They aren't custom LEMO, I don't know why people keep saying that, they're ODU Mini-Snap.

Who told you 60s/70s amps were good? All the best amps I know of are either 90s or modern.

The Z10e, I've heard nothing but praise for, but CRBN I have not. I would really demo it against other well regarded stats before buying.

Well it doesn't damage Stax anyway, I wouldn't think it would here either. Still, it's a very annoying thing to have to just deal with. It's fixable through driver design, but that obviously doesn't help here.

This is the sound of air pressure moving the dust cover and diaphragm. Those leather pads create a better seal than whatever you were using before, and the air pressure inside the cups is shifting the films around. On Stax it's know as "Stax fart".

The ESP95X is sensitive to dust, Stax are not. Draping any sort of plastic covering over the headphones when not in use should be plenty, but often the ESP95X/ESP950 come with dust in the driver from the factory and it'll eventually shift into a position where it causes squealing. In that case, giving them a hard tap can dislodge the dust, and hopefully it'll settle in a place where it isn't causing noise.

That being said, electrostatic headphones are most sensitive to dust when in use, the fields created attract it, so *shrug*, Koss should really be more careful when assembling them, and fully seal their drivers.

If you want to use an air purifier to get rid of dust, you're going to be looking at something large and intended for medical or scientific purposes I think, no HEPA filter I've ever tried has done anything noticeable to the amount of dust in this house.

Electrocuted? I'd be willing to say it's close enough to a 0% chance to just call it 0%.

Shocked? Absolutely, has happened to me a couple times.

Electrocution means you die from it, shocks are anything else.

The Dioko didn't exist when I got my Timeless, and looking at comparison graphs, it would not have helped at all, I'd still need to EQ the bass down by the same amount, the graphs end up at the same spot at 20hz. All that would have changed is the center frequency of the filter.

No, I use Musicolet on Android, and it has an EQ built in.

Edit: I use the clear tips with the yellow inside.

I had to EQ the bass down because I personally enjoy flat bass, but after that and finding the tips that fit me, there's nothing else to complain about. (And I bet most people aren't complaining about too much bass)

Enjoyment of music caused listening to it nearly every waking hour, it was inevitable I'd care about how it's being reproduced at some point.

That sounds like it's taking mic input, compressing its dynamic range, and playing it through the headphone?

In my 10+ years of experience with headphone communities, neutral definitely is not what most people enjoy, give them a headphone that perceptually has all frequencies at roughly the same volume, and itll get called boring by the majority. Whenever I see someone call a headphone neutral, it's almost always a little v shaped at the very least.

Not neutral is definitely easier to engineer though. Headphones in particular, by nature, don't start out flat, and often fight you every step of the way if you do try to coerce them into being flat. A fix one thing, 3 more go wrong kind of thing, every change you make has cascading effects. Speakers are far easier to work with if neutral is your only goal.

Thats the dream isn't it... Unfortunately from an engineering standpoint, neutral fr + no time domain problems is very hard to do, which is why there are few of them, and why headphones that are close tend to be more expensive.

>Neutral is what you want buddy.

Definitely not what everyone wants. Or most people, honestly.

Distortion is a threshold type measurement, the THD of most headphones is below the threshold of audibility everywhere but bass sometimes, and 3-4k most of the time, because most dynamics and planars have jank there.