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Old 12-15-2017, 11:25 PM
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Default Focal Elex

New headphones from Focal. Limited to 1000 serialized units. Available Dec 18th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DNW7NUAnHg

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Old 12-16-2017, 01:26 AM
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Yeah, those are for Massdrop and look like a screamin' deal.
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Definitely worth the money.
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Definitely worth the money.
Does this mean you are going to sneak in another audio purchase for the year?...lol
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Does this mean you are going to sneak in another audio purchase for the year?...lol
Probably not the Elex. I already have the Utopia and Elear. Clear? Maybe but next year.
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Old 12-17-2017, 12:39 AM
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Here is a review of the Massdrop Elex.

https://youtu.be/FtoHJAfVLws
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I was really tempted to go for these but I have some new Noble IEMs on the way so I’m gonna take a pass, painful though it may be.
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I was really tempted to go for these but I have some new Noble IEMs on the way so I’m gonna take a pass, painful though it may be.
I guess I'm behind times but I still can't get into the IEM's
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I fly a fair amount for work and up until the last couple of years, there really were no good sounding headphones with active noise cancellation and IEMs provided good sound with more noise reduction passively than the available headphones did actively so I guess I got used to them. I think my Shure se535 Ltd with Silver Dragon balanced (2.5 mm TRRS) sounds better than any of the headphones I have except for the Focal (Elear) and the Audeze (LCD-XC). Fit is critical but when the fit is good, the IEMs are great. BTW, I don’t use custom IEMs. For how I use them I want good noise blocking but total noise blocking would probably not be safe.
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I fly a fair amount for work and up until the last couple of years, there really were no good sounding headphones with active noise cancellation and IEMs provided good sound with more noise reduction passively than the available headphones did actively so I guess I got used to them. I think my Shure se535 Ltd with Silver Dragon balanced (2.5 mm TRRS) sounds better than any of the headphones I have except for the Focal (Elear) and the Audeze (LCD-XC). Fit is critical but when the fit is good, the IEMs are great. BTW, I don’t use custom IEMs. For how I use them I want good noise blocking but total noise blocking would probably not be safe.
I'll have to check some out but a lot of times they just fall out of my ears for whatever reason.
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