Fedex clowns updated my delivery date to oct 1st this morning, then at the last hour decided they couldn’t make it and set my delivery date back to monday. I had it held at Fedex and I plan to pick it up myself tomorrow hopefully.
At $172 If Pimax won’t refund if I dont like them I wonder if someone on Craigslist would buy them from me.
Edit: Didn’t happen Fedex held it but I can’t pick up until monday. I may as well have had them delivered.
If you currently have a SMAS, there is basically no way a DMAS could disappoint. I mean really, I could walk down the road into a dollar shop and pickup a $2 set and it would be an upgrade.
Yeah bass response is always going to be better with closed ear headphones. No way around that. The thing that the Index speakers excelled at for me was providing a wide sound stage. The bass was okay but definitely wasn’t one of its strong points. The sound stage and comfort of not having phones touching my ear made it my favorite in spite of the bass not being as good as what I get from the Vive DAS. I still miss them.
Yes everything is pros vs cons and I think alot of people are expecting the index speakers to defy physics.
The main draw for the Index speakers is that you get believable sound that seems like its coming from around you in your environment. And without the headphones touching your ear you begin to believe it.
Of course if you have screaming kids around or Airplanes flying overhead constantly this will ruin your immersion
Here’s a short video review of the DMAS and DCS that I happened upon this morning.
A balanced look at the pros and cons it seems. I personally really dislike having to put on earphones in VR, or having them touching my ears. I’m looking forward to when mine arrive in the mail.
Take a closer look at the hinge, the back part that is connected to the metal rod is flat, making it sturdy “the part that really sucks about the SMAS plastic hinges”