Couldn't resist... Went ahead and ordered, having read only one review. Big fan of Audeze though, my very old LCD-3's are still in regular rotation even after purchasing much more expensive headphones. https://www.audeze.com/products/lcd-24

I've spent a long time building large playlists of songs that have specific characteristics that are good for testing out new headphones, DAC's, amplifiers, etc... I have a master list of about 500 songs, that I then create a new playlist from (9 or 10 songs) for an audition. for example...

found this model on thingiverse and decided to try and print it. Not exactly portable, but hilarious as a desktop iem holder.

Wife asked what I wanted for Christmas. I said a pair of headphones, of course! She thinks I have a hoarding problem. Anyone else in this boat?

Did a search, couldn't find anything on this new DAC https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1074244218/adapt-audio-dac-sound-upgrade-for-music-lovers-and/ Says uses a ESS 32bit SABRE HiFi DAC, but not which one.... $75 bucks for the early bird reference, I jumped in.