I’m also going to be printing some fazors to sell this week too if you want to hold out a lil longer 
I’m going to print ones that are plastic and just adhere with double sticky tape I’ll include, then some that actually use an iron impregnated plastic filament, so they’ll just attach directly to the drivers. This in theory will also boost the efficiency a little bit. I’ll take some frequency response measurements to see if they change anything substantially.
Keep us posted most interested in this , if you need testers I’ll volunteer.
Will do! I’ll upload pics as soon as I have prototypes
Nope, heard them many times…
Xduoo XD-05 Plus is also out, no balanced but puts out 1W as a portable dac/amp.
And one you you mate 
Love this quote mate 
i’m glad you bonded with them 
The Brothers in Bamako album some how reminds me of J.J Cale lol
off the phantom topic, because I can’t decide if I want Tidal. I feel the premium isn’t good but I don’t want to spend $20 for hifi. Do I need hifi or will premium be enough. I currently use iTunes service and Foobar for my flac. Is premium better then iTunes? Also I mainly listen to edm 90% of the time.
Consider it in regards to catalog and not quality. Tidal is way smaller than Spotify and you might not find what you want.
Doesn’t sound like what id want.
thanks
Nah, it still came with two foam discs. As soon as I got it I did a quick sound test then immediately started the mod.
It’s funny this has come up. Before I got the Phantom and the Argon was my main headphone, I thought Tidal was “good enough” and only downloaded/acquired/ripped my very fav CD’s to flac.
Because of the detail, I can hear little variations that is now making me question Tidal. I was listening to Gloria Estefan - Anything For You and at the big finish of this song is an emotional vocal part that is supposed to lead into these trumpets.
I never noticed before that the trumpets weren’t there until I listened to it with these headphones via Tidal.
Sure enough, downloaded a CD flac version and my glorious trumpets were there. So I’ve learned not to trust Tidal as much as I once did. It’s still fine, but I think I’ll buy a hard drive and start ripping the CD’s of any artist I want to listen to and use Tidal as my quick back-up.
Well something else to consider is that you may have a different release of the CD with a different master then the version on tidal. Discogs is a great way to find out what you have and possibly buy different cd pressings. But I agree that tidal just sometimes doesn’t do it for me
Have had my since tuesday now, they came with the newer box.
Im so far very happy with them, they were a little muffled in the beginning but burn in and using the second pair of pads opened them up. Still could be little brigter but I rather have the darker sound for my ears since I cant handle to bright and analytic speakers/headphones.
I have tried them without the backplates and that seemed to improve them also so I made a 3d printed frame that raise the backplate 3mm to minimize the magnetic interference with the metal of the backplate but keep the original look. Here is how it looks.
Haven’t done any serious A/B testing with and without the raised frame but my first impression was that it sounds better.
The issue is not magnetism but the mesh attached to the cover is not porous enough to let air through.
There is no magnetic interference, that doesn’t physically make sense.
Search this thread to find my physics explanation for why that is.
There are also many different headphones that use magnetic metals as grills (many hifiman’s for example).
So I just got my ZMF pads and I’m completely satisfied with the results. I still think that 58 dollars for pads is complete nonsense, but I wanted to commit to the Phantoms and the build quality and comfort are great; an unexpected effect of the fatter pads is that the headband doesn’t bother me at all anymore and I guess it has to do with the extension of the headphones.