I just want to start off by thanking you for responding to the past few posts of critical (but respectful) feedback. It means a lot for us as consumers to feel our voice is heard.
We certainly want our customers to be happy. We also understand these headphones are a little bit out of our comfort zone. We are also quite possibly the smallest company trying to make these kind of headsets like Mobius, Penrose etc. But the good part about it is, we are also quite nimble and can quickly address many of these.
In addition, many of the requests we get here in are very specific and address a narrow set of customers, who are also very passionate and give us feedback. For example during Mobius development, one of the most requested features was EQ settings. We now know only about 5% of the users of Mobius even bother changing any settings in Mobius and less than 1% change EQ even once.
I never tried the Mobius, but the Penrose are definitely the most uncomfortable pair of headphones I've ever owned (that includes both Focal Elear and Utopia, Sony Z1R, ZMF Omni, HD650, HD800, Hifiman HE-400i, HE-560i and HE-1000i, and then Momentum 3.0 and WH1000XM3 for wireless). It's not as bad now after stretching them out for several nights, but they're still by far the least comfortable headphones I own, and I need to take break after a couple hours.
There are two different things here. If we are talking about a passive headset, it is easier to make them lighter by sacrificing some efficiency. For example take our LCD1 headset. It weighs about 250 gms and has 20 Neodymium magnets in it. It is also quite efficient. When you design wireless headphones or headphones with electronics, in addition to the weight of the drivers, we now have electronics and battery weight as well. With Momentum or WH1000 the drivers are quite light weight and it is easier to design. With Planars, the weight comes from the magnets. If we are designing a passive headphone, we can reduce the magnets and rely on external amplification. But for something like Penrose, we have to also make them very efficient. In fact Penrose might quite possibly be the most efficient Planar headphone. The dynamic range is very large as well, since we have a balanced design. Our goal was to find the best possible balance between weight and efficiency, while cramming all the electronics inside the headphone.
There are multiple latencies involved. The main latency is from the USB driver. In Mobius for example, even when it is wired, musicians find it hard to use with anything more than 20 ms latency. So we wrote a low latency ASIO driver. You raise two different issues here.I hope that Audeze can balance the latency and stability
Bluetooth based codecs - AptXLL - The latency for the codec might be 50 ms, but in the end you will also have to add the system latency. In addition you are also losing fidelity becuase AptXLL is a very low bitrate codec. The microphone bandwidth is also limited when using SCO codec for talking. We have tried AptXLL on Penrose and it does not sound very good.
2.4 Ghz _ Latency/ / Range - This is something we believe we can fine tune more.
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