Is it Fjell dark purple? Saw the dark was up to order on their site now.
I'll have purple klippe and dark purple 5deg in a few days. I'll take side by sides .
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https://imgur.com/a/NoOY5It's certainly more silver/lavender, but it still looks very nice. While the color may not be quite as nice, the overall machine quality is fantastic. At least with a Zeal60, all but one of the extra standoffs are actually on screw points on the pcb, so if you can find a plate with all the holes, you can actually add a few extra screws, but even without that, they serve the same purposes as the notches as the top and bottom of the klippe, so I'd say it should be more or less just as stable.
The 5deg is also a good bit lighter than the Klippe (around half a pound) so I imagine the acoustics wont be quite as good, but that more has to do with the design and angle. I also imagine the reduced mass helps with costs.
All that said, I still greatly prefer the LOOKS of the Klippe, BUT I can't really argue that the 5deg is a substantially better value with very little compromise. I'm kinda tempted to get another purple one just to see how the next batch turns out, but probably not for now, so many other things coming soon
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