My references to my LCD-2.2c and the later and, now current, offerings were intended to be an actual example of the concern over rapid and frequent driver revisions. There are good and bad sides to it, depending on your preferences. And all headphones have their limitations. It took Audeze nearly four years to come up with a headphone that was enough of a step up from the first pair I bought from them for me to feel compelled to upgrade. Not that I didn't think the LCD-X and LCD-3 weren't better ... but at least across the units I demoed they were not compelling, or consistent, enough to warrant the change in the case of the LCD-X nor risk the driver nonsense with the 3.
I'm hoping their new versions let them get away from concerns about driver reliability entirely, while still advancing their performance. Only time will tell on that.
It's not like I'm not an Audeze fan ... my LCD-4 didn't just magically appear in my collection.
LIES YOUR ACTUALLY AN AUDEZE HATER AND YOU JUST GOT THE LCD-4 TO STOP A REAL AUDEZE FAN FROM GETTING ONE (me)!
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I sympathise with some of your points and agree to others.
Audeze are still a relatively new company, just like HiFiMan, Oppo, Master & Dynamic, etc, so teething stuff will occur.
In the TOTL world of headphones, companies are going much further and advancing the art at unprecedented levels.
As long as the companies continue to show great support and hands-on community level interactions, we will benefit down the line.
Think of this hobby like a PC gamer does.
The similarities between these these two, somewhat seemingly disparate, hobbies are eerily similar.
Upgrades will occur, but how how this is represented to consumers is the question.
Many of us here are positive positive about Audeze's changes to update their lines, but some would prefer a better way to differentiate between newer and older version's off the same family headphone line.
My biggest concern is that the reviews of certain, now discontinued, 2015 headphones (2015 EL8 series) will still echo louder than the the noise generated that new versions exist (2016 EL8 series).
Audeze on Facebook, has a stickied post promoting the new Audeze Audeze EL8 Titanium headphones.
I've posted to this post a few times, and more than once informed via my posts of the older and newer EL8 series.
However one poster was still oblivious and wrote negative points about the older 2015 EL8 CB headphones. His points were (generally) true. The issue his post represented was that those who read his comment will assume that the EL8 CB series has issues, which is only true for for 2015 EL8 headphones and no longer true for the new 2016 iterations.
Secondly, only a few are in the know about the changes. There is a significant number of Audeze owners of who are in the dark of newer versions of their headphones.
I support the changes. All I ask is a formal announcement.
To those who are thinking of upgrading your Audeze headphones to the updated versions, I cannot wait to hear your thoughts and impressions.