Uhh, why was a customer sold a pair with a prototype phase of the mods that was "catastrophically wrong"?
LOL, no idea. He was just as confused as to why it happened. That said, Dan is a nice guy, and I'm sure it was not intentional.
I call tentative bullshit. After all the stuff I've seen from Dan in the wild, I suspect the "I think there's a problem with that pair" was just an attempt to save face. He had the big whine at the SF Bay meet about his entry in the "guess the frequency" contest, he learned how to measure from Marv, and he's pulled all kinds of random shit in the past.
So the Alpha Prime's from the mini-meet have been repaired. According to Dan, they were "catastrophically wrong", and were still in a prototype phase of the Prime mods.
What I'm also wondering is how they compare to the ZmF Vibro / Blackwoods. I know the signatures are supposed to be different but the Blackwoods at least are supposed to be quite linear, which makes me wonder if they'd be a better high-end closed option than the Primes.
Blackwood is more linear than Vibro, but I wouldn't say it's a neutral headphone: it's consistent with the warm and smooth ZMF house sound. I haven't heard A-Prime yet, but I'll have the opportunity at Axpona.
Good to know, thanks. So I should be thinking more along the lines of, say, the HD650 or HE500 rather than the HD600 or Mad Dogs?
