OK, Now to burn in 5 sets for SoCal Canjam. I will be sharing a table with Mimic Audio at this upcoming September 28-29th event. 25 more should be arriving at the hotel to be sold directly. Another 7-8 for friends and family, the rest for whomever I feel can best promo them in the real world, Streamers, Podcast hosts, DJs, smaller Youtubers. Huge thanks to Linsoul for arranging so many for me to dick around with. I might even reserve one to mod/tune further. Super-Eris if you will.
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The only thing you could do is tune one to make the OCD measurement freaks happy. Otherwise donât waste your time. Itâs perfectly good as is for the rest of the people.
Linsoul were super dope at Canjam UK, thatâs were I got to hear ERIS (your table was way too busy) and Thieaudioâs swag 
to them 
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But what if I made a Bassy version⊠As opposed to the normal, normal bass version everyone can buy? Eh? EH?
Wait⊠You were there? Did you say hello and I missed it?
Yes and l did say hello right at the start of the first day as it opened, you liked the Baby Metal tee 
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More bass would likely just cause severe driver distortortion which would then f up everything else, unless youâre talking about precived bass, like, reducing the upper mid & treble.
Just checking in. Must have been the brain damage. (Had to be a burn in time thingâŠ) Not sure what the hours are at now, lost track. I let them go for 24 hours before I started using them but I guess that wasnât enough. But they sound incredible out of the UM2, quarter inch jack is fine. Havenât bothered with anything else for over a week now. Not sure I will ever again lol. They have the PERFECT amount of bass IMO. <3
(While somehow being absurdly clear�)
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Whatâs the best way to put stickers on the headphones? Do you just get a large sticker and then use an x-acto knife to cut around the edges?
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I didnât track my burn in time exactly. I do know that the recommended 50 hours is not nearly enough. Iâd guess 100 hours is needed.
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I have done some testing now that I have so many new units here. Turns out the PAD break-in is almost more important than the driver. I have a whole thing where I weighed the BRAND new pads, 8 sets at between 31-32 grams⊠The units I have been using for months weigh in at 33 grams (2 sets) and I did a test spraying some Neutrogena body oil on them⊠45 minutes sit and then tumble dry in my dryer. I got the weight up to 34 grams artificially and smashed the pads around and swapping Brand new, Actually old and now Artificial pads I am clearly hearing what the pad density change is doing.
So what all this means is⊠Wear your headphones more. They will sound better naturally after the driver breaks in and the pad starts changing⊠SCIENCE
I measured the glass at 2-7/8" and used a circle cutter on my sticker material. You can do it with a compass and then draw the line and use scissors to cut it out. Getting it on the glass is the harder part⊠I must also warn you if you have paper backed stickers. Removing them is going to leave residue and probably some paper. My stickers are vinyl.
Found a great match up for every headphone Iâve got, including the Eris, which Iâm listening to now.
The NAD C165BEE has an awesome headamp in it. Note that it makes 600ohm DT990 better than Iâve ever heard them before with the volume at 3 oâclock. Stunning to me. The Eris start rocking about 9 oâclock. 11 oâclock is at the level of Dolby Vision Theater loud while maintaining dynamic control. Iâm using 2009 Star Trek in 4K as my SQ testing material.
I got my C165BEE on Reverb. Theyâre not made anymore unfortunately.
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Iâve done it. Dual mono Xduoo TA-26. Currently the only headphones I have with 3.5 TRS input are the Eris. However itâs working & sounds rather good. All of the right signal is going to 1 of the TA26. All of the left signal is going to the other TA26. Both channels are driven on each amp, therefore giving double the power to any given headphone. Iâm using the NAD as the preamp. A single 3.5 TRS to 6.35 TRS runs from each amp to each earcup of the Eris. So far so good.
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You have certainly done something sir. Iâm not sure how youâre getting two channel down to one in each ear cup. Iâd be careful youâre not grounding something since the input on Eris should just be using two pole. I was doing a similar setup recently to run tungsten.
