New Chifiman Playnar Flagship Unveiled!

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  1. OJneg

    OJneg The Most Insufferable

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    I bet Jude is mad that Fang didn't give him a heads up. But Fang knows that Jude likes to break release embargos so he can get more clicks and Huddler $$$
     
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    purr1n Desire for betterer is endless.

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    Or Fang hasn't wired money to Jude yet.
     
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    This is why we all love the Andromedas so much, they sound god damned incredible and are /only/ ~1k. Also, as a side note i bet they sound better than this nonsense chifi bullshit
     
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    The things that still makes the Shangri-La more ridiculous to me than this, personally, are that:

    1) it is designed at every step to be counter intuitive. A 300B stat amp?
    2) it is clearly a luxury product targeting the same market as the Orpheus... but look at it.
    3) You could set it next to this product and by visuals and sound alone never be able to guess it was $40k. Ever.
    4) I was pretty much expecting this. The LCD-4, the Abyss, the Utopia. $4k IEMs. It's a trend that has been steadily marching onward. And it will continue to do so.

    Is the Edition 5 the more "insipid" product? Sure. But the Shangri-La more than anything demonstrates Fang's madness.
     
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    Hifiman are aliening themselves from the western market in exchange for the asian market. Especially China where they suffer from some serious conspicuous consumption.
     
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    That, or they steal it from the hifiman suite at CES.
     
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    FallingObjects Pay It Forward

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    It been stolen already.
     
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    Makes me want to paint pictures of both Groucho and Karl Marx on a pair of Porta Pros.
     
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    Smitty Too good for bad vodka - Friend

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    I'll take whatever Fang has been smoking, that's some seriously strong shit.

    This really just confirms for me that I should stay the hell away from their products until they ether depreciate by 75-85%, or until they actually get serious and build a real headphone engineered to be more than audio jewellery. Shit, I need to buy a house so I can get a speaker setup, it would cost less and look less ugly.
     
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    Merrick A lidless ear

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    That's just it... These headphones *aren't* even audio jewelry. The $6k Sonorous X from Final? That's audio jewelry.

    HiFiMan used to be about offering ugly-ass, poorly built headphones that sounded OK at lower prices. Now they're about offering ugly-ass, poorly built headphones that sound OK at higher prices. Much higher prices.
     
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    Not to mention the plethora of other issues surrounding the company, such as review manipulation on amazon, or the (lack of) customer service.
     
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    "Keep the clients on the Ferris Wheel..."

     
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    What has this hobby become LOL. After the next Ether Flow revisions, 5 possibly In the next month I can see him announcing the Ether Wave inspired by Estatz 95% closer than before with a super doopa fast driver or some other hippie shite followed by 10 revisions for 6K.
     
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    Merrick A lidless ear

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    I found the HF thread. It's in the "summit-fi" section. I'd laugh if I wasn't busy crying.
     
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    Link for the bored at work??

    I'm starting to think I should just propose to my HD800 and HE-6 because I may never buy another worthwile headphone that was released post-2015 and on (maybe even buy backups, it's like hoarding supplies for an apocalypse)


    Also is the HE-6 and Hifiman Edition 6 going to be the next f'ing annoying thing in headphone abbreviations?
     
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    OJneg The Most Insufferable

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    OJneg The Most Insufferable

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    nvm, moderators can lock the thread.

    The Stillhart has spoken.
     
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    Merrick A lidless ear

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    I have to hand it to the HF crowd, almost all the comments in that thread are negative.
     
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