Hail

Downvotes and not a single reply, always the same thing lol

It’s a legit goat album

Angel by Massive Attack

Are the kilobuck headphones better? I mean, sure. But diminished returns already hit incredibly hard in this hobby, even before you factor in gear that far out-performs it’s price point like the Blessing 2.

I got mine on sale for like $270 from Amazon, and if I had to make an ultimate decision these things at the price I got them at is practically unbeatable.

I was recently in a position where I wasn’t listening to my “good” headphones for a week or two (moved into a new home), and after using the blessing 2 pretty much exclusively during that time just for convenience sake, I’m more inclined than ever to settle happily with them and move the rest of my gear to have funds for other hobbies honestly.

Honestly the blessing 2 is so good I don’t even miss my two kilobuck headphones while I’m wearing them.

Just insane performance for the price. Truly think I could sell my headphones and be good with the Blessing 2 forever

They’re expensive, I haven’t seen many reviews yet, and the general consensus seems to have swayed quite heavily on Campfire over the last few years.

I’m not really surprised people aren’t jumping on them with so much competition now.

See if there’s a loose hair or something between the pad and the driver? I think that normally ends up producing more of a buzzing sound, but it’s possible something got lodged in between maybe

Honestly, of all the subjective aspects of this hobby, value might perhaps be the most subjective.

And it’s certainly possible that you’ve gone beyond your threshold value-wise, which is honestly completely understandable.

Nothing wrong with it, if you were happy with what you had and don’t think the upgrade is worth it, then hey, move on and put those funds towards another hobby for sure.

Someone else has already shown his amp is more than enough to drive them.

If he’a blatantly unimpressed by them when properly driven, it’s almost certain something as minuscule as a different amp or dac is not going to change that. The slightest of changes maybe sure, but it certainly won’t be night and day, as it seems it would need to be for OP to find it worth it.

I had a similar experience with the Focal Clear which seems to use the same design.

Couldn’t do more than 20 minutes or so before the hotspot right on the top of my head was just too uncomfortable.

Could look for something like the ZMF pilot pad people use to improve comfort.

The mattress stores thing as far as I can tell is basically a meme born out of the internet wondering why every town has 4 of the same mattress store within a few blocks of each other

Considering the reasons you didn’t like the 600, I’d go out on a limb and say you should just avoid that whole series because they are all far more similar than different, and they all suffer from the same things you disliked about the 600.

50k every time Embiid inexplicably is knocked violently to the floor by someone 40+ pounds lighter than him

You said 550k, but Embiid would get there after one game

Do you genuinely think if you showed this picture to someone unfamiliar with Harmon Kardon’s logo/design aesthetics that they would be able to read what that says?

Got my LCDX 2021 from the recent B stock sale and taking them out of the case and doing my best to figure out why they’re b stock, I can’t find a single reason.

Plini and Tides From Nebula are certainly not two bands I expected to see here, nice

I think it’s more telling of how far the needle has moved in regards to spending ceilings in this hobby now.

Insane how much it’s changed in just a decade. The HD650 used to be the cream of the crop in terms of performance, and was probably considered wildly expensive at the time.

It’s practically an entry level Headphone at this point, barring consumer-targeted stuff.

Absolutely, different strokes and all, and it honestly took me a while to be sure I just wasn’t enjoying them.

My brain felt broken with the disconnect between how incredible they obviously are as headphones and how little I enjoyed having them on my head lol

This is exactly how I felt about the Focal Clear.

Put that thing on and was like “yep, this is undoubtedly the most technically proficient and highest resolution experience I’ve ever had”.

It was also undoubtedly one of the most boring ones. Absolutely nothing sounding exciting or fun to me, it was like staring at a picture taken with a camera at the highest resolution possible.

Sure I can appreciate all the details, but it’s still boring to look at imo.

Ah ok definitely misinterpreted what you were looking for then, yeah if you just want no wires at all but don’t want a TW IEM then the Fiio adaptor is probably your best bet, not sure how secure they are though depending on what you’re doing at the gym

Ok so I’m not sure how genuine you are about the “too bulky” thing, but for me personally, getting that thing out of the packaging and seeing just how compact it actually is in person even compared to what I’d heard was wild.

It truly is so, so tiny. If that’s too bulky you won’t find anything else besides the Fiio adapter things the top comment here mentions.

I don’t like the default sound, but I feel like anyone using Airpod products with an Apple source like iPad/iPhone/iMac what have you is cheating themselves if they don’t use the included accessibility options to tune them.

I for one don’t like the stock sound too much, and agree it sounds a bit hollow. My ears definitely preferred the “Balanced” setting for the tuning, was a much more neutral sound to me and I think the Max definitely smashes every other Bluetooth/anc (low bar I know) otherwise

Limited edition

The Ananda has a Bluetooth version, don’t know much about the performance though