From past statements about smas quality, I’ll take that with a pinch of salt but I’ll remain hopeful.
If it is correct though, i think you should advise whoever is in charge to stop money grabbing & cost saving & just implement it as standard. Refund those who paid extra (massively unlikely from pimax defensive refund track record) & give this high priced headset the audio it deserves.
I know the chances of this are practically zero but this is a move that would get rid of the poor standard audio stigma & pay off in the end through reviews & increased sales
I’ve got a good memory & I’ll find it.
But nice to see you avoid everything else said & turn up being passive aggressive.
You & sweviver made the smas sound very good on many occasions.
Then in users hands it gets described as rift at best, similar to go, like placing a phone on your head & having an AM radio on in the background
I only compared it to the CES version we showed which some people said they could not hear it. I said it was louder than the CES version and said it’s nothing like the DMAS or Index. I said “nothing at all like those”.
I even literally put up the frequency response chart.
Here is where I show the actual frequency response and compare the production version to the CES version:
For earlier version I could only report what I was seeing at the time (which was last summer). In the middle of last year the samples were ultimately what evolved into the KDMAS.
In that original version we do talk about it being the version backers would get.
I honestly don’t care what was reported there.
I’ve followed pimax progress extensively.
Pimax day streams, q&a after videos, read through all comments, watch every pimax video from every ces, all review videos, sebastiens videos, interviews, read through practically everything in the forums.
Believe it or not, i really care about how well pimax do & im interested in their products & progress.
Unortunately I find myself complaining more than saying good things.
This isn’t any agenda. I just say what I see. Praise when things are good & make it known when things are bad.
We’ve had positive hype about smas several times (which i will dig out) & unfortunately now its in users hands, its all fallen flat
What are you even talking about?
I dont care about that because you are deflecting. As usual.
Who said anything about only 2 mas?
So when you previously told us the smas was “quite amazing”
Saying you could only report on what you were seeing at the time?
So you’re saying The version from pimax day was that good but they downgraded it?
Not deflecting at all - I actually put the frequency response chart up of the production unit. Nothing ambiguous about that. Of course you ignore that and go way back to almost 1 year ago when I was talking about a prototype. Do you even realize what you are doing?
So who’s deflecting - you who points out a discussion about a prototype from almost 1 year ago and ignores subsequent developments and data? or me who actually shows the frequency response chart of the production device (and you ignore)?
I pointed out 1 example where you made it sound really great from a year ago.
The tone only started changing when people stared testing them with their own ears
I don’t think the smas audio is bad at all, it’s a notch above the quest. It helps a lot if you adjust the steam audio settings manually. Evaluating that is clearly a subjective thing but some people do indeed place more value on very strong bass performance which the smas does not possess.
People were asking for above the ear, over the ear and on the ear. The above the ear needed to be small enough where you could fit headphones under it if you so wished. (some have very high end headphones).
Lots of iterations existed before CES but the CES version ended up too quiet and the driver a notch *below the quest and the sound chamber wasn’t finished yet. After CES it received the sound chamber and better drivers which improved the volume a great deal. The housing parts were then reduced in size and the thumbscrew added so the assembly could be quickly upgraded if the user wish it.
The hard part on what ended up being the KDMAS was getting it to work well with all the headsets. We experimented a lot with different drivers and ear pads to wind up with the final version.
