I see - so no 20% or whatever coupon?

They sell new stuff through .deals or just refurb & B-stock?

I'm gonna snag a pair of the Solaris 2020, but what's the Black Friday situation usually look like with CFA?

Mother of god - I got my ZX507 today and loaded it up with some well mastered FLAC (think Random Access Memories) and I was reminded that Spotify has McDonald's quality. This DAP sounds incredible with the 1ZR and I cannot wait to hear the Solaris and Andromeda on it.

What cables are people using over the stock one? I'd love something a little longer and sleeker...

Could be related to burn in? Sony admits the sound changes as those units go through their first few hundred hours. All good otherwise?

Whatever I get from CF will be driven out of a ZX507, so this is interesting

Cool - the more I listen to the Z1R, the more outrageous it's price is to me. I'll keep it, but man, that thing should be closer to $1~1.3 than $2k. It it NOT a $2k IEM.

Looks normal to me? Lots of people have weird fit issues and I'm sitting over here with no problems with anything, like... ever :D

So... I'm really curious about buying either an Andromeda or Solaris in late November, and I'm 100% willing to road trip up to Portland from Santa Cruz to audition them at ALO. I seem to gravitate towards hybrids or DD IEMs, which is why the Solaris has me thinking. At the moment, I'm cycling...

Same. I bought them shortly before ordering a pair of 1ZRs and didn't think much of it. $300 Hybrids from a no-name company - **** it, why not. My initial reaction to the Z1Rs was similar to that of the Z5s: with the right sources and sub-bass you "get" it, but overall no surprises. Excellent...

  They weren't for me, but YMMV?     This is what I ended up ordering. Got a multi-pack to see which suits best.    These _are_ nice headphones. I guess my only other comment would be that Sony needs to step up their cable game. When I opened the box, I seriously thought I was looking...

What Comply or other tips should I get for these headphones? The only ones that give enough seal out of the box are the hybrids, but they feel brutal in my canals. The Z5 doesn't seem to have as deep insertion as the EX1000s, which I wasn't expecting. I am warming up to their sound...

Nah - they're different. The EX1000 sounds more spacious to me. There's clear separation between the channels and you can identify sound positions. The Z5 might do that, but it envelops you with bass, first and foremost. Maybe they underestimated the bass power of that dedicated dynamic driver...

Hello, Thread - I just got my Amazon XBA-Z5s a couple of days ago. A few weeks prior, I bought the EX1000s, and was totally blown away at how spacious and positional the soundstage was. Prior to that, I had some Shure E5Cs, which were replaced by a pair of SE425s under warranty. After using the...