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Regarding user-friendliness of the format: We'll await more feedback, but can reevaluate how its laid out and formatted.
I don't know if I'm the only one, but I like the separation of different headphone categories similar to how Tyll from InnerFidelity organized his "
Wall of Fame" article (e.g. open-back and closed-back circumaurals, open-back and closed-back supra-aurals, in-ear earphones and custom IEM's, etc.). I was honestly looking for LCD-3 under the "Headphones Over-Ear" section when it was actually near the very end in the Summit-Fi section.
As of right now, the guide is pretty good if one is just browsing for new gear in general (such as myself), but I think it can be made better with more, better defined, categories. The one/two-page ads were also a bit confusing when they were put right next to category-changing page, but it's an ad, I can't expect too much change since it's standard in nearly all magazines.
Also, I think the featured articles/gear should be mentioned in consistent places in the guide (e.g. at the beginning or end of each category, all at the beginning, all at the end). It was confusing to see a black featured article page at the end of the "Headphones Over-Ear" category (over-ear as in circumaural? that's what comes to mind when I see over-ear, as opposed to on-ear) and another black page immediately following for the featured headphone in the "Gaming Headsets" category.
More feedback, I like the creativity with colours and fonts, but some fonts are hard to read. For example, it took me a good 20 seconds (or more) to figure out what the wording was on page 44 in the guide. I thought it said "rahlpc"....and yes...I did type that in Google because I had no idea what "rahlpc" was.
I'm probably the only one who thought this though. I'm not much of a cabling guy. >.>
On page 45, underneath the page number, I misread "headphone cables" as "headphone gooies"
