ZMF New Headphones: Vérité and Aeolus

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  1. BenjaminBore

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    Hey @zach915m, just catching up on the thread. Did you become a Noctua dealer or something? Maybe you could make them an optional extra for all your open-backs ;)
     
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    LOL. Didn't even notice what thread this was.

    I'll have some impressions to post after ZMFestivus.
     
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    ZMF has been releasing several models in a "short period" of time. I am glad with this, although i would hope the prices would be a bit lower i understand the unique look, and performance, of their items. I am curious about them and i wish i was in the US to actually give them a try.

    I don't know about you but...i hate Noctua color scheme. If you want something as good, silent, reliable, with good pressure, buy the Bequiet ones.
    Before ppl start ralling, i have both brands, several fans of each actually, and i every time i looked at my PC it felt like a punch on the stomach to look at that melted ice-cream god awful colors. I did my research, tried several and the one that ticks all the points are the Silent Wings. I still use a nh-l9x65 but i swapped the fan with a silent wings one.

    Check it out, even more if you are within the EU.
     
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    Haha yeah that Brown and khaki scheme doesn't match with what most people have going on. My case is all black with rgb. I figured I could just put them in the front slots and nobody would see them.
     
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    They make them in black too.
     
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    Running Silent Platinum level power supplies helps too. Either the fanless ones or the ones where Fan can be switched to lowest or ECO mode. Not only are they quieter but power is cleaner and better regulated. And they are a lot less than an LPS!

    Just Sayin,
    Hapy Listening!
     
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    I'm sure they're awesome fans, and I'll get them eventually. The colors are strange though.

    For whoever gets to test the Aeolus, I have a couple questions for after.

    Do they sound like a Atticus/Eikon middle ground? With the extended treble and sub-bass, that's what I'm imagining, and could be exactly what I'm looking for.
     
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    God damn it, guys. I did try and give you a friendly nudge. A certain amount of off topic is natural but every time I get an alert for this thread I’m expecting to see some new bloody impressions, but instead it’s you guys on your second page of talking about PC cooling in a headphone thread.

    Humbly requesting a mod move everything from about here: https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/zmf-new-headphones-vérité-and-aeolus.6893/page-8#post-230689

    To the PC Build thread:
    https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/post-your-computer-build.182/page-15
     
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    yeah, this is a shit post, too, but seriously, buncha randos posting blabbering drivel about computer fan colors has to be just higher than whale shit in the spectrum of noise to signal ITT.
     
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    Indeed!....LOL!
     
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    I saw this pic and immediately thought I was smelling a box of really nice cigars. I'm sure that would pair well with these.
     
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    This thread is about new Lego sets of ZMF headphones right?
     
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    I thought it was about sticking CPU fans up your butt.
     
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    Aeolus is legit:
    1. No more concentrated midbass hump of Atticus.
    2. No more cup resonance of Atticus
    3. FR more like Eikon, think of this more along the lines of an open Eikon
    4. Nice darkish tone.
    Verite (latest tuning) is enthralling:
    1. This is the more colored headphone
    2. W shaped response
    3. It's a super TH-XX. A TH-XX that is super resolving
    4. OMG, from a good chain, it tucks at the heartstrings. Resolves so much, super volume gradations - possibly the best I've ever heard.
    5. Fast, but not mechanical and dry fast like Utopias.
    6. The is the BEST Japanese headphone since the R10. Sony engineers behind the Z1R should commit seppuku immediately.
    7. I was prepared to jump on the Aeolus. Had a little bit of an adjustment because of the "color", but this seduced me.
    8. I'm buying one. Plan to keep four serious headphones: HD800 (resolution), Elex (transients), Verum (old school planar timbre), and this (Japanese).
     
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    Forgot to mention, next time I see @zach915m, I expect to see him in makeup so he looks Japanese, kind of like how they made Kirk and Spock look like a Romulan in that episode where they stole the cloaking device. Or was that a Mission Impossible episode? I don't know. Probably same writers. I get so confused with Leonard Nimoy's characters on those two shows. Do you guys remember that TJ Hooker episode where Nimoy was made a guest appearance?
     
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    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Never noticed until now.
     
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    Mine has a touch more treble than my Eikon. Sounds more detailed. I think if an Atticus and Eikon had mad freaky sex on spring vacation after a night of binge drinking and doing lines of coke, then parted ways never to see each other again, and the Atticus got pregnant, and eventually the Atticus' parents made it give up the baby to a loving and nurturing HD800 SDR mod adoptive family where it learned the way of open sound and detail... Yeah, it's like that. But not. Not at all. I don't know.

    Should I be sleeping sometime this week? F me.
     
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    Yeah. Atticus speed and transients. Eikon smoothness, but not quite as bassy or dark as Eikon.
     

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