But I really couldn't get over the build quality of the VC too.. For eg when I removed the pads, the driver covers looked like cheap black plastic.
The screws were screwed in uneven, some so tight that the screws bent the plastic cover. The non-finish of the wood below the ear pads.. The "rawness" and home made sort of construction, compared to my Meze, abyss and Utopia.
I ended up ordering another VC and am trying to get a special request in for a "perfect" finish/build on the new set; not sure if Zach/ZMF will even entertain me on that, but I'm hopeful.
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@Roasty - I wanted to address your concerns, and I'm glad you like the sound of the V Closed!
1. We use ABS injection molded driver covers - we easily could have used metal, but through our testing have found the injection molded covers do more positive to the sound. The plastic covers are specially designed with a rounded back side of the grille with a davinci pattern to allow air to go through easily and not get caught on any flat surface.
From a manufacturing sense, injection molded plastic is FAR more expensive (when building in small batches) as the costs of the molds are exorbitant. We are not cutting costs here. I just found injection molded grille covers to sound the best, we use them on all our headphones.
2. Our headphones are made of solid wood, and because of that wood shifts and moves constantly, so we have to build our headphones "under-tension" with specific materials so that we can ship our headphones all over the world, in different environments with different moisture content. Because we're using solid wood, everything has to be adjusted specifically to each headphone individually because wood cannot be exactly the same shape even when cut using a CNC machine. This causes the small parts that are precise every-time like plastic to not always fit in perfectly, so sometimes there are construction variances to make sure the headphone will withstand the test of time.
3. We build every headphone with the utmost of care, they all go through my hands and we have a stringent QC list that everyone touching the headphone has to go through. I can totally understand the concerns of ordering a headphone made mostly out of wood. Because of the wood construction our headphones take a much longer time to build because of the unique quality of wood to each headphone, and I realize because of that those wanting a "perfect" aesthetic that is predictable may want headphones made out of other materials that are not as varied as natural wood.
We did receive your special requests from Zepp, but please rest assured all headphones are built with the utmost of care.
As an aside - I use many construction methods, tools and practices that I've picked up from my days of building acoustic guitars. I love the "breathing" that woods does to make it unique and something that has a tactile feel when you hold it, and speaks individually from each species acoustically.
