Careful, if the deniers read this... Still yet to hear them.
I won't spend until I guage them vs.
* Final D8000 Pro - gotta be used
Runner ups?
* HEK v2 < $1500 used by Spring?
* Audeze B stock OG LCD-4 $1700 again?
FYI: good open box deals on 800S and LCD-X 2021 over at Audio46
I own or have owned the FAudio D000 Pro, and every other set of headphones you can name.
Susvara ? sure.
LCD-R ?? of couse.
All the Dan Clark Audio? yep.
All the Audeze ? check, except for the MM-500 = no.
All the Hifiman? well, i have not yet owned the closed Sundara .
Ive heard them all, all the gears, and own some of them still.
True Audiophiles, who are into SOUND vs, the look, or the weight, or the pads, or the BRAND..... or the "can you modify it"....
Not those people.....
But people who are freaks about MUSIC and hearing all the details, obsessively.. ....will love the RAAL CA-1As.
Its a really great sound.
Will everyone love it?
Nope.
Does everyone love the ZMF Atrium and the Susvara and th FA D8000 Pro, and the HEK's...and the ZMF's , and the Sennheiser's, and the Beyerdynamics, and all the rest? Well, apparently not, if the Classified section is still up and running today.
THing is, you can't pay enough money to insure that you will love the sound of your 'new" headphones.
Plenty of Susvara buyers found that out.....
The Raal CA-1A, is a very good sounding gear that will appeal to lovers of sound, but not so much to people who need their head-gear to look 'high tech"" and expensive.