I spent the $100 for a year of Amazon prime on a second account so I could return as many headphones as I want without getting my real Amazon account blacklisted. Might be unethical, but Bezos doesnāt seem like he minds.
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I so do not care about this headphone or most chifi. But in order to not misguide people PLEASE state things only if you own them or state that you did it through a sound demo first. Because
Ur prior post
Is very misleading where I assumed you had heard the headphone itself
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For me compression is neither good nor bad. Thereās a time and place for it, and a time to leave it out of the chain. In moderation, itās a great way to trick you into thinking that sound is louder than it is. It also can make it so you can hear something āloudā but also something quiet at the time time. Like footsteps and machine gun fire in a game, microdetails in instruments (especially strings) during loud sections, or even just the normal game sounds while one of your teammates has a meltdown on comms. The downsides are it can make sound less impactful (especially songs that lure you in with quiet parts before hammering you with a crescendo) and to me at least the sound sometimes doesnāt feel as clean (depending on the quality and amount of compression).
(preface, havenāt heard the GL2000 so speculation based on all of the impressions / reviews I could find starts below this line, skip or take with salt)
Now, if thereās some sort of cleaver passive compressor or some wizardry is going on with the geometry of the driver in the GL2000, Iām not against it for a secondary headphone. That in of itself would be a cool party trick. I feel the same way about Argons; I will always prefer a āreferenceā headphone for daily driver, but something fun / different is nice. To me they donāt sound natural and arenāt suitable for all sorts of music but they are really fun and I love listening to them. Iām still hoping that the hype pans out and Iāll be able to get the detail monster planars these are being described as. Even if technical ability of the driver is āonlyā at the Sundara level, can deliver impressive detail in a reasonably pleasing way without needing to crank the volume then thatās a win in my book. Hmmm, now I want to play with compression software to see how it affects FPS gamesā¦
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The hybrid pads really open up the headphone. I had not detail with the leather pads now seems the treble is better.
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my bad lol. will do
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Been hearing from quite a few gl2k owners that sufficient time on pink noise (burn in) really opens up these headphones. My theory is that those reviewers who didnāt like the gl2kās probably havenāt burnt them in long enough or at all for that matter. Still waiting on mine, just thought Iād add some insight.
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To burn in your headphones using pink noise do you just do a good old YouTube search and run the audio for 48 hours? Do you have the volume at a normal listening level?
Slightly above your regular listening level.
Thank you very much. I guess you really have to make the drivers move to make a difference.
Question. I bought the GL2000 and the Dethonray Honey as I tend to like a warmer less linear sound as Zeos described.
However, the Focal Radiance is about the same price as both together and I believe the Radiance can be driven by my AK 120m2 pretty well. I use it for IEMs today, but they are impractical at my desk for all day wear.
Thoughts, Door #1 or Door #2? I donāt have a lot of experience with Zeos, but I do like his passion. I did join the Patreon, but I donāt have the Telegram link to ask directly yet.
thank you for this explanation, still working on burn in
IMO the two doors you describe are for different use cases so I think itās more a question of which use case you think has more urgent need. Even so I would wager the Radiance + AK outperforms the GL2000 + Dethonray.
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My man, 10/10, PURCHASED.
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nice hope you like them, electronic music is 
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Fighting urge to grab these
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i was same, just decided to see for myself, a nice add to the collection
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Welp, just ordered this. I have a feeling Iāll be really happy with it. Then, read about how wrong I am. The cycle continuesā¦
Anyone know of another upcoming headphone that will be universally hated/loved by everyone? Either way, Iām in or out.
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Probably gonna show up just when you get the GL2000ās delivered to your doorstep 
Thatās what happend to me, bought the Sundara, bam this thing shows up 
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remember that these scale with power. For example my Feliks Euforia sound really good but doesnāt have the same bass impact like my Wells Audio HeadTrip 2. So power is a must for these cans just like the Empyrean. Also again found the leather pads to roll off the high end too much and delete some of the spatial queās. So go with the hybrids as they donāt affect the bass region which these excel at and gives the sound stage more 3 dimensional and better upper range where it sounds more natural. This isnāt a god killer but itās a good headphone. The Empyrean has a deeper meatier bass region more crystal highs killer midrange the GL is lighter in the categories mentioned. Remember resolve didnāt like Abyss 1266 TC which he mentioned in one of his streams said the tuning was strange. So you canāt take every reviewer as gold if thatās the case I would have kept the Susvara and sold the 1266 TC. $600 is a lot of money and good thing is the presentation says $600 or more. This isnāt my favorite headphone in my pile but it does better sub bass bass quantity then some of my of TOTL headphones. I doubt sundara will have IMAX sub bass itās good quality bass but if you want to rock go GL2000.
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The fact that itās being compared to those headphones speaks to the obsurd value of this headphone which Iāve been thinking about the company that this headphone has.
Arya
LCD - X
Empyrean
These are huge hitters. And these headphones are nearly half their cost.
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