One thing I should mention. I did feel the overall FR was audibly smoother with the veiled pair from the early run. The un-veiled pairs don't sound as smooth (I'm running one of my more laid back driver tubes in the BA,) but I'll easily take one of these new improved pairs over the old veiled pairs.

Interesting. Must spend some more time tomorrow with a rested mind looking at the chart.

It's definitely more than FR. The TP mods can accomplish a similar FR pattern, but they didn't have the transient response and closed things in. These new ones sound very open.

Wow....that's a lot of variations there. I think only Diabelli had more. 

Oh yeah. They (Audeze supporters) tore LFF to pieces too when he said they were veiled - basically giving him the 5th degree on amps, music, his ears, etc.

Say anything bad about Audeze, especially before Tyll released his LCD3 data, and you were labeled one of those people with an anti-Audeze "agenda." This goes way back to the LCD2r1 where you have kwkarth, Frank I, and even Skylab (to a much lesser extent) jump on you pretty much saying "you don't know what the fuck you are talking about" in much kinder words, even in threads such as the "LCD2r1 vs. HD800" discussion.

There was really no way for me to challenge the "experts" or "engineers" (LOL, there are other people who happen to be engineers too, but don't advertise it or use it as a badge of authority or gauge of expertise) other than for me to start taking measurements. All I had were my ears, so I needed measurements to prove myself correct and build my own credibility - the hard way. Back then, Tyll's measurements weren't exactly helping anyone who would dare criticize Audeze; and people were making way too much nonsense out of things such as the LCD2r1's 30Hz "perfect" square-wave measurement.

What so funny is that LFF mentioned the LCD3 veil before anyone else - even before me. And now it's a matter of truth. Same thing with "ringing" too. The ringing behaviors of the r1 and r2 are now a matter of truth.

BTW, I myself have received plenty of PM's pretty much along the lines of "!@#$ #$*#& @#@#" and on and on. It comes with the territory.

This is old news, but Audeze couldn't make an r1 or r2 that even sounded the same or had ringing at the same spots (I've heard at least a dozen r1s and half-a-dozen r2s.) They were all over the place. You can ask LFF and especially Anax here about that. As for quality, only time will tell. Personally I think Audeze got overwhelmed and didn't expect many of these issues. I've been tough, but honest about them; and I certainly wish them continued success because I would like to see an LCD4.