I'm really curious about what the price point of these is going to be.

I'm guessing the Fostex will be somewhere between the T50rp and TH600, but that's a big gap so it could be anywhere. I'd love to see something portable sized, but that's unlikely unless they've developed something less power hungry (though if anybody could do that... it would be them).

Audeze... they've already got the 1k and 2k price points, and I don't see it going lower, so where else to go but up? At least up to Abyss pricing. I dunno, just wildly speculating here. nevermind just saw the prices on the hf thread

TBH the new Jerry Harvey CIEMs are doing a bunch of stuff that annoys me... the whole "MOAR DRIVERS" with the quad trio (12 drivers per side, for a total of 24), plus the whole paying $200 more for all carbon fibre shells. Like those guys who gloat about their carbon fibre steering wheels oooo.

...And yet I can't help but get all hyped 'bout it. Between these and the 10 drivers coming out from you-know-who, it seems the trend of trying to shove more and more drivers into shells marches on unabated. Which is iffy, because having more drivers means there's more to go wrong, and the sound could be disjointed.

That's part of why I'll be investing in Canal Works this fall. They don't use nearly as many drivers, but like the UERM they have a well done integration and implementation. The L05QD is especially nice, and their L51a flagship uses resistors to "tune" the sound. I appreciate clever stuff like that over bigger numbers, both in drivers and price.

Also yeah, I'm super psyched about the new Fostex. Let's hope they've decided to release a flagship-level ortho again. Between these, the two new Audez'e models, and LFF's two new models... it's a very nice (and expensive) time for orthos.

Bah, there are two things in this hobby that get my lust meter rising more than the average announcement: new high-end IEMs and new planars. It just so happens most of the cool announcements have been for these things.

Someone needs to get the XC right away!

really looking forward to hearing you guys impressions on the stuff.
Fostex Orthos and new Audeze being the most interesting.
I'd really love to hear more about LFF's Code-X but since it's so limited and all that I get a bit sad about perhaps never being able to own one.

and hoping Schiit will get some new schiit out!

will there be anything new on the Universal IEM front as well? I'm a bit behind.