I’m curious about what he has running with em currently? Do you know?
I’ll ask and get back to you. I do know he runs goebels and tads as his main speakers, I don’t know what he’s currently using for electronics
@hifiDJ he’s currently using a CH precision stack for his speakers, and to drive the mysphere he’s using a mastersound evo 845 with some resistors for impedance/safety/limiting
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Thank you for doing this comparison! I’ve been in the market for an upgrade from the Kimber for a long while now and it’s exciting to hear that the Brise will potentially be a major step up!
Also, while @hifiDJ has had my Kimber, I’ve had a little bit of time to go back to the stock cable and I was surprised how kind of, clumsy the stock cable sounds. Individual sounds feel like they’re kind of getting in each other’s way a lot more and it sounds quite a bit more unrefined overall. (Impressions are pretty limited though since I haven’t had a lot of listening time over the past couple weeks due to lots of personal life things.)
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Also, while we’re talking about the MYSPHERE, has anyone else had this bit of plastic come loose from the headband cushion?
It doesn’t actually cause any problems and even if it did, I could probably re-attach it without too much trouble, but I was curious if it was just me. 
Nice, looks solid! Thanks
Not me
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Just you I would expect.
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Haven’t had this happen either.
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Not me either
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Hello hello! All right, so after letting hifiDJ borrow my Kimber Axios Copper cable, he and I did the swap the other direction and I now have the Brise Mikumari Ref.2 cable in my setup. A huge thank you to @hifiDJ for letting me borrow it!
As I mentioned earlier, I do find the Kimber already an improvement over the stock cable:
However, I agree with hifiDJ that the Brise is kinda just better than the Kimber. I spent a few days listening to the Brise (both some critical listening and distracted/working listening), and when switching back to the Kimber, the Kimber sounded both more blunted and more hollow-sounding to my ears compared to the Brise, and it felt to me like the Kimber didn’t have as much depth as the Brise. Also, I’ve heard hifiDJ occasionally talk about looking for an “engaging” quality, and there does seem to be something about the Brise sound that kind of draws you into the music.
However, at least with my ears on my chain, these differences were pretty subtle. I’ve recently swapped around quite a few cables in my setup, and for a point of comparison, my recent digital cable purchases made a more noticeable difference than swapping from the Kimber to the Brise.
Now while hifiDJ and I are running the same amp which should make this a little more apples-to-apples, the rest of our chains are pretty different! He’s using a higher-tier chip DAC and I’m running an R2R DAC, he has a nicer streamer while I’m still running a microRendu, etc, so it’s not unreasonable to assume the difference in the magnitude of what we’re hearing would still be affected by overall resolution, downstream signal quality, or just plain synergy. (Or that I’m a less-experienced listener, which is also probably true.)
I’ve actually been considering upgrading from the Kimber cable for quite some time, and when I borrowed the Brise, I told hifiDJ that if I loved it, I was just going to immediately order one. So it’s kind of weird to be sitting here saying that there’s basically nothing the Kimber does that the Brise doesn’t do better, and yet, I’m probably still going to hold off on buying one. At least for now, that money seems to be better spent upgrading other parts of my chain first.
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Okay, so while we’re here, let’s also talk a little bit of cable ergonomics, because the MYSPHERE is pretty weird in this regard. The MYSPHERE has two 3.5mm jacks, and you can run either a single TRRS cable to one side or you can run two TRRS cables, one on each side. In addition, the plugs are at the bottom of the headband, and because of how you wear the MYSPHERE, the plugs kind of line up with your shoulders and angle backwards. (Most other headphone jacks are in front of your shoulders and angle forwards.)
The stock MYSPHERE cable is a single TRRS and actually has an angle built-in to the cable so you can still run the cable in front of you relatively comfortably, but basically no other aftermarket cable will have that. So for me, I’ve been running these cables behind my shoulder. Note that this can artificially shorten the cable length, so if you’re in the market, you might want to buy a slightly longer headphone cable than you would usually buy.
My Kimber cable uses dual-TRRS 3.5mm connectors and I run it behind my head, so I’ve jokingly referred to it as having a cable ponytail. But apart from being dual-entry, the Kimber has pretty nice ergonomics otherwise; it feels nice in the hand, it doesn’t hold shape much at all, it doesn’t have a splitter so it doesn’t ever catch on stuff, and like, it lays flat and coils nicely and does all the things it needs to do to be well-behaved.
The Brise cable uses a single TRRS 3.5mm connector, so you’re only connecting it to one side of the MYSPHERE, which is nice (though I still run it behind my shoulder so to not strain the cable). The Brise is sleeved and also doesn’t have a splitter, but it’s overall a bit more rigid and is less amenable to being bent or coiled. (I’ve also been babying it maybe a bit more than normal since it doesn’t belong to me.)
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Sweet, thanks for sharing your thoughts! 
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I’ve never tried running a 2x 3.5mm TRS cable. Is it standard if run that way (i.e. Focal)?
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FWIW I’m pretty positive you need 2 TRRS cables, to run it to both sides, unless it’s an SE cable.
That’s at least how my cable is wired.
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lol, actually looking at the cable now, I think I said totally the wrong thing, no idea what my brain was doing. The cables appear to be TRRS whether single or dual:
I’ll go edit the post now, sorry about that!
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Ok, thanks…thought I was missing an opportunity to try other cables more easily.
Finally gave these a serious listen (with the Norne cable, through the LTA high gain headphone output).
I have no idea which cushions I’m using at the moment, but did have a few moments of “huh, so that’s what they’re talking about all the time with these headphones”
I think what I liked the most is how they kind of disappeared on my head at some point. Music was just there, super clear, very accurate representation of the acoustic instruments (guitars sounded fantastic) playing. Just really enjoyable.
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Small update: Since returning the Brise cable, it’s been more obvious that the Kimber cable doesn’t sound quite “right” and with each of my recent chain upgrades (streamer, power cables), it’s become more and more noticeable, so yeah, sometimes you just can’t “unhear” things, lol
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Listening to my MySphere 3.1’s, and I feel like I need to bump this thread to recognize their awesomeness, and push the one headphone we seem to hype excessively on here.
Qobuz → Roon → Optical Rendu → Pacific → EC Studio T → MySphere 3.1 (bass Frames)
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I really need to use mine more. And try the different pads. And with a subwoofer.
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Honestly I’ve never really wanted for Bass on mine, if anything on the DNA, I thought the Bass frames were too Bass forwards. But I could see if you were doing Electronic as a primary Genre, additional sub bass might be nice.
Over the last couple of months they’ve been my go to headphone, and are now easily my favorite, with the Susvara a pretty distant second.
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I thought the bass frames mainly worked better on the 3.2 on solid state amps, but found the transparent frames worked better on the 3.1 on most tube amps
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