They were pretty negative impressions. Made me wonder if anything pleases him at all. If he expects a $199 bluetooth headphone to get every single thing right, he's expecting too much. Balanced sound, comfort, good build quality, optional battery slots, and some resonance issues. Sounds pretty fantastic for the price, to me.

I also played some heavy electronic tracks with low/sub bass on the Z7s and they had plenty, and it wasn't distorted. And who cares what a 'normal' person thinks? A normal person thinks iBuds are perfectly fine.

LOL! Hey! I consider myself "normal" and don't like iBuds...

Pendulumic Stance S1.
Some showstopping resonance issues. (A hoot with some pierce to it, it was odd.) Good popular full balance. Metallic electronic hash in the signal. Never call your product S, you are just asking for it.

Now I remember those! Heard them at the OC 2014 meet! Indeed, going by memory they had some resonance or distortion issue. Like the balance from a quick listen though.

Thune
Oppo had 3 prototypes at the meet and they sounded differant then each other.
Sounds like you heard the one that was closed in sounding,muffled.
The other 2 where close in sound more open & treble extended,one had a touch more bass but not as wide a headstage.
I listened to one & loved it when someone mentioned They had differant sounding pairs I went back and compared them all.
The one I loved sounded like a open phone with a wide headstage with good treble extension.
 I would take that one over the pm1 &2   as I was interested in the PM2s,I never really took to the PM1s.
I hope oppo voices the production unit the same as the one I liked ,I gave my feedback to the reps. I will buy one when they are released ,if its not as good or better then the prototype I will just return it.

Quote from: thune on October 15, 2014, 01:42:52 AM

Pendulumic Stance S1.
Some showstopping resonance issues. (A hoot with some pierce to it, it was odd.) Good popular full balance. Metallic electronic hash in the signal. Never call your product S, you are just asking for it.

Uh oh. I hope Mike Johnson, VP of Sales @ Pendulumic doesn't come by here and ask you for another listen, like what he did for asr.

HeadFi has entered the Victorian Era.

I'm surprised his post wasn't deleted by the good conduct patrol.

Poor chap, that Mike.
Doesn't know how crazy some of us are. About our wiring fetish embracing ritual before becoming an audiophile.

Edit: Misuse of quote's

Asr's post was straight up grumpy dickwad status. It was ballsy to call them scam artists as well, even in jest.

Maybe. But many people went over the line in response, and it's pretty insecure for an MOT to respond to one anonymous negative review.

I wasn't commenting on the replies. The "oh no, we must all agree" bullshit wasn't needed either.

True.

I guess I have some sympathy for him because:

1. Some of my posts have come off as more negative than intended because I've made the mistake of taking the positives for granted.

2. It isn't easy to be the guy who says NO there.