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Hebolo t1_iu5p14e wrote
Reply to comment by TheBatiron58 in Honest question, did we hit peak headphone a while back? by Yammy_Lyfe
Yeah. They are pretty close aside from the high treble basically where the Etymotics lack some resolution.
Hebolo t1_iu5nzzp wrote
Reply to comment by XxDankSaucexX in Honest question, did we hit peak headphone a while back? by Yammy_Lyfe
Well, I agree that the S12 is insane, but the MDR-EX1000 had an MSRP around $500 and IMO may still be the best (I'm saying this while also owning and regularly using KSE1200 and LCDi3).
Hebolo t1_iu5jyhk wrote
What headphones do you have? For open-backs, maybe.
The Sennheiser HD800 came out in 2009 and are still near TOTL. The Stax SR007 were already out since 1998 and are arguably better. The SR009 came out in 2011 and I think are going to be slightly better with EQ. (The bass responds better to EQ. I haven't tested it myself, though.) The HiFiMan Susvara (released about 5 years ago, in 2017) are also arguably better. The Sennheiser HE-1 has been out since about 2016?
We could still get better-tuned Stax in the future (top-tier resolution with top-tier tuning, instead of near-top-tier resolution with top-tier tuning like with the HE-1). There's still slight room for improvement even by current standards.
Closed-back headphones have very much still been getting better, with the Focal Stellia and ZMF Verite Closed released in 2019.
Hebolo t1_iu638o9 wrote
Reply to comment by TheBatiron58 in Honest question, did we hit peak headphone a while back? by Yammy_Lyfe
Volume, not necessarily resolution.