[goldwerger]

IKEA already beat you to it buddy

I'll be calling my lawyers

 

[wkesquire]

I'll be calling my lawyers

Someone ask for a lawyer?

 

[DenverW]

There were still Wooly Mammoths roaming the Earth when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.

I love little tidbits of trivia like this!

I feel like I'm old enough to remember that...

Also, I feel like this thread has derailed, but in such a fun, positive way...

 

[goldwerger]

This female vocal blues recording has a wonderful sense of holographic sound stange on the Caldera. Give it a spin..

 

[robo24]

I feel like I'm old enough to remember that...

Also, I feel like this thread has derailed, but in such a fun, positive way...

I'd contribute something, but I'm too busy with all my pad softener rolling. It's interesting, one of them is neon green and I feel it really makes the softened pads bright, while another is brown, and I get a darker sound with that pad softener. Just when I thought I'd reached end game, I'm excited that there's a whole new category to purchase!

 

[idairyou]

Sounds great on the Caldera.

 

[Deleeh]

Marblecake walnut Caldera, what a natural beauty!
Visually they are much darker in person than on the picture. The wood lights up nicely in sunlight and the figures/grain really pop. Great contrast with the steel grills also.

I'm really amazed about the resolution and the adaptive staging capabilities. Especially pad rolling changes the staging alot. Also how open the headphone is compared to my dynamics.

Pad rolling is fun also:

Cowhide pads relax and warm up the tonality. Staging is intimate. Very easy listening with these.

Stock pads are the most resolving, a little bright with wrong choice of tubes and punchy low-end.

Thick pads are my favourite so far. Treble and mids are brought down a bit. Staging becomes 3D similar to the VO, that's very addicting. This is like a hyper detailed VO, but not overly laid back.

For wood impact I don't hear resonances with 1200janka. Low-end is also not thin like a hard wood VO. It's a good balance of smoothness and fast transients.

For amplification a powerful solid-state might drive the Caldera to its full potential. The Cayin HA-3A is a good match also. I like low impedance most for a punchy low-end so far. Mid impedance takes away a little low-end punch but doesn't change tonality and decay like with a dynamic.

Overall this a highly resolving flagship headphone. ZMF house sound is beautifully integrated in the planar driver. It's a great contrast to my more euphonic ZMF dynamics.
Everything is just a first impression and the headphone is not burned in yet.

Thank you @zach915m for this wonderful headphone and opportunity to grab a canjam set. It's a masterpiece to complete my collection.

Stunning Renexx,have fun with the pretty thing.

 

[KlaraKlang]

Bliss arrived me today, now i have my personal Endgame, more is more expensiv

 

[Leto Dal]

Bliss arrived me today, now i have my personal Endgame, more is more expensiv

Beautiful! How do you like them with Holo stack? Waiting for mine right now, cant wait to try with Bliss and May

 

[KlaraKlang]

Beautiful! How do you like them with Holo stack? Waiting for mine right now, cant wait to try with Bliss and May

I have the Bliss 2 hours right now, all i can say right now, all is on point... have to try a couple hours more, give me 200-300 hours...i hope you don't need wait to long for your Bliss

 

[Leto Dal]

I have the Bliss 2 hours right now, all i can say right now, all is on point... have to try a couple hours more, give me 200-300 hours...i hope you don't need wait to long for your Bliss

I have my bliss for 3 weeks now, a blast with Verite Open. Have fun! My Caldera should arrive sometime this week..

 

[KlaraKlang]

I have my bliss for 3 weeks now, a blast with Verite Open. Have fun! My Caldera should arrive sometime this week..

Have fun with the Caldera, spend him a lot of time

 

[XVampireX]

Seems like ZMF wants to keep me waiting cause I already have a good setup, got an update that they are supposed to ship to my dealer NEXT week apparently, got this update yesterday, hmm

 

[Leto Dal]

Seems like ZMF wants to keep me waiting cause I already have a good setup, got an update that they are supposed to ship to my dealer NEXT week apparently, got this update yesterday, hmm

Yeah feel you bud. Similar situation in my case, order took around 10 weeks with a vendor. Apparently many vendors promise fast turn around time since “the order is already placed long time ago” but usually those are bulk orders and ZMF got to finish all the headphones from the order before they ship out. This seem to result sometimes in much longer order times compared to ordering directly from ZMF.

 

[TheMiddleSky]

Tonight's playlist:

She is just a Songwriter, Singer, Multi-Instrumentalist, and Record Producer. Perhaps also a videographer and car mechanic but i'm not sure.