Maxwell 1 - An essential part of my life
I want to get this off my chest but i'm not that good with words so bare with me.
I got a Maxwell 1 i think 6 months roughly after it came out it came out, at first i wasn't blown away by the sound, i'm a huge bass guy i like my headphones to rumble off my head. im talking about sub bass. Anyway, i don't know how many of you on here remember but do you recall when Audeze "accidentally?" released a firmware which boosted the sub bass frequencies?. you had to eq the treble back in but my god does this thing RUMBLE sometimes it feel like i'm underwater or something i can't explain it. Anyway, said firmware was removed and you couldn't downgrade to it, luckily i never updated and kept it. 2 days ago i was cleaning my headset for the first time in 3 years i very stupidly was wiping the inside of the earcup didn't realise the mesh attached to and protecting the driver had worn and left part of the driver exposed, my finger or the mesh touched the driver and long story short the right driver crimpled. I was literally in mourning. Wasn't sure what to do, i didn't want a new one because I know my unique firmware would be gone.
So i did a little bit of research and decided to order a new one but swap the good drivers out and put them in my old headset. I don't know why anyone else would do this, but just for anyone wondering it's so easy, its just 4 screws and soldering of two wires. incidentally, looking inside the headset pretty much every other component, battery ect, is very serviceable. Long story short here i am listening with them right now and they sound perfect again, i've used headphones that cost upwards of £1500 and these are my favorite, and they happen to be wireless.
That's how much i love and can't do without this sound. This headset is literally an essential part of my existence and i'm thinking about ordering another one just to have some spare drivers. Thank you Audeze.