GREAT NEWS: YAMAHAS are better than anyone has right to expect...
heres my experience after 12 hours with the YAMAHAS: one night of burn in through computer and dragonfly DAC through iFI power stabilizer:
my roommate Silver, a guitarist songwriter, listening to Mark Knophler's album Privateering, disc 1, song 1 Rosebud, begins to smile
at vocal lead...then when lead guitar comes in BEGINS TO CRY from ecstatic experience with quality of sound. when song is over
says "oh my GOD, " and walks away stunned.... my experience is similar.....these phones have an sound quality (and comfort) that
puts out a field of sound way bigger than their size or price and indeed are PRICELESS for the accuracy and emotion stirring experience
that they convey. true for blues as well, Steve Miller was never so blue....on electronica still needs more burn in for Ott audio pyrotechnics to
be coherent, but still excellent..... if you care about the quality of your sound do yourself a favor and grab one of these phones
for yourself or loved ones of the holidaze... they are a TRUE DISCOVERY. this is not hype. this is the report back from the edge of ECSTATIC LISTENING. these things are performing at the level of my best headphones...they have the liquid mids of the RS1s, the bass and sub bass is right on, the soundstage of my w1000s, and rhythm of my es700s, all integrated into a single sub100$ phone. I begin to laugh when it think about what these will be after a full burn in....too good to be true, except its not...these are the real deal and more....and the comfort of the velour pads is spot on...kudos to YAMAHAs sound engineers...and this discovery thread for discovering these....Knophlers harmonica is making my head turn in circles now....but the voices and liquid guitar are making me almost weep with joy....im hearing the emotions the artist was conveying not just the sounds, and isn't that what high end audio is all about...