ZMF Verite Closed

Okay so now to wrap up this review, this was my first experience with a ZMF headphone and aside from knowing that it would look pretty, I really didn'...

I had the opportunity to try to the ZMF Verite Closed a couple months ago and fell in love with the sound. It was everything I wanted a headphone to be.

The Verites do not clamp as hard and the cups are larger, which are more comfortable to me since I wear glasses. Not only is the sound a step up for my favorite genre of music, but these things are a work of art. The camphor burl wood is just stunning with the rose gold grill. I am beyond pleased with this purchase and I can already tell these will be my new go-to headphones in the future.

I never did use this headphone for gaming, and I admit that I don’t game as much as I once did in my younger days. I did however find imaging and instrument separation to be good and comparable to other headphones in this price range and what I’d expect from Audeze. The soundstage wasn’t exceptionally wide, but it didn’t sound closed in, or intimate either. I think it’s a good listening width and depth was present and did not sound flat.

This headphone is the 2nd best headphone I have heard whether they were open back or closed back. I ended up getting rid of most of the collection since these satisfied me in every way. The highs are nice and sparkly (which I like) but are also well balanced and never sibilant in any way.

Anyway, they are the best headphones I've heard and owned. I've heard a few, Utopia, Stellia, D8000, Empyrean, Stax SR007, SR009, Verite, Verite Closed. Yet to hear a higher end Hifiman or Audeze though.

My Verite Closed arrived on Wednesday and now that I've had some time with them, I can safely say these are one of the nicest things I've ever owned. The Manchurian Ash cups look and feel incredible, and the Shou Sugi Ban burnishing process turned out better than I ever could have imagined. I'll be posting a full review discussing sound, comfort, and more in the next day or so, but the short version is that they are incredibly comfortable, and sound amazing, even better than I was expecting. If I had one complaint it would be that because I bought these during ZMF November, they came with the stock cable and its frankly a shit cable given the $2500 price tag.

I had been using some $30 Sony IEM I bought from Walmart (no hate, they have served well for years) for my bedtime listening but I've been itching for something that can give me the same joy I get from my LCD-X, so here we are with Verite Closed. I don't see myself ditching either of these headphones for a long time, or the rest of my life.

ZMF Verite closed, feliks audio echo, rme adi dac 2 fs. If I only get one headphone, I'd rather have a closed one so I don't need a silent room to fully enjoy it, and the VC is the only closed back headphone I've tried that doesn't sound closed. It's also just a great headphone.