Well, the focalās can be somewhat of an extravagant design lol, so can some audeze or like the sendyās
Fostex and denon wood cups, along with something like the higher end final Sonorous models
Zmf headphones as well, or the mrspeakers carbon fiber stuff
Have you seen rosson audio headphones? Work of art!
Well I was excluding some of the more boutique or very high end brands
Well I can throw Verum in there.
Yup that works, Klipsch HP3 and koss kph30i or ksc75 work too then
The meze 99 classic (and I guess the meze empyreans too)
I have the kph30i and ksc75.
Wait are we still talking about headphones that arenāt some dark color or just brands of headphones now
Ones that aināt dark.
Lol, I kinda see what you are talking about, but I would not say they are in the same league of design
Thereās a Jude post on the LCD-1 up on Head-fi:
From which I gleaned a few facts I hadnāt noticed elsewhere. The 90 mm driver has single-sided magnets with 13.5 Ohms impedance and 90 dB SPL at 50 mW.
Curious how the 90 mm driver size compares to the Sundara I tried to find the Sundara driver specs but failed. Apparently, the Sundara is no longer in production? Not listed on the Audeze website and searching for it on the site fails.
The sundara is hifiman, so it wouldnāt be on audezeās site
Doh. Must be due to being traumatized by the forum being down all day, lol.
New review from Steve Guttenberg
Catching up on this thread. Going back to earlier comments on metalās review, I have to say that I donāt find him to be an impartial judge of Audeze products. His preference always seems to be the Audeze when comparing it to other manufacturers, and when comparing between Audeze headphones he always prefers the more expensive model (LCD2 fazor to LCD2C for example). Which is fine. We all have our preferences, but unlike @marcgii Iām not surprised they gave him an early (first?) review. He has maybe been their biggest YouTube champion since Iāve been watching the regular cast of characters in the review scene.
Iām glad Steve Guttenberg likes them though. I like Audeze, and I think theyāve needed a sub $500 headphone in their lineup to try to introduce more people to what they do. I think Hifiman does a good job of this, although having had two of their low end headphones fall apart on me makes me hesitant to dish out $1k+ for their higher end models. So I guess there are positives and negatives to both approaches.
What makes me curious is how much Steve Rossonās departure has affected Audezeās new products and what it means for their future direction. As soon as he leaves, they introduce lighter variations of several of their headphones, and now this low cost option. He, on the other hand, releases his first headphone for $2700 with similar weight to an LCD3. Itāll be interesting to see if the trends continue or if itās just a coincidence.
Steveās got old earsā¦can we truly trust them anymore? 
I would say yes, because IMO hearing isnāt just based on the frequency range you can hear, but the experience and the active listening ability of an individual
Why you young whippersnapper. In my day we had more respect fer our elders. Whatās the world coming to any more? (lol)
Steve G isnāt hearing anything above 10 kHz, so look elsewhere to check whether there are any issues up there.
While people may not be able to physically hear that high, you would be surprised how many audio engineers that edit and master audio have very poor hearing ability and are still able to master an audio range where they canāt even physically hear it anymore and have it sound great. Your brain makes up for the lack of hearing range
upscaling sucks! fake soundā¦ 
