Pandora's Hope Design Guide

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Frequently Asked Questions

• What is the meaning of hopehope and Pandora's Box?

  Hope and Pandora’s Box. Zeus ordered her to be molded out of earth as part of humanity’s punishment for Prometheus’ theft of the secret of fire . According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (in modern accounts often mistranslated as “ Pandora’s box “) releasing all the evils that visit humanity like pain and suffering,...

• What is pandpandoras hope?

  Pandoras Hope is a hardware filter that protects any device that connects to it either through a wire or through the built-in wireless capability.

• Is Pandora's HOPE VI a closed-back headphone?

  Surprisingly, the Pandora Hope VI is a closed-back headphone, which seems an unusual choice given the majority of today’s most expressive and transparent-sounding headphones are open-back designs (although Audeze’s recent, planar magnetic LCD-XC is perhaps the exception to this rule).

• Is the hope in Pandora's jar good or evil?

  The word Hesiod uses for hope, elpis, can also mean 'expectation'. Verdenius states that "elpis may be regarded either (a) as a good, or (b) as an evil". In this view, the hope in Pandora's jar is potential, but for good or evil Hesiod never specified.

• Is Pandora's HOPE VI a closed-back headphone?

  Surprisingly, the Pandora Hope VI is a closed-back headphone, which seems an unusual choice given the majority of today’s most expressive and transparent-sounding headphones are open-back designs (although Audeze’s recent, planar magnetic LCD-XC is perhaps the exception to this rule).

• Are the Pandora HOPE VI worth it?

  The Pandora Hope VI are one of the few high (er)-end headphones that are 1) closed-back and 2) easy to drive from a portable player. They’re more generous with detail retrieval and (the illusion of) transparency than any of the aforelisted sub-$500 models.

• Is the Sony AK120 better than the Pandora HOPE VI?

  Dan Clark’s Alphas still best the Pandora Hope VI for stage depth and tonality but they won’t come alive at the hands of the AK120 or Walkman standing alone. The Sony has the more caffeinated treble of these two portables but it didn’t cause the Final Audio Design cans to become fatiguing.

• When did final audio start making headphones?

  Japan’s Final Audio Design started out with an MC phono cartridge in the 1970s after which they released all manner of two-channel products throughout the 1980s and 1990s. However, they didn’t get busy with headphones until the late noughties.