definitely endgame. the utopia is TOTL but some people actually prefer the clears over the utopias.

it was still sunday in australia when OP posted this

it's not monday

it's been years since i've bought from them, but their return policy is fraud. i bought a brand new headphone and they sent me a brand new headphone. it was in mint condition. i tested it for 3 days and decided that it wasn't my taste. during this time, the return policy said something like "10-25% restocking fee depending on the condition of the item" or something like that. the headphone that i returned was in mint condition with no damage and i even wiped it with a slightly wet cloth. they automatically resorted to deduct the max restocking fee which i personally knew was utter bullshit.

modmic?

maybe AI can automatically EQ that trash tier headphone into something decent

not taylor swift. my bright ass aryas will make my ears bleed

this shade of wood is makes it look like a cheap toy. it feels like those toy guns with orange tips. should've used brown wood and not this orange color

4.4 is definitely best for audiophiles while XLR is easily F tier. maybe an actual professional can take advantage of an XLR cable for durability/reliability reasons

i am not a fan of schiit. they have good warranty and their products have good value, but the quality of their amp and dacs are not so good. their amps smell like burnt plastic and their dacs are infested with QC issues

it will work good enough but is not ideal when getting the most out of the headphones. if you have the new updated macbook air with the m2 chip, then that should be very well off

if it even has 2/10 sound quality, it would be better than the shokz headphones

i disagree. you're supposed to subject him to the lowest of low-fi headphones ever and then slowly work your way up to the hd600 which he would then have a greater appreciation for. if the he-1 was the only headphone you ever wore, you would never appreciate it

mics that have sticks coming out of it to get closer to your mouth tend to have better audio quality than headphones that have an integrated mic that you can't obviously see

if a company can make a closed back version of an open back headphone and it sounds about right, then that is a success. ZMF pulled it off with the verite which is great. however, sennheiser failed massively with the HD820

anyone know how these compare to the HE 1? if the HE 1 was a 100/100 and the HD6XX was a 0/100, what score would these have?

truth to be told, stereo is 99% of the battle when it comes to audio. imaging and soundstage play an extremely low role in gaming performance. if you take the best CSGO team in the world and gave one team a bunch of HD800S and an exact clone of that team a bunch of $10 stereo sony earbuds that you can buy from walmart, i would expect the hd800s team to have maybe 50.5% chance of winning.

Schiit amps don't sound like shit, but it does smell like shit

it's actually pronounced like the word "shit".

companies should not be allowed to sell shitty hardware like this. amp/dacs usually just sit on a table without much physical movement. you should contact customer support and accuse them of knowingly selling shoddy hardware because it's the second one that died on you, and see if you can get a warranty or possibly a refund. if not, try contacting your bank and give them screenshots of both your receipts for buying this item twice and maybe a bunch of screenshots from other people having issues. see if your bank will stand by your side and force a chargeback. if not, then the best you can do is sell both your amps "as is" on ebay to recoup some of the costs.

do you have any other headphones? if so, how do these compare with your other headphones?

what do you mean "we are all depressed"? nobody in the audiophile community listens to music for too many hours. we just look at frequency response charts for too long

taylor swift's new album

gosh. i'd buy the closed version of this if it was still in stock. a closed back planar sounds like the perfect headphone for some epic boom boom while pairing it up with the hd8xx to cover all of its weaknesses. eq both of them of course.