OK, I guess I didn’t get your point. I fail to see what you are refering too, going trough the thread, I don’t read much praise and love for focal, it’s a unrecommended headphone, rightfully so with obvious Quality control issue, no green lighting here, all have been said is an other sample may be different, It is not a good thing. I get that you don’t like focal. I’m ok with this, mine sound good, I’m ok with the price I paid mine but I haven’t measured them, don’t know if they have issues but it doesn’t excuse the fact that these have. If anything, for what it’s worth, it’s a much more robust built than my Fostex th-x00, which broke and got replaced. Now I still see some bias in your rant, It became clearer with this honest and maybe justified second explanation. bias like “ when something goes well from asian manufacturers, we have accusation of golden samples” There may have been some isolated ones, I don’t remember everybodies post, but It’s definitely not the “pulse“ I get from this community, Actually I see Asian brands quite celebrated generally. By far the most compagny that have been bombarded with this nonsense is Schiit and they are not Asians, I seem to not get the same feel, but sure, there are irrational hate right left and center, I just don’t see it as generally targeted a single way