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I'll check them out. The only thing I'm worried about is that once I buy them, I'm done. I'm not buying another pair probably, so if they suck I'm stuck with them and I won't know how they will sound until I'm done with the build, so I want to be really confident in what drivers I buy

So you have one?

HA! Good job.

the cables are too thin.. anemic

I put the new forgis on the jeep 🔥‼️

I actually ordered the Zen air DAC with this it's supposed to be delivered tomorrow!

Yeah, I mean if you're a kid and they make you listen to it all the time... I wasn't even interested in music back then. My mom is a pianist, and even that didn't bring me to enjoy it much.

I appreciate your shitpost comment more than the image lmao.. It's just so accurate

Fiio K5? Topping Dx3 Pro?

Do these count as entry level? At any rate they should serve you well for a long time.

Your welcome.! The next step I (and many others) would suggest is getting the ifi Zen DAC or ZEN CAN Amp (which I would suggest now if you are going to get a DAC later). They both have the XBass and 3D features. The XBass gives you a tiny bump in bass and the 3D gives a tiny bump in clarity. Best $200 ever.

Yeah. I can dig them even with stock sound but they're definitely better with some EQ to tune down that bass.

The good thing with the sonys is that I at least can't really hate them, only dislike. While I can't listen to the DT1990 without EQing the mount Beyer down, the 8kHz bump. It's too piercing.

With all due respect, there’s no such thing as too much classical music.

I use audiophile grade zips, but I guess I just appreciate music more.

As someone who loves bikes, yeah, bike prices are ridonkulous.

You can replace the lightbulbs with LEDs to brighten it up.

Use USB-C into my Ferrum Erco and my Mojó 2. Works great.

I’ll give you 10 bucks for it

The actual sound quality isn't too bad and the ANC is great. The tuning for headphones is just bad. Once you turn down the bass to a reasonable level, they're actually ok. And for someone like my friend who hadn't heard anything better, they sound amazing.

Arya Stealth

• Hifiman Store 430g
• Hifiman website 404g in the text on the right, 430g on the graphic
• New box 430g, old box 404g (both of these are Arya Stealth boxes, they both have a stealth sticker on the front)
• Amazon, 404g

Mine, actual weight is 439g. Lots of other places saying 440g, which is close enough to the actual weight.

There just isn't consistency on this, I mean even Hifiman.com has both weights listed. They even have both weights listed on the one page. They simply aren't careful about these specs at all, and they frequently copy specs from an older model and only update them (if at all) somewhat later. They re-use the boxes (which have the old specs on them) and slap a "stealth magnet" sticker on the front, so sure they have the old specs on them, unless they put a label over that too.

But sometimes the specs even just get copied onto the new packaging. Like I said, they are quoting literally 14 year old specs from a model two generations back on the HE6SE and have never bothered to update that in all these years.

People then see the initial versions of the new model had specs from the old model and now they changed and think it's actually a third model, but it's not, this is reading far too much into the specs.

You really just need 2. A good chef’s knife and a good paring knife. Then expand from there if you really get into cooking and find use cases for specialized knives.

The trick is finding a chef’s knife that you love. There’s the German style (wusthof, henckels, messermeister) known for a shape that encourages a rocking motion when cutting. They often have thick bolsters that some do not like. Makes it hard to sharpen the blade from top to base.

There’s the French style which is similar to German, but its shape is less curved. Look for knives made in Thiers.

Then there are the Japanese styles which have been very popular. Look for a gyuto (sp?), it’s a hybrid of western and eastern styles. Too many brands to list, but a good starter brand would be Tojiro DP.

Look for a forged blade and a balance that feels good to you.

Thank you, I just might try that.

Even if they made slight changes to the V2 Ananda, they likely aren't coming out with a V3, there isn't a drastic enough change that it would result in a name change. They have the most up to date Hifimsn Stealth magnets, and the V2 Ananda is relatively new and isn't getting a successor for a while.

The Arya Stealth listed the weight as 404g, the same as V2, but all reviews said the weight is around 440g. Weight is the easiest measurement of a headphone and Hifiman still didn't fix it. So this is most likely them updating their measurements.

7th acoustics proxima is pretty much it

I don't think there is a V3. It's just they updated the specs on the box at some point after releasing the Stealth Ananda. They presumably remeasured them and updated the specs at that point.

There's the OG Ananda and the V2/Stealth Ananda. That's it.

The specs were never accurate in the first place, they are often way off. That doesn't mean anything.

OG Ananda Hifiman spec 25Ω / 103dB. ASR measured at 33Ω. RAA also measured at 33Ω and 109.2 dB/V SPL / 94.4 dB/mW SPL.

So this was already way off.

HE6SE is another one, Hifiman say 50Ω, ASR and RAA both measured at 64Ω. The 50Ω number was copy pasted from the HE6, which was 50Ω, and they are still using that number on the spec for the HE6SEV2 14 years later, even though it's not.

You can read far too much into this, they are nowhere near accurate.

The drivers would have changed in the change to the stealth version. Initially, I think they didn't update the specs, or not significantly, 2Ω is very little and they kept the 103dB. Then at some subsequent point they updated them.

The weights are often off as well, it's only 40g. I think the stealth version should be heavier. They has this whole same thing with the Arya/Arya Stealth, the weight changed by about the same and there was a delay until they updated it so there are two weights generally floating around for that.

None of this stuff is that accurate and it changing a bit doesn't indicate an actual change with the headphone.

In the post you linked someone emailed Hifiman and they said "They have the same drivers. The production batch is different, the specification will be adjusted, but the sound quality remains the same."

I suspect this the change from non-Stealth to Stealth, and that they initially didn't update the specs but then decided they had better. I also do suspect the Ananda Stealth and Edition XS driver may be related, as their specs are now so similar. But I don't think there was a distinct V2 and V3.