Welcome to the rabbit hole! You are correct in thinking things can get better, but you have a nice set of headphones now.

> Gotta remember to keep that crown screwed down though lol.

Done! thanks lol

Nobody who shells out that kind of money on cables is willing to admit that he is that wrong.

what’s a iem?

Conversely, for the price, I'd say the build is excellent.

Ultra high end Cables…the biggest scam in audio. I have a Monster Power branded power strip that reminds me every time.

The whole getting collabs thing wildly skews points of interest here. How do you know he isn't intentionally favoring brands that have worked with him in order to get more collabs with them? How do you know he's reviewing products that compete directly with his collabs fairly? Not reviewing the products he helped make should be given and not some kind of "look i'm not biased" statement.

Ayooo, that's a solid test album!

Why wav over aiff? Isn't It basically the same thing but with the ability to store meta-data?

Believe it or not, it can happen again. I upgraded from a pair of DT990 pros to the Drop + DCA Aeon X opens a few days ago, and I've just been listening to hours and hours of music since then. It's not as big an upgrade, to the Beyerdynamics' credit, they get you like 90-95 percent of the way to where the Aeons are, but that little bit makes a lot of difference. Now I'm investigating the idea of getting a modest dac/amp with a balanced output, to see if I can hear anything new.

It's a great entry to automatics as the older Seiko 5s start to become absurdly expensive.

For a dive watch it's got very reasonable dimensions & the build quality/finish makes it look fantastic for an affordable piece.

Gotta remember to keep that crown screwed down though lol.

have you tried using snake oil tho?

I'm on another audiophile board that does not allow you to call out people with their cable bs. I won't say the name but it's a renowned music producer.

Yeah, of course it’s a joke, probably his sponsors pay him at least 10 times that price to move tiers. If u think his opinions/recommendations are completely unbiased by money then u are naive, his value is his graphs not the ranks, for they are easily manipulated.

Possibly. Off the top of my head, the collabs I can remember:

1. blessing 2 dusk: I think he still has the blessing 2 at 3* value on his ranking list

2. 7hz dioko: the 7hz timeless was at 3* value on the list, and I don't think he's updated it to include the LETSHUOER S12 yet (pretty common theme going forward)

3. truthear x crinacle zero: he made a video about this one, but it's not on the list. tbh I'm not sure what competes with this, but there's been a massive explosion of budget IEMs recently and none of them are on the list, so I'm really not sure what to compare it to

4. 7hz Salnotes Zero: he made a video about this one too, but it kinda blew up in popularity before he made a video on it, because it was the first post moondrop chu budget IEM that matched its tuning and had a removable cable. it's not on his list either, along with any of its competitors (wan'er, Quarks DSP, cadenza etc) and the only one on his list currently in this realm is the Moondrop Chu with a 3* value rating too.

I don't really know what else he's done, I guess something in the $200 range and something above $1k? But so far it seems like he's been pretty impartial about not letting his collabs influence his ratings, and I hope that kinda sticks with the revised list. It would definitely be suspicious if he rates all the budget IEMs as 2 star for example and just says "worser than the 7hz zero", but I think if he just compares them with each other and excludes the 7hz zero (as an example) then it's pretty legit

I remember installing viper4android and using my leg g3 stock earbuds. These were the days. And I actually thought it was better.

okay, thanks.

I saw some videos were people fill that cavity with super glue or something like that's i thought they did that so they prevent the cables from snapping

openbacked will help you hear your girlfriend when she needs you /copium

I've used the 6XX for years, i should have tried the 600 before haha

It probably came like that so it shouldn't happen again if it's resoldered the correct way

I share an office with my fiancee. She prefers using her sound bar.

I have to use IEMs when we're both in the office

Sorry, I just saw that it was in the description.. I'm surprised to find a complaint about the stock headband, it's pure comfort to me.

well that sounds easily enough, I'll see if I can find someone to do the job for me for cheap, but that's another problem on it's on.

once fixed, how do you think I can prevent this from happening again?

Is this the political position of each codec?

This sub on life support after reading this comment.