Welcome to the family!
Thanks! I'll first try them with the stock cable. Together with my iBasso DX160 DAP. Looking forward to it.
As in, 100 hours?
Honestly they sound very much like speakers I've had with Carbon Fibre cones & those took hundreds of hours to really open up..My SR-1's have about 70 hours & I swear I hear the treble response starting to sustain better & better every day..
Thanks! I'll let them open up, before giving my conclusions
OK, mission completed, tried for two weeks intensively and then decided to sell them. They are nice headphones, pleasant sound, but didn't fulfilled my expectations of warm sound with more bass then Ananda. I'm not a collector, I prefer to have only one pair. Following this experience, I visited audio shop and compared Ananda with various models from Focal and Denon with the same result. Nothing (up to 1500 EUR) comes close to planar bass. So next time I got hi-fi bug, I need to stay on planar technology. Yet to hear electrostatic, though.
Same exact thing happened to me. Months on my self on a stand. Pulled them out this week to use and the headband screws on one side stripped out of their weak plastic screw holes. IBasso has been responsive. I'm sending them pics of the issue, but I'll probably need to do the fix above (with the longer screws as suggested, thanks)I knew it was only a matter of time before these tiny screws failed in some way. Such a nicely built headphone with a lot of quality components, but these baby screws were a terrible decision. Not to mention the cheap plastic used in areas that it shouldn't be.
As you can see from the pictures (small, black, broken plastic) , the molded plastic screw inserts are very weak and fragile. Just way too small and flimsy to keep things connected with any integrity.
These headphones have only been sitting on a headphone stand for the past 5 weeks. Not used in that time, as I've been listening to my Quads. Without the molded plastic extensions, the screws used are to short to catch and tighten.
I had to hit 3 different hardware stores to find screws this small. Without the plastic molds, I had to find some that were a little longer. I bought several for when the other side fails. I'm just happy it was an easy fix, as I still adore these cans. My advice would be to treat and use these very gently.
Odd. I think people are going for something other than sound quality. I will compare them any day to the Focal Utopia I have and other top of the line phones, they are right there though they have a little more natural top end compared to the Utopia, that can induce a tiny bit of the metallic Beryllium.
I think they are at a tough price point. Much better than the cheap stuff, but likely can't hang with the $1K headphones. We hear lots of comments about how they punch above their weight. Do they? Maybe for some people and not others.
They without a doubt are as good as any 1K phones and as good as some costing 4K. The issue is, they don't cost enough out the gate so people think the lesser of them. Too bad for that type of mind set. I saw the same thing happen with a nice sports car in the 1970s. Poor sales, then they made a couple of small cosmetic changes that amounted to nothing but raised the price and wham, out the door they went. Sad.
