EddieE
Headphoneus Supremus
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i love how a $700 headphone is now "cheap". I personally would not wear a $700 headphone out on the street or consider them "portable". these might be nice to travel with, but if you travel once a year then that's a waste of money.
It's all relative isn't it?
Audeze are a high end company, so a $700 Audeze model is welcome.
Every headphone suits different applications and isn't for everyone.
For me, I spend an hour every morning and an hour every evening sat on a bus going to and from work. That's one of the key times I get to sit with myself and enjoy music these days, and listen pretty much exclusively through speakers when at home, so quality portable products are always on my radar. It doesn't matter how big they are, I'm ultimately going to be sitting in a seat with them, so long as they isolate and sound good they tick my boxes.
Before these showed up I was about to pull the trigger on some JH Audio Roxanne universals to offer some listening options alongside my IE800.
These are cheaper than they would have been and offer a genuine different option in form and function to another set of IEMs, so if the closed ones turn out to the good for me, I've saved some money going for them.