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    How do headphone amplifiers differ from speaker amps?

    I disagree from a form-factor perspective alone.
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    What was most interesting to me about that anecdote was that people inside Harman wanted to emulate the sound of Dr Dre headphones. If you want to sell a lot of headphones, just copy the most successful ones, right? That’s the difference between people who actually care about what they do and...
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    Resolving Measurement Issues with SONCOZ SGD1 DAC

    The best way to fool people is by giving them real hard facts. All you have to do is leave one key fact out.
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    Subjective experience can be scientifically studied, but it can’t always be measured. I can measure how long it takes me to get from home to work, but I can’t measure how long I experience the trip as being. This holds for both time and distance. And of course objectivity is a modification of...
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    Hifiman HE400i Review (planar headphone)

    ”The rubbing of bows on string instruments was always particularly beautiful on these headphones.” That might very well be why I enjoyed them so much with classical music. This headphone had a very weird tonality. Moreover, bass was very soft and a lot of treble energy was missing. At the same...
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    I don’t believe subjective experience varies so much that impressions are completely irrelevant. Why doesn’t Amir just skip the subjective part altogether and just let the measurements speak for themselves? IMO it’s because people would feel that something was missing from the review. At the end...
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    I've already seen the video, and I support the work Amir is doing here. My characterization of the 650 describes my experience with it and is not meant to hold any validity for others. The point of my comment is that the measurements don't change what I think of the 650 and shows the limits of...
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    Both are important. For instance, Ananda and Koss 95X measured poorly and got relatively bad reviews from Amir, while he gave the HD650 a thumbs up. Well, I owned the 650 for two years and tried over and over again to like it. Never did. That headphone left me cold. I found it atrocious for...
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    I enjoy reading initial impressions, but not because they are reliable. I think there is a case to be made for measurements possibly unfairly influencing impressions. For instance, I thought that might be the case in your Ananda review. You yourself seemed to bring up the possibility: ”Once...
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    Dan Clark Stealth Headphone Review: Best in the World? (Video)

    amirm is being a great salesman without even trying. Thanks to him, I’m convinced Stealth is my dream headphone. But the thought of paying four grand for a pair of headphone seems nuts to me.
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    Ha ha there’s another subjective difference. Flower doesn’t relax me. Just the opposite!
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    I guess I’m encouraging people to turn off the light, close their eyes, and only listen to the music. Then again, I tend to listen at night after work. By the way, I just watched your video on (non)impact of AC distortion on audio equipment. Hopefully, you saved people some money.
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    Interesting, but the point of my comment was to compare using your eyes versus not using them. If you only listen to music while using your eyes then there’s nothing to compare.
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    There's an example of how subjective experience can change the way I perceive the sound of a headphone. As a general rule, I close my eyes when listening to music, preferably in a pitch-black room. I can't listen to headphones while I'm reading or working at my computer. The sound totally...
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    Lifetime warranty is meant to ensure just that. Headphones can last decades. I have the Koss ESP95X. First pair came with all sorts of noise issues. Second pair developed same issue in very short order. Had to send them to Koss three times under their lifetime warranty, but they finally fixed...
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    Dan Clark Stealth Review (State of the Art Headphone)

    Given what the Focal Utopia and other TOTL headphones cost, $4,000 does not seem unreasonable if the Stealth is as good as the review suggests. But for this price I do expect a generous warranty. A $4,000 headphone should last a lifetime. I applaud Koss and ZMF for standing behind their products...
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    Best Headphone ASR Has Reviewed

    I think the thread might've jumped the gun when it assumed that the HD650 was Amir's top or favorite pair of headphones: To your list, I would add the Drop/Dan Clark Ether CX. I'm struck by the fact that the two Dan Clark headphones tested so well. Wonder whether it's safe to assume that the...
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    Dan Clark Audio AEON RT Review (closed headphone)

    Sean Olive on AEON 2 Noire: "I like it quite a lot. Maybe the best magnetic planar headphone I've heard to date" https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/hifiman-sundara-and-dan-clark-aeon2-noire.20329/#post-670849. A potential customer has a question for Dan (or for anyone...
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    Inside High res Music (Antonio Forcione) (Video)

    1) I'm not an audiophile. 2) I believe people will have better hearing in the future thanks to scientific advancements. 3) Even if nobody ever gets to hear anything above 20kHz, people will continue to make high-resolution recordings because it's also about the quest to capture reality as...
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    Inside High res Music (Antonio Forcione) (Video)

    Nah the actual recording is a completely different kind of historical document--for instance, a performance of a Beethoven 9th by a great conductor or a recording of a major composer conducting his own work the way Stravinsky, Hindemith, and many others have done. Given the technology is...
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