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Duly noted....buuut, no such thing, LOL.....

I wish you well on your journey to search out which would be "best" for you. I juuust bought the HEK Stealths to compare with - and possibly replace - my Arya Stealths. What's funny is that after burning in the HEK Stealth and having it settle in nicely, I'm thinking of keeping BOTH of them, LOL...

As a HEK Stealth owner I'd say that this isn't nearly as true as some make it out to be - that is, IMHO. Often, what is described as "impactful" and "slam" in dynamic HPs is actually more often than not in reality a generous "midbass hump", that many HP and speaker manufacturers engineer into...

Here, here --- I wholeheartedly agree - though I'm one of those persons who haven't ever heard it in person. Nevertheless, I either own or have owned much of HFM's later HP lineup - starting from Sundara and ending with my newest, the HEKv2 Stealth (with the OG Ananda sitting in my storage...

No, I think we're talking about the exact same things. HFM eggos' distortion plots vary greatly depending on if you have them on your head (ie: sealed front volume) vs if you're holding them in your hands (or loosely on a measuring dummy - ie: a leaky, unsealed front volume). I can turn up the...

I wholeheartedly hear and agree that this distortion at the highest volume levels is more than likely inaudible/undetectable at the volumes that most people listen....IMO, that is......

Yeah, that's pretty much correct, IMO. I see the various Harman curves and (nearly) all of them have a huge bass hump/shelf that most regular consumers hear as "accurate".....but that I personally hear as "bloated" - that is, especially with HFM's egg-shaped cans. The pro Harman folks - when...

Very astute - and very reasonable, IMO....

That's IF said distortion is even able to be heard, qualified, and quantified. I'd wager that outside of this specialized test meant to isolate and repeat this particular "distortion" - that for most people it won't even be heard as such. As is the experience of the supermajority of Ananda Nano...

On the contrary - whether a $499 HP can be a revelation in SQ depends 100% on the listeners' prior listening experience, IMO. Ex: The HFM Sundara was my first foray into a proper planar HPs (Fostex T50rp Mk3 notwithstanding), and it netted me quite a revelatory listening experience - one that...

An SPL meter directly in between the Ananda's, the Arya's, and the HEKv2 Stealth's drivers while playing pink noise. That gives me a directly repeatable average SPL that can directly be correlated to any musical track to then equate where on the volume dial is the same SPL. This is as quick and...

This is one of the absolute dilemmas of this discussion, IMO: Those who've heard them IRL (ie: HFM's egg-shaped cans) who hear them as superb and class-leaders (again, IRL) - vs those who automatically disparage them over "high distortion" graphs, yet who haven't heard them IRL having no...

That is: At ~94, 104, and 114dB volume levels - almost 100% never a volume that even people who use wanton EQ listen at - and at which most HPs would show distortions. This is the main point of my not at all exhaustive post, LOL. Also, due to HFMs' totally non-damped diaphragms and enclosures -...

Thanks for reminding me :facepalm:, LOL - and I stand corrected. Yeah, I can see this - that is, IF one is for whatever reason EQing a ludicrous bass shelf (ie: basshead levels of ~6dB or more) on a HP that already has really decent bass - as pretty much all thes egg-shaped cans have. It's very...

"Nonetheless, as bad as these distortion figures.....look, said distortion was barely noticeable in practical listening". To me, this is pretty much the gist of the whole "distortion" matter with every HFM can you've tested, IMO. The "gist" being this: At sane levels (read as: even at an...

Is that YOU, Sharur!!!???

Great work, my dude. I was looking at a used one of these as a cheap stand-in for my other HP amps (never too many amps, LOL). One of the first things I'd do (if I did get it), would be to change out those rather harsh/threadbare-sounding NE5532s to either cheap (but smoother, IMO) OPA2134s - or...

I have read much of that thread before and I don't really agree wholeheartedly with his methodology nor his final (slanted, IMO) findings. One person's skeptic impressions doesn't apply at all to my own personal experience with different gear setups of what I've heard (hear) in person with my...

Thanks for the measurements - and great job!!! I juuuust bought a set of the XBs (about two weeks now) and it's my first go-round ever with PSB Speakers - that is, after reading nearly every recent review. They were nearly all "glowing" review impressions from what I read. When I first unboxed...

At -150 down in level? That's even lower than mouse farts (are they ant farts?), and is a non-issue for everyone who's not a signal generator (or the farting ant's wife who's put in a Dutch Oven, LOL).......