[ardilla]

or paper.. paper dosen't crack.
 

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I'll repeat: the next generation LCD-2s will be plastic and made in Asia.

 
 

 

[Loevhagen]

Audeze is about wood. If it becomes metall, plastic, composite or carbon it looses it soul.

$0.02

 

[BoogieWoogie]

 
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Audeze is about wood. If it becomes metall, plastic, composite or carbon it looses it soul.
$0.02

 
Give me an HD800 type of material every day, intact forever. 

 

[ardilla]

The HD800 is the one headphone I've owned that I was the most afraid to drop.. Didn't test it, though. Just felt very flimsy in a way. 
 
HD650 or T1 is a total different story. I'm sure they'd take a 5 meter fall without noticing. Didn't try that either.
 
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Give me an HD800 type of material every day, intact forever. 

 
 

 

[BoogieWoogie]

 
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The HD800 is the one headphone I've owned that I was the most afraid to drop.. Didn't test it, though. Just felt very flimsy in a way. 
 
HD650 or T1 is a total different story. I'm sure they'd take a 5 meter fall without noticing. Didn't try that either.
 
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I don't think headphones should be made thinking in droping resistance but I would be happy with something that won't crack from nothing.

 

[Loevhagen]

I would think it IS indeed possible to keep the wood, and avoid it cracking. Wood utranks any other material wrt. the geuine feeling.

 

[obzilla]

 
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The HD800 is the one headphone I've owned that I was the most afraid to drop.. Didn't test it, though. Just felt very flimsy in a way. 
 

 
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While flimsy is not the word I would use, it lacks a certain heft.
My LCD2s are cracked, yet I am much more cautious when handling my HD800s. 
 
And having seen older used pairs, the paint chip scenario is frightening.

 

[Windsor]

The LCD-2 are like wearing a warm, cozy pair of slippers: You may not feel every detail of the floor with your feet but they sure feel comfy to use.

 

[jerg]

 
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Audeze is about wood. If it becomes metall, plastic, composite or carbon it looses it soul.
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Yep Audeze is stuck with wood for life (what she said); note how Hifiman backed out as fast as possible after its initial run of HE-5 woodies and the cracking issues, very wise lol.

 

[Loevhagen]

Yupp, but Audeze have a more imprsessive momentum than the artificial headphones...

 

[Devarika Woulf]

I've dropped my LCD-2 R.2 Rosewood twice on rug from my desk (BECAUSE OF THE STUPID STOCK CABLE! 

) and no crack, luckily. Now that I have my Q 5 Ft, no more tangling. 

 

[Loevhagen]

If "Q 5 Ft" = 1.5 meter we got the same and selectd the same for the very same reason, I guess - get tangled in the music and not the cable. 

 

[obzilla]

 
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I've dropped my LCD-2 R.2 Rosewood twice on rug from my desk (BECAUSE OF THE STUPID STOCK CABLE! 

) and no crack, luckily. Now that I have my Q 5 Ft, no more tangling. 

 
The cracks rarely come from misuse (dropping, etc), more so from general humidity changes.

 

[Devarika Woulf]

 
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If "Q 5 Ft" = 1.5 meter we got the same and selectd the same for the very same reason, I guess - get tangled in the music and not the cable. 

 

 
The 'phones dropped because the stock was too long, around 7 or 8 feet, and kept getting caught under my chair's wheels or on the arm and you what happens then! Even if the stock was only 5 foot, it still is much more capable of triangulation than the Q, for me anyway. The stock cable sucks.
 

 

[The Monkey]

 
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Yupp, but Audeze have a more imprsessive momentum than the artificial headphones...

 
What does that even mean?