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haha I hope that's a good thing and that you aren't in witness protection!lol I'm in these photos!
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Loved the Torinos! Which models are pictured here?
Back safe and sound in Los Angeles.
Thank you, everyone, for a beautiful show and all the love you gave the Headphones.com booth. Our design team appreciates it and will hear all the continued love, as the arrangement was a feat!
Of course, even though my favorite moments of the show were interacting with you all, I have to give shout-outs to a few pieces of gear.
-FiR's Radon 6.
-Elysian's Diva.
-Jerry Harvey's upcoming Pearl.
-Subtonic Tempest.
-Vision Ear's Elysian and Pheonix.
- ZMF Atrium Closed & Caldera.
These are all worth a mental note in your brain when you get the next opportunity to listen to them.
And, of course, last but not least, a big thank you to @joe, @warrenpchi, and the rest of the Head-Fi team for your support of my endeavors. I appreciate it, and you all deserve *multiple* rounds of applause for pulling this show off.
If this is where we are now, imagine where we'll be in 5 as a community and industry! Here is to the future together.
Big thanks to you! I don't know if you remember helping my friend try and navigate what he did or did not like about certain headphones. I believe in the end what you thought he would like the most, the Rossons, were indeed his favorite!
Its the centauri, mistral and pulsar aluminum respectively.Loved the Torinos! Which models are pictured here?
Anybody can say anything online.I've listened to the HE1 for hours in different, controlled environments. One event was a private booking specifically to listen to the HE1 (among 2-3 other setups) for as long as I wanted to. So I think I understand the cans perfectly well. Sennheiser isn't magic. They are constrained by the same physics and budget limitations that affect all E-stats. The driver itself is slower than ribbons, and the sub-bass doesn't compare well to planars that are driven to their absolute limit. They are also less spacious than some competitors including the Shangri-La.
Have you tried the Abyss TC with a serious speaker-grade 300b implementation? Have you tried the 009S on an MSB Select stack? The Mysphere with a Mass Kobo 406? If not, then I don't think you have the proper context to evaluate the HE1 to systems that match or exceed its price. I wouldn't go into the internal DAC - using a 9018 sabre is fairly inexcusable at $10k, let alone $50k. The marble is nice though.
and thats why an objective measuring bar is needed. (Abyss has left the chat) Or a survey with hundreds of participants. Your experience doesn’t override that of hundreds of people who to them the HE1 is the best they have ever heard. You might think your experience is the standard but really, you are one of the exceptionsI've listened to the HE1 for hours in different, controlled environments. One event was a private booking specifically to listen to the HE1 (among 2-3 other setups) for as long as I wanted to. So I think I understand the cans perfectly well. Sennheiser isn't magic. They are constrained by the same physics and budget limitations that affect all E-stats. The driver itself is slower than ribbons, and the sub-bass doesn't compare well to planars that are driven to their absolute limit. They are also less spacious than some competitors including the Shangri-La.
Have you tried the Abyss TC with a serious speaker-grade 300b implementation? Have you tried the 009S on an MSB Select stack? The Mysphere with a Mass Kobo 406? If not, then I don't think you have the proper context to evaluate the HE1 to systems that match or exceed its price. I wouldn't go into the internal DAC - using a 9018 sabre is fairly inexcusable at $10k, let alone $50k. The marble is nice though.
Once we were brought up to the room, there was some minimal instructions, but essentially we decided up our listening time and got to it. Normal reactions commenced from all of us, mainly populated with utterances such as "Wow!" or "I've never heard that song sound THAT GOOD!", coupled with silly, ear-to-ear grins.
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What a great CanJam! Huge appreciation to all the folks at Head-Fi who put in so much work to coordinate this effort. It's amazing to see how much CanJam has changed over the last few years. Good stuff. For me, it was a pretty mellow event, at least compared to CanJam SoCal last year. I enjoyed that too, but felt like I was trying to see/hear/check-out way too much and wiped myself out due to that. This time, I enjoyed the more casual pace and taking more time at each stop. There will be other CanJams, thankfully.
One definite highlight was my chance to listen to the amazing Sennheiser HE-1 despite missing the first day signup window since it just slipped my mind. At the end of the first day I stopped by the booth to ask if there was any possibility to get a listen, and the rep did mention that there are a surprising number of no-shows, and that was my best chance. Sure enough, the first group had two no-shows and I got my shot. Even better, I'd be going up for the 30 minute listening session with Water Cooler buds @HiFiHawaii808 , @goldwerger and @Zachik . Super Cool!
Once we were brought up to the room, there was some minimal instructions, but essentially we decided up our listening time and got to it. Normal reactions commenced from all of us, mainly populated with utterances such as "Wow!" or "I've never heard that song sound THAT GOOD!", coupled with silly, ear-to-ear grins.
We had seven minutes of listening time, a chance to try several songs and just drool, then get angry we didn't have more time. Joking aside, it was a fantastic experience, one I'm glad I got to have.
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Agreed the two best headphones they offer imo.Its the centauri, mistral and pulsar aluminum respectively.
Centauri and pulsar aluminum really stood out for me. Outstanding offerings from spirit torino.