This is the Achilles speaker amp. Eight watts per channel. One entire monoblock per side. I used the Eris straight on and it was a little bit noisy but then I use the adapter box and it was better. Not sure if Eris needs this much tube. But tungsten does.
Cracked open eight brand new units Iâm taking 5 to California this weekend. Was doing driver and pad break in stuff. Then I gave each one of these between 20 and 40 minutes on my head. Driver variation has been consistent. One unit on the end I thought sounded a little off but it could have just been me having a bad playlist experience since I wasnât listening to the same songs. Iâll give them another round today.
Just a note for perspective buyers. They seem to have increased the resistance on the rotation on the yolk but itâs varying from unity unit and sometimes even from left to right Iâm sure itâll all work out once youâve used them for a while but brand new out of the box it was something I noticed.
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I just thought of something. Yes both sides of the tubes are driven with input signal, but without mod to the wiring of the headphoneâs 3.5 input jack, corresponding to +/-, then the driver in the headphone is only getting signal from one side of the tube, right? Crap. Iâm not sure.
Watch with Subtitles. If anyone wants to do a better translation than YT Auto-Translate. I would love to see it.
I like how you responded so politely.
I would understand the setup⊠if they XDUOO TA-26 actually were Mono amps⊠and or would be connected âleft - rightâ per amp but since they are both connected?
Even if the both amps would be used⊠they would still only use âone channelâ actually to send left and right signal headphones⊠second channels doing nothing or playing audio to audio void ? That would be the same thing as using one amp with left and right. Internally they probably are not using left+right power and sending that to one channel onlyâŠish?
My head hurts⊠and just cannot find any technical or real world benefit from this setup. There has to be something wrong or i need a actual drawn diagram of connections to figure this out.
Like you mentioned. "You have certainly done something sir. Iâm not sure how youâre getting two channel down to one in each "
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Just a reminder, everyone following this topic, youâll be able to hear Eris and actually purchase a few sets at a discount this weekend @ Southern California Canjam⊠Iâll be located at the mimic booth. with a ton of sets on demo. See you there.
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A bit late to the party here but I wanted to throw in my $0.03 (adjusted for inflation) as Iâm one of the few that owns more than one pair of Eris. I have been able to directly compare a brand new set vs a well broken in set (SN 135 (broken in) vs 356 (less than 1 hour)). I ended up with 3 sets because Iâm impatient and Linsoul told me my order wasnât going to ship for weeks, lol. AnywayâŠ
I agree 100% with Z, the Eris requires both driver burn-in and pad break-in. With both done it is a noticeable improvement (bass tightens up, driver feels like it has more control and the treble calms down a bit, soundstage opens up just a tad), with one or the other there are very slight chaanges. Itâs hard for me to tell which is more important (pads vs driver) but both together make this the second headphone Iâve experienced that had real burn-in (first was my ZMF Atticus).
Iâll also echo that these drivers seem to be indestructible against overpowering. I have put a ridiculous amount of volume through these and have yet to feel like the drivers are in danger. Itâs hard to make them bottom out before hurting your ear drums. You can get an absolutely ludicrous amount of bass shake from these. Whoever said this is like a THX theater experience on your head is spot on. My audio tastes line up pretty well with Zâs and these headphones are just about perfect for me. I still have plenty of other options when I want a different flavor but these are going to be my go-to for most stuff from here out. I already bought an extra pair of Eris pads (they came before my Eris actually) so Iâm playing with those pads on other headphones since theyâre so damn comfy. Can confirm the Eris pads on the Mondrop Para is a great option. The Eris pads do not sync well with my T50rp based headphones (Iâm slightly obsessed with the Open Alphas currently, printing a bunch of variants and trying different tunings) but most everything else Iâve tried them on theyâve either been good or great.
So yeah, IMO Z knocked it out of the park with this one. Iâll eventually gift my second set to a friend once Iâm done testing them. These things are just awesome and fun. Donât give a flying fuck about the frequency response graph.
If any of you sadists want more bass try the True/XBass on an Ifi Zen Dac (I have the V2) or some deep leather pads (or bothâŠ). Itâs absolutely insane.
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