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  1. Not sure if this is the right forum for this, as it's not a source component... but then again it doesn't really fit anywhere else.

    I'm sure you know Jan Meier and his work. He just released an interesting new product, which - if anything - is certainly innovative.

    An external DSP box for headphones and speakers, with digital ins and outs, and an analog section with headphone and line outputs.

    All controls happen with physical buttons but on the digital realm, with an EQ, crossfeed (as expected), and then a number of more unique features I haven't come across before.

    More details here. I've been following the development of it via his newsletter, it's been years in the making. Nice to see it come out, and nice to see some innovation in the field.

    http://www.meier-audio.homepage.t-online.de/country.html

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  2. Personally, I always thought that this issue is overblown.

    Below is a chart of normal hearing loss with age, shown as hearing threshold db per freq per age group, for men and women. There are many versions of this same chart floating around, this particular one was recently reproduced in a Lancet article. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(21)00040-7/fulltext

     

    https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachment/935e11a4-111f-4bed-8103-f4de91a78401/gr1.jpg

     

    We know that the magic in music happens in the midrange. Sure, there is spatial information in the high frequencies etc, but honestly, we can all change eq settings / equipment / listening levels as our hearing shifts with age.

    When we are first exposed to music that we fall in love with, in our teens and younger years, it's not because we can hear what's going on at 15khz. Or even 8. We often listen with crappy speakers and headphones in those ages anyway. Is it unfortunate that we can often afford more gear as we get older and our hearing gets crappier? maybe. But all of the riffs, melodies, lines, and even harmonies I love listening to should still remain well audible in my older ages.

     

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  3. On 10/16/2021 at 7:16 AM, TMoney said:

    If you had asked me 15-20 years ago would Grado have survived to still remain a going-concern today I'd have said "no, no chance."

    Here we are in AD 2021 and they are selling pokemon headphones.

    Annnnnnd this is why I index my investments. I can't predict the future for shit.

     

    Too much hipster appeal to fail... for now.

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  4. 2 hours ago, spritzer said:

    There has only ever been one MRI designed electrostatic that I know of, the Koss ESP900 which is just a 950 with a closed housing.  I've heard that HE60's were used for this but never seen anything in the flesh, plus the HE60 headband is magnetic (plus the screws) so something had to be done about that. 

    The MRI's I've been in all had sound pipes for the audio, simple tubes with the transducers elsewhere and sounded terrible.

     

    OK. Working back on how I aquired this piece of knowledge, I suspect I've read this once about the ESP900, from which I assumed that all headphones used in MRIs are electrostatic, which was reinforced the one time I had MRI and I indeed was given headphones. Though I now realise it was a headphone connected to those tubes, essentially.

    Audio hobbyist logic in action!! 😛

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  5. The other planar-specialising brands that had their go at estats (Dan Clarke, HFM) have placed the bar rather low... and the prices of some headphones seem to be almost random at this point. Looking forward to spritzer's review.

    Also, I'm not sure what's the medical enginuity part - aren't all headsets used in MRI essentially estats, because of the magnets involved? isn't that a decades old tech by now?

  6. Finally have one on order - looking forward to it! the L700 has been dominating my head for a good 6 months or so, and made me gradually stop listening to my non-electrostats. Will be neat to have a different type of stat to complement the 700.

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  7. On 5/17/2020 at 9:19 PM, Torpedo said:

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    The lovely cassette deck I mentioned above. TBH it wasn't as good sounding as the looks would suggest. Still I recorded a ton of vinyls into cassettes with that machine.

     

    I recently picked up its lower grade sibling, nicely restored, from a local dealer and fixer, to add a tape deck to my system. I did buy it more for its looks than its sound... but who can blame me for that? :)

     

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  8. First time poster. Happy to report that this beauty is now on its way to its new home in Melbourne.

    Happy to find head-case via this purchase. I am relatively new to estats, but not to headphones. I've been mostly avoiding HF over the last few years and mostly posting about audio in a small closed facebook group - happy to find this place which shares my low tolerance of shilling culture.

    The amp will replace/sideline my current stock SRM-313. I might hang on to it, in case I ever get something with normal bias.

    In terms of headphones, the KGSSHV will feed my L700 and the Koss/Drop estat.

    Cheers everyone. I've been having fun reading through older threads, especially the critiques of poor quality hyped up products.

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