>they're BETTER for the average consumer than any wired IEMs

and? You know what was also for the average consumer? Apple wired earpods that came free with your phone. There has always been 2 distinct markets that have coexisted and these markets will continue to exist because the niche of audio is exactly that, a niche. There will always continue to be high end products like the Focal Utopia or Hifiman Susvara because they don't need to appeal to the general market and have been getting by just appealing to the niche because no average consumer will ever spend thousands on headphones.

Isn't this meme like half a year late? The 7hz zero came out in like August

The blue looks black in most lighting. So much so that I thought I'd received black headphones when I first got it. You only see the blue if you shine a light directly on it.

I completely thought this was a straggler meme monday post that got popped up for me on a tuesday