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Instrument separation is damn good even with it having a warmer sound sig (bass hits hard). Head stage is 3 blob and it's right down the middle of your ears. Sitting at 50 hours but giving it another 50 to see if any other changes can be heard.

How about comparing to ether 2?

Would love a tour of this one sometime.

@Vtory The Ether 2 is technically a better headphone. More depth, micro dynamics, resolves more, stronger transients, and it doesn’t have the funky 3 blob head stage going on. The thing is, I always found that headphone boring. Apart from the A2O drawbacks it’s a headphone you put on to enjoy music and not critically listen.

I’ll post a more thorough review once it’s had around 100 hours.

I think the Closed model might have the most promise of the two, based on an early listen I had with it. Haven't yet heard the production version, though.

You may be right. From how other reviewers are describing the closed version, it seems they've taken a step in the right direction. The AC was too thin/dry sounding for my tastes but that was on a Lyr 3. Now it looks like it has more body and evens out the rest of the FR.

I do find A2O fun and it gets my toes tapping. Regardless of some of its fault. This thing really does a great job in instrument separation. It doesn't resolve every detail but all instruments has it's own solid space.