Equipment Reviews

Introduction
ZMF headphones is a company that makes high end hand crafted wooden headphones out of Chicago, Illinois. I always wished for a contemporary planar headphone offering from Zach the owner of ZMF as his previous planar offering were the modded fostex t50rp headphones. I never heard said headphone but assumed that a new planar offering from Zach built with his years of headphone making experience would create something truly special. I guess people should start calling me Nostradamus because that headphone now sits before me from the master forge deep in mount doom… the Caldera! Zach was nice enough to temporarily loan me a pair for review and was very clear that there were no strings attached with the review.



Build quality, Comfort, Setup
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Comfortable Opulent Sophistication: COS D1 Review

An exceptional thanks to Josh M. for loaning me this DAC for review. The Appetizers COS Engineering is a small team of passionate audio enthusiasts hailing from Taiwan. The COS D1 (Connoisseur of Sound DAC 1) was their first foray into the digital domain back in 2014. Coming in at

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"My first couple of dates with the COS D1 were soaked with engagement. I was pleased to listen to album after album with my better half, both of us applauding the DAC for making everything sound good. I heard the DAC as being a couple of degrees warmer than what I was used to, exuding some of the “Brit-Fi” sound signature of my ATC speakers, and creating a cozy canvas upon which sonic information escaped for my ears to feast. The 45/55 mix of dry/wet kind of tone played well for so many albums in my first experience with a high-end converter on my SCM 40 v2 floor-standers. It allowed both of us to get lost in the music, and enjoy a night reminiscing over our angsty years and music throwbacks. "