headphones then why not.

Ah true makes sense to line out to a speaker system from odac.  Slipped my mind.

Seems a little strange to get a product like this just to line it through the odac which is seperately available? I guess if you are using it on the go but have a better amp at home.

The light is nice and it's a great looking piece of work.   Additionally I never heard the O2 and I know the element uses the odac.  This explans the clean, linear sound that those big fans of the O2 are always talking about.   At first I was unable to get it to work with my Galaxy S5...

  edit: Disregard original post.  Here.  

Smooth, clean, pretty nice detail for the price point.  The design is great which can't really be appreciated on my mess of a desk.  Volume @ 9 o'clock on low gain seems to be a little louder than my normal listening volume for the TH-900, so it seems to me The Element would have no problem...

Mine is coming today as well.  I'll post some initial impressions.

wowie that price

Hey Audeze,   I would love to be a beta tester for the black box.  I am 100% tech saavy as you requested, a software engineer doubly skilled on the hardware side of things, I started building computers at about the age of 12.  It's safe to say since I'm here that I love audio and am willing to...