Oops. Measurement wise the K371 wipes the floor with this device, for what? 2% of its price?
Crazy, isn't it? One of the best things about this site is the way it has exposed many pieces of very expensive gear that simply don't perform any better than much less expensive stuff. In some cases the more expensive product is actually worse. A good example is two Hifiman headphones Amir tested recently. One was $3K and one was ~$400 IIRC. The $3K model performed, if anything,
worse than the cheaper model.
Objective data doesn't tell the whole story- Measurement technology is under development too- but while good measurements don't always equate to good sound, bad measurements nearly always predict bad sound. Generally, I'll trust someone who knows how to use test equipment over someone who knows how to use a thesaurus.
The other thing this site has exposed is the near-total absence of correlation between price and performance in many product categories. As far as headphones go, Sennheiser opened the floodgates years ago, shocking everyone by introducing the HD800 for a mind-boggling $1500. In today's 'deep end' market, that headphone looks like a bargain. Here we have $5K for a headphone whose graphs look like a 3 year old's first crayon drawing? Today's headphone market has fully embraced the statement by the late Brian Cheney of VMPS loudspeakers that "The price
is the product." It would be one thing if you got even marginally better performance for that stack of cash, but in many cases the opposite is true.