They have also grown on me as well!
Seeing them in person is very different than through pictures. I had a lot of trouble in person capturing properly as I just couldn’t get the lighting quite right on them. But now that it is sunny and beautiful outside, it’s made things a little easier (and certainly more fun to wear with the SP1000M).
I think I’m more enamored with the look and feel of this thing than I was yesterday. Want factor is high … and that’s without considering the sound. It photographs well, as long as you get properly diffuse lighting too …
I still find taking pictures with IEMs in them to be very frustrating though. Making them look good isn’t hard … getting them to stay where you want them, at least with cables connected, always seems to be one step shy of requiring virgin sacrifices.
I still think the Stellia are one of the prettiest headphones out there … in person. It really took seeing them in person to fully appreciate them. And since I finally got around to posting my, long-overdue, review to them … here’s one last picture that I didn’t get to use in the review itself:
First they brought us le ballon rouge and now les écouteurs rouge. Bravo!
I am going to have to do it @Torq…
To be fair, these are very handsome headphones in person… and photos just don’t do them justice. Plus they sound phenomenal for closed backs. I will eventually own a pair =)
That ad is hilarious.
I found the MK2 is on MusicTrek for $729 on sale now, if you were interested.
It’s the same price on heapdhones.com too - not withstanding the fact that @TylersEclectic already has one.
I was close to pulling trigger on mk2 and then I saw this thread and I’m rethinking all my decisions. Don’t tell my wife.
Whoops! Of course it’s on headphones.com, that’s always how that works.
I didn’t even realize that post was from last year, gotta look harder.
It’s not a problem.
I really enjoy the MKII
It has more of a neutral tube sound so far for me, at least with the tubes I’ve rolled.
But that is in reference to having the overly enjoyable and colorful BHC!
Omigod, that is beautiful. I love it when architectural design crossbreeds w/headphone audio design. This is certainly like that; so is the Empyrean. Now, that would be a combination!
The most beautiful headphones I ever owned, by far, were the B&W P5’s Series 1.
The pictures don’t do them justice. The steel, the leather and the posh looking pouch look and feel very impressive.
I also liked the sound even as it pushed the vocals forward.
On the down side it lacked bass and the clamp was so hard it gave me headaches.
I remember when I sold them the buyer was Super impressed when I pulled them out of the pouch.
Beautiful, but flawed.
Shane D
Aside from Auteur in African Blackwood with silver accents, these are my favorite headphones when it comes to aesthetics. I got Sendy Audio Aiva and I’m soon to get Ori in Purple Heart with bronze sliders, like, 95% because of their looks. And I’m seriously considering hunting down the two others just for the eyecandy.
Best looking headphone for me was the Focal Elear. When I first saw it, I wondered why they didn’t give the Utopia those looks also.
Audiovalve Solaris, the Swiss army knife slice of audiophile heaven, headphone amp including electrostatic, amplifier, pre-amplifier do it all tube marvel.
Cool looking piece of kit that!
