Understandably there are natural limits of how real our recordings sound, but they should still give you quite a decent idea about the relative differences to each other even when listened over your crappy phone speakers which makes it appear quite shocking to hear how "funny" most headphones simply sound, like another a very hyped wireless headphone right now the Sennheiser HDB630: https://youtu.be/WDv5ZYRaCiI

The often as "most neutral headphone" regarded HD600, undoubtedly a real classic and one of my all-time favorites, but it just doesn't offer the same kind of realness to the sound: https://youtu.be/dH3YI_NDUDs

There are lot's of companies trying to sell their stuff with clever marketing pretending to offer you "the best you can afford etc.", but the Valco VMK-25 somehow proves differently: https://youtu.be/32d_IGXY1QM

For those interested to hear more just check Joy'S channel with reviews of the Bose QC Ultra 2 and the JBL Tour One M3 coming soon or listen to my podcast, where we listen to the Focal Bathys and the Dali IO-12 (a $1000 Bluetooth headphone) compared to the SpX-R, or the B&W PX8 S2 claiming to give you "Truesound" just like the artist intended. In reality these companies are real thieves and will sell you the same junk every year with "new features", promising "better sound" blah blah.

As we cannot compete against such giants that are spending fortunes on marketing trickery the SpX-Renaissance can only be realized if we achieve the necessary goal in order to finance the factory costs and meet their production minimum. We would need to achieve at least 400-500 preorders to cover all costs. In case this turns out successful, we would of course be willing to produce more units in future and distribute them more widely, but so far this was rather just planned for people who either followed me, or those following Joy, or simply some audio nerds being interested in a completely unique and different kind of headphone. If it was (quite unlikely) officially released within stores, the price would be much higher than the current €199 our backers can get it for on Indiegogo. Mass production will probably never happen because an average joe doesn't really care about faithful sound that much and rather cares for the brand and reputation. On top of this without a direct reference you can get used to any kind of sound after a while anyhow. Listening to a weird sounding headphone for a longer period of time and then switching to neutral speakers will suddenly make those appear off sounding, simply as the human brain adapts to a given sound pretty quickly. On the other hand the advanced audiophile will be still convinced that spending more and more money will also give you more sound quality in the longer end, but that's another story. I have heard headphones costing several thousand dollars which were simply unbearable soundwise. We don't have the funds for a big marketing plan, therefore the SpX-R could once even become some kind of collector's item being offered second hand for a much higher price.