5xx…that is most interesting! would fit a Senn better though, but I’d honestly hope it would be an HE, as theoretically, if it;'s a HFM collaboration, it should be superior to the Sundara.
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Doesn’t look like a He400i 2020. Looks like a HE-500.
…or a 5XX yeah 
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Definitely planars.
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I wonder when he’s getting to the Jungson review.
The SMSL SU-9 will be out September 30th (and measures well).
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Well, at that price it’s not a direct successor to the SU-8. I wonder how it actually sounds and if it fills the ‘void’ between the ~$200 tier of SU-8 and Modius and the $700 Bifrost 2.
It would be interesting to compare it head to head with the SU-8. It has Bluetooth and I assume newer processors, but does it sound a Lot better?
By boxing day it will likely be between $349.00 and $379.00. To me that increase would require the new model to be Much better.
The supposed 5XX looks a lot like the cups of a Sundara with the headband design of a 4XX, or the original HE-500. Interesting! No mention of a 5XX anywhere on the internet it seems after doing some Google searches.
new release…Bottlehead has made a tube energizer for Stax ear speakers.
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Nice, a somewhat less shitty cable. Still janky, but there’s hope for the future.
Has anyone brought up the FiiO Q3?
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Interesting, I was thinking of grabbing something in the iFi Hip Dac/Topping NX4 space for fun and this is another option. The specs don’t seem to stand out other than the THX label. Having BOTH 2.5 and 4.4 balanced outputs is pretty cool.
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bggar showed off a new version of blons
the BL-05s or something else?
edit - yup, the 05s
and apparently it’s still so close to the original 05’s that one shouldn’t consider it much different. guess it’s not the ‘fixed’ 05 I read about earlier. 
If Audeze used a bent piece of metal with a Beyerdynamic pad for the headband, and fuzzy fabric pads. Curious how it sounds but this thing looks cheap. 
Or is it ZMF2?? Headband somewhat reminiscent haha. Pads look very cheap and fuzzy like you say. Probably a ripoff of something cheap
I want to ask what headphone it is - but I am a little positive that BGGR mentioned that he received a pre-production headphone model from a company.
I don’t watch YT that much, so I have no idea if he mentioned this headphone before…