Looking forward to that review ;-)

Anyway, I guess the work that the two of us did on these Stratos just reflects what responsible audio companies should do. Based on inspiration and subjective listening, putting prototypes to objective tests, learning from them and using acquired knowledge and inspiration again to tweek the system in order to finally achieve an awsome sounding product.

There is no need for fancy looks, posh BS and invention of awe-inspiring technological terms when something just sounds right. Yet, what we see too often, especially on HF, is people who are trying to make people believe a mediocre headphone is a flagship and thus assisting audio companies trying to reach into people's pockets. But then again it might not be the companies' fault alone. There is also the army of people who buy such headphones getting on crusades for the headphone they have been talked into spending 1 or 2k on while this headphone has obvious limitations or deficiencies. Their arguments get even more heated when they are faced with objective data or reviews of people who no longer want to be taken for fools.