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...

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...

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...

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)

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi PoSR77, Re. your question about power for the Arya, people listen at different volume levels (louder or lower), and different kinds of music are louder (metal) or quieter (polyphony), so without knowing how hard you listen to and to what kind of music, in my opinion nobody can give you an...

Hi rantng, it's less fun when it is revealed quickly, better wait until a few persons are caught, now I can't get anyone... Well I hope it can at least still make some people smile.

The Son et Video stores (France) have started selling the Earbuddy revolutionary Bluetooth bi-headphones (which I thought could be something to associate my wife to my hobby). They can be ordered at this page (hopefully they will not change this link) which lists their technical specs...

Hi Slaphead, I agree with your general ideas, and find it very right that you stress that the RME products belong to the pro audio world, unlike many products on this site. "High-Fidelity", as the name says, means realism, neutrality. So, by this definition, products like RME ADI-2 DAC are...

Hi, Last Saturday I received the Perun, wirth the color and patterns on the pictures above. I have been working on a review, but I don't know when I will be able to finish and post it in the section for reviews. In the meantime you may like my incomplete draft, see below. All the best, bidn...

Hi NewEve, My SP1000M produces a very high fidelity, neutral sound. If you are not looking for high fidelity but for an "artificially" thickened sound (with added harmonic repetitions of the many signals, i.e. what is called "harmonic distortion" in electronics), then you might be more...

Hi there, famous head-fier Nomax, who excels at getting insider information before anyone else, has posted the following pic on a German forum: from: https://www.open-end-music.de/vb3/showpost.php?p=319482&postcount=1157 He calls it a face lifting of the accessories. All the best, bidn

Thank you audio_1, however all these tracks related to the issue have the same sampling rate = 44,1 kHz. They do differ though by having a different (lossless compression) bitrate. Also I didn't use to have this issue with the Dave alone, but only with the combination HMS -> Dave.

Hi EndGameSearch, I didn't experience the same issue, but one which may be related when I auditioned the HMS --> Dave combo and other DAC-amp at my dealer a while ago. I reported about this audition in the Utopia thread...