Cool. EQ increases bass for free tho.

Please tell me you didn't fall for their snake oil cables as well.

Meze Empyrean pads are also magnificent but cost 110 bucks less. And they even have magnets for quick swapping.

My lcd 2 classics had a problem when I bough them too, they had some kind of junk left in the left ear cup that kept rattling around, but the place where I bought them from resolved it quite well and now they work like magic; a couple months in there are no other problems

Pepper your angus.

Well there are two things that go into that:

1. As it retains to my comment. It wasn't about the headphone it was about his methodology and laziness. He is well aware that industry standard practice is multiple seatings and using an average and for good reason. But no no no, not for good ole "Mr. Measurements", he trusts his ears, they are afterall, so well trained that they are registered pieces of scientific equipment. Let me repeat that, "Mr. Objectivity" doesn't use the industry standard practice but instead uses his ears because he is too lazy to do multiple seatings. Should we get into the levels he listens at and how much hearing loss he must have suffered at this point? No? Are his ears not susceptible like us mere mortals?
2. Whether having that high of a level of distortion is another thing. I am not here to defend Abyss and it does seem strikingly high. But it always comes back to one important thing, is it audible? Well as someone that has owned the Diana V2, and moved on from it because it wasn't their taste, it is 100% inaudible. I even played around with EQ a lot on that headphone even adding >+6db bass shelfs and still, absolutely nothing. So the question is, why if it is not audible, does he hammer the point home and compare <$50 headphones to them saying they are the worse than those even if they were the same price? Why did he double down on everything and try to use big words to make himself not look like a hack? I don't know. What I do know is that Amir is a fraud and has been proven so many times. None of this would matter if he didn't claim to be an objectivist and all about the measurements when his own laziness doesn't even allow for him to do the bare minimum. But as it stands he keeps preaching and thus, he deserves to be exposed.

At the end of the day, I traded mine for an LCD-5 and would never go back. Although they did have a naturalness to their midrange that I had never heard before and still never since. I don't even know how to describe it other than it just felt like the singer was truly in the room with me I was in the room with the singer when I closed my eyes. It was the first time music videos annoyed me because I could tell the room the instruments were recorded in was not the same room the video was shot in because the reverberation of the room was all wrong. I have never experienced anything else that had that quality.

Assless, I presume...

I was there for all of it. I don't see why its just this headphone that couldn't be measured properly and he measured two of them and they both produced different levels of distortion and bass.

Dance

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Again, you don’t have to buy it. I'm definitely never complained about certain cars being overly expensive or watch, for example. It's a products for people with money, why should I care? If you want something consumer friendly you just buy a consumer friendly product, that's it.

Yes and I'm sure you've never once criticized the price of an expensive item you didn't desire, I'm such a complainer.

Just as I'm sure you've never questioned a companies decision to make something less consumer friendly and proprietary

Sounds like you got a defective pair or something. They are not tinny at all. Very warm and bassy

Shower

Is it a bad thing? It's your choice in the end to buy or not to buy a product, but you even don’t have it but yet complaining about it, LOL! If a niche product company decide to make exclusive stuff for their premium product, it's their right to do so.

forgive me if I am interpreting your tone incorrectly but it seems like you might be a bit deep in the rabbit hole from the way u are talking about these pads.

Your money is your money but my question is that have you tried EQ-ing beforehand? Because I feel that the bass boost you get from these pads could be easily EQ-ed to your liking.

> It is a upgrade .

I agree. They are my new daily driver.

Edit: ^Psst, ^it ^might ^not ^be ^safe ^for ^us ^Abyss ^owners ^here. ^We ^might ^have ^to ^head ^over ^to ^/r/headphoneporn

Amir got made to look a fool over that controversy and was rinsed clean by the audio community. He was proved to be a pseudoscientist that only cares about consistency when it’s easy for him. Don’t misremember what happened in the end.

I didn't know "the Abyss" was one of Detroit's nicknames 🙂

An alternative to the hole in back is a hole in the top which can be hidden under the puck light

Find a comfortable spot that you can lay/sit down for hours

White latex caulk, smoothed over with a wet plastic card will hide that.

This is more for once they arrive. Sometimes first impressions of headphones can be weird until you fully understand what the tuning is going for and with what kind of audio they pair well with. Eventually you develop an ear for it. Give them time.

Abyss has used magnets to secure their pads for the AB-1266 OG’s in about 2013 or so not for sure of the time frame but close to ten years now. So it is not like people have not had a chance to replicate them.
The thing is there are a lot more HD-650’s and Sundara’s out there than Abyss Diana’s and you can find pads for them easily and they both use very different mountings to secure them . Pretty hard to adapt those to the Diana’s and vise versa.
While you think $260 is crazy for pads I get it but to mod something for a very unique headphone like these the time and labor would be so much more.
You might believe that they designed them so no one else can make easy to replicate ones.
They pop off and on in seconds why doesn’t everyone do it this way ?

Just play your favorite songs...

Get those smile muscles limbered up.