Recent content by bidn
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Dan Clark Audio Stealth Review, Interview, Measurements
Thank you for this information, but in the context of ear pads, "taped" is not clear enough for me. Could you please clarify it, esp. re. the following questions ?: - Are the pads directly (immediately) detachable? If not, how much effort and time would it take to remove the existing ones and...- bidn
- Post #152
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Dan Clark Audio Stealth Review, Interview, Measurements
What? Really, I can't believe it! Then it is a real pity, to succeed at delivering a FR sticking so well to the latest iteration of the Harman target, and yet to fail with such basic practical design issues! Hopefully they will come up with a revision providing detachable and genuine leather...- bidn
- Post #142
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Dan Clark Audio Stealth Review, Interview, Measurements
In my experience they don't last longer than 6 months of regular use. I can understand the use of fake, vegan leather ear pads on bluetooth headphones (re. contraints to keep the price under a few hundreds dollars, so to save every single dollar), but absolutely not on premium, so expensive...- bidn
- Post #134
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Focal Clear headphones
Hi, Here is Focal's official introduction video at youtube, published today : ( I am not sure whether it is any or much different from Focal's video for the Clear MG Pro though)- bidn
- Post #9,215
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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Poll: Your Favorite Amp with the Utopia?
Hi Stereo Skunk, being one of the HPA4 owners, and having ordered the Utopia directly from France shortly after they were released (luckily because it took a lot of time after their release for them to be distributed where I live), I have owned the Utopia since about their release, I can share...- bidn
- Post #17
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Audeze Euclid Closed-Back Planar IEM
It looks to me that Audeze has done a lot of things right with this Euclid IEM: - unlike the LCD i4 and i3, it is closed = what is normally sought after for IEMs - the frequency response curve seems much closer to what is expected for high fidelity, as shown by Crinacle, compared to the LCD i4...- bidn
- Post #94
- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
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Focal Utopia General Discussion
Three new Focal headphones should be launched in 2021, this year, at different times... Big renewal... I know more, from different sources, but promised not to disclose ... Start saving money for the last one of those ...- bidn
- Post #13,816
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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T+A Solitaire P planar magnetostatic
I on the opposite finds this disclaimer extremely suspicious, because he precisely avoids to say that he bought all the expensive gear with his own, independently and hardly earned money. I used to trust such sites in the past, until I realised I was misled about my purchases. You might think...- bidn
- Post #268
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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T+A Solitaire P planar magnetostatic
Hi Musicalhead, Your very interesting comment (and other similar comments about your contacts with headphone manufacturing companies (e.g. like you mentioned once about Warwick audio on the Open End forum) for whose products you manage to write your long, eloquent and nicely positive...- bidn
- Post #266
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Focal Utopia General Discussion
By the definition of high-fidelity, the prime and most essential requirement of high-fidelity is a neutral representation of the audio signals. (And the name of the present site is a word play with headphone and high-fidelity). Let's look at measurements : The grey line represents...- bidn
- Post #12,901
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HIFIMAN Arya - Arya Stealth - Arya Organic :: Impressions Thread
Hi there, catching up from my summer break, I saw a discussion at the beginning of Aug. re. the drivers of the Arya vs those of the HE1000 v1 and v2. I think that you may be interested in the following. When FR curves comparisons were freely accessible on crinacle site, I then set and captured...- bidn
- Post #2,347
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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RME ADI-2 DAC Thread
Hi, the latest revision of the RME ADI 2 FS, with the AK4493 replacing the AK4490 (BTW I understood AKM stopped producing the AK4490, so once RME's stock would run out, they would have to use the superceeding chip): a few dB SQ improvements for the DAC, but the SQ of the amp part measured a...- bidn
- Post #2,364
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Audeze LCD-4z - Impressions Thread
Yes SuperTime, but it will take you a lot of stress and trouble before you see your money back again. I have already seen this scammer last year on amazon.de, selling all kinds of electronic devices or appliances for fantastic prices, usually using only one or two prices., with shop names...- bidn
- Post #1,505
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Perun electrostatic headphone impressions
Thank you for your nice words! Over a month and a half, I have come to love the Perun more and more, they have become my second favorite headphone after the Utopia. I find them to be the best, among those I own, for long listening sessions, they feel very natural sounding while being...- bidn
- Post #98
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HIFIMAN Arya - Arya Stealth - Arya Organic :: Impressions Thread
Re. the Arya, it fits very well that you don't listen to vocal classical (like usually Hifiman headphones, it has some recession between 1 and 2 kHz, making e.g. high, female voices sometimes less realist), this shouldn't be much of an issue for you. You are welcome. I think that there is...- bidn
- Post #1,641
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)