Hey! SOMEONE learned how to use "multiquote!!"
Oh, and here is Parrot Zik PR Director Vanessa Loury, earnestly considering @giogio 's request for a loaner Zik for evaluation. Indeed, it may be that very pair!
Wow, fascinating woman. Now I am even more interested in Parrot
About multiquote, I already could do that. But it only works to multiquote many different posts in one answer.
What I could not, and still cannot do, is how to "multiquote" one single post, dividing it in pieces so that I can put my answer under each piece.
The only suggestion received till now is to manually copy and paste the quote again ad again...
Let me be clear: I don't hear that, but after sb told me that I noticed that when I took cans with i.g. freq range starting from 25Hz and compared them to Koss ones (that apparently starts from 18Hz which is 2Hz lower than average but maybe exaggeration as well)
Per H8 defect take a look at: http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/p/13370/125588.aspx#125588 . B&O staff asks people to replace items and do tests whenever they did receive new batch (which is lame as well).
I'm not a native - sorry!
I've looked on eBay but all return policies from Japan says that box must be un-opened so it's hard to test it that way. You say that pay-pal gives some additional privilliges?
I've tested for sure Sennheiser PX 200 that was comparable to Koss ones.
Once you write to PR lady, I'll follow up with my email to support sending you a pair (-;
You (and
@kayandjohn, and whoever want to see me testing the Parrot) can write her already. I have written her a week ago. She answered asking me where I am located, I answered back, and I am still waiting for a feedback. Maybe some fanboys queries would encourage them.
About the Metallica stuff and frequencies, I am afraid it still is out of my hearing possibilities, but I will test better to see if I notice what you mean.
Anyway, I can hear till 15hz, and a bit till 10, with headphones like the Fidelio or the Audio Technica which goes down till 7 and 8hz respectively. So, it is good to have headphones which have a broader frequency response. I think it also improves the quality of the sound, because there is no need of an artificial boost.
About that B&O thread, I think that maybe because you are not "native", you misunderstood it. They do NOT say that. The guy asked BeoPlay if there was a defected batch but the BeoPlay person did NOT confirm that. BeoPlay only said to try the new unit in the shop to be sure it is not faulty. So, the theory of BeoPlay is that they are single faulty units.
Considering how many people had this problem, I definitely do NOT believe that.
For me it is clear, either ALL production is like that, for design, and they are not planning to do anything about it, or they did actually notice it and will do a better batch, but do not want to say it clearly to avoid massive returns. They keep it silent and just accept each individual return request, as it if was a "defect unit".
About the Senny, I have the PX 200 ii, they sound relatively cold and quite muffled on the bass and low mids, a bit muddy. It is not a real coldness of a v-shape because of this muddy low mids, but it is not warm either.
So, if they sound like the Koss and you like the Koss, what did you not like in the Senny? The Momentum Wireless? Was it the old or the new Momentum?
Did I already tell you that there is a BT Headphone from Koss? If you like Koss so much, you should probably try it. Jude Mansilla, the Admin of Head-Fi (as far as I understood) reviewed them and liked them.
If you do not like warm signatures, you could try the Momentum On Ear wireless, they are apparently a bit more V-Shaped. The Plantronics also.
For Ebay, I suggest you to call the Ebay Buyer Protection or Customer Care of your Country and just ask them how does it work with that item. Generally Ebay considers that products can be opened and returned. How can you find out if the product works well with your devices without opening it?
Good to see you've learnt how to multi quote! There is a list
here that shows which devices are coming out with LDAC support this year. Didn't see a phone on that list. I'm interested to see how LDAC affects battery life and bluetooth connection reliability. Obviously when higher amount of data is being transferred over bluetooth the battery life is going to drop. The connection issues also seem to appear more commonly with the higher end bluetooth 4.0 headsets than the older, cheaper models
Sgrunt
I could already, as said to Kayandjohn.
I know that list, that's why I asked
@elektron about the phone he was talking about. Because I saw no phone in that list either.
About the connection issues, it may be related to the low energy protocol of BT 4. And, who knows what will Sony do. I understand what you mean. If the guy of BeoPlay gave me as unofficial answer that the poor range may be wanted to save battery, than Sony could do the same if the LDAC really uses more battery.
Good luck convincing Oppo to make a bluetooth version. As I'm sure you are well aware most high end companies hate bluetooth and wireless
Would be a great achievement if they can fit in a decent DAC with good battery life into one of those connectible receivers (noise cancelling is obviously out of the question).
(did you just notice that I have multiquoted you? But it is slow, I have to cut the new part of your post, past it under my partial answer, select it, and quote it).
Maybe Sennheiser was encouraged because they had already experience with the other wireless, RS Series.
My way of seeing it is: the sound is made by both hardware and software. Now, it is true that the BT still degrades the signal respect to cable, although I have read some people declaring that it is not a limit of BT but of how it is implemented. BUT, if you take a very good Planar Magnetic headphone and plug a BT receiver in them, you surely have a much better sound than any existing BT Headphone. Just, with the strange receiver protruding.
So, if they are able to make such good hardware, what's so bad if they just implement a BT chip in the headphone?
I mean, it seems to me like an arrogant snobbism. They can make both things and make people happy.
It is not like making crappy headphones for 50 USD to please more people, it is making High End BT Headphones to please the audiophiles who need the freedom of wireless.
It is really stupid that they don't do it.