The AUDEZE King Launches on Indiegogo

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  1. Andre Y

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    Could be or something like it. Check out the Constellation Audio amp, which the video says has a related circuit: http://www.constellationaudio.com/ca/inspiration/mono_1_0/index.php

    Maybe Bascom King has some kind of phase splitter to generate the positive and negative signals such a topology might require, like many tube amps do (since tubes only come in one type of "polarity").
     
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    The thing puts 6 W into 20 Ohms, but has a max power draw of 30 W, so maybe they're running something really inefficient? All guesses at this point.
     
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    That's not abnormal for Class A stuff
     
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    i just wanna know who those sexy grills are in the video building audeze cans
     
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    ROFL, audeze is officialy the new head-fi police state.

    I went on there facebook and asked if the lcd4 "outperforms every other headphone on the market" why it didn't win any awards at canjam rmaf

    within 5 minutes my post was deleted and i was blocked from there page

    Jude do you work for audeze now?
     
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    FWIW - They actually make an effort to say that they aren't crowd funding with this campaign, instead they are "giving back" to the existing Audeze owners by offering these amazing deals... Interesting approach.

    ZeroD was one of the first ten to purchase...
     
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    Give back to the community? This is hocus pocus (used a more serious term but go to stay PC here) if you were giving back to the community you would have just offered it straight out instead of going somewhere as soon as you receive the perk you can't take it back. Yes that is right folks on Indiegogo there is a strict no return policy and no Audeze can not override it.

    Just another marketing tool for Audeze to take advantage of the community and try to use a glorious cause.
     
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    Here, in the indiegogo part of the video linked from the indigogo webpage they claim 30 days full refund. However I agree, "giving back to the community" is some of the most shady way of putting it I have ever heard. That truly says a lot.

    edit: ops, couldn't link the video timestamp or I screwed up in some way. It's roughly at 2:30 in the video.
     
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    Hmm interesting don't know how they managed that it specifically states in the Indiegogo returns FAQ that no refunds will be given after the perk has been received. Thanks for the update.
     
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    Why the hell is there a WES in the background of the video?
     
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    That's a good question. Audeze Stats coming soon!? :)
     
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    About time too as they have trashed the resale value of their earlier headphones due to their upgrade policy. The products also lack consistency so you are never sure exactly what you are going to end up with.
    Personally I will never purchase another Audeze headphone product period.

     
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    From the video it doesn't look like it can handle large amount of the heat.
     
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    I'm actually tempted to buy one due to the return policy. Might be nice to see what its all about.

    At 3 grand, might not be the worst idea.
     
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    No refund if purchased on Indigogo.
     
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    Wanted to post this but ain't had the time, skip 12 mins for the juicy parts. He talks a little on the NPN topology.
     
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    ROFL, does anyone find it kind of ironic that all the people in that video probably can't hear past 10khz
     
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    hello,

    hey, lay off us old guys!;)
     
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    Yeh too true i'm 66 and can still hear to at least 15khz on a recent ear test as that's as far as they test too!
    These young whipersnappers|\/|

     

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