pkcpga
1000+ Head-Fier
I have a couple pair of Audeze’s, love my LCD 4’s higher ohm originals, but I’d still have to disagree with you, companies like Focal create new models like the mg or the 2020 version when they make a change to their headphone. Audeze really needs to add a year or model number or something so customers know what they are getting when ordering their headphones from a website. The website does not provide the customer with the serial number for each headphone listed, so the customer has no idea which model they are buying. Which in my opinion is a very bad business model and makes me think twice about continuing to buy Audeze products without demoing the exact headphone I’m buying first. Even with HiFiMan, V2 or 2020 version, which at least gives the customer the information they need to confidently make a purchase.The last thing I'd want is for the takeaway from this thread to be that they should stop improving things - or at least, I hope that's not the spirit of the feedback. But this is also why I think it makes sense to just come out with a 'model years' approach. I would agree that the revision stuff is confusing, and they could do a better job of communicating which version sounds like what (and adding measurements as Metal571 pointed out). But something else seems to be missing from this discussion and it's that no company seems to want to address this type of stuff. Small revisions seem to detract from customer confidence, and while many (if not most) companies do it, nobody except Audeze seems to be willing to admit it. Now, granted the differences in this case are significant - enough to warrant a clear demarcation for which version you may have - and we can only assume that this trend could continue. So at this point I really see no reason not to adopt a naming scheme and launch cycle that reflects that.
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