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reminded of the overarching importance of the last link on the audio chain.
With zero warm up, I experienced Immense soundstage, with back/front cues easily heard on various classical selections on Qobuz. Highs were crystalline, rich, extended; midrange: Callas, Tebaldi, and... Robin Lane sounded better than I've ever heard them; bass: Mic's drums sounded, well, percussive throughout "Then Play On."
These are magical instruments, deserving of all the kudos they've received. I've owned Koss (ESP9, if memory serves), Stax electrostatics (cannot remember the model but they were over 1000 bucks, 35 years ago...), and Sennheiser 650s most recently. The X are another class, another animal, altogether. After a full day of listening, I returned them.
I just could not support their weight: they are very, very heavy. The head straps do their job--- perhaps it's my 72-year old neck, but I couldn't listen for very long, at a time. And I couldn't recline with them on, either, very comfortably. It is reported that they easily can be driven by a smartphone, but walking around with them would be absurd.
If the weight doesn't bother you, I don't see how you could expect a set of headphones to sound better.
Systrem: Streamed from Samsung s10e to Audiolab 6000N to headphone jack of MAC 1900 receiver to the Xs.
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I thought Audeze cans were dark and bassy??
Cut to razor sounding violins
I had a pair of Audeze LCD2's, that pretty much describes them....darkish for sure.
I found the HiFiman HE400 to actually sound better.
However I can't say all of Audeze headphones are dark and bassy....at least my LCDi4s are not.
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I auditioned the LCD 2 or maybe the 3s (can't remember which number) when I was auditioning headphones. They were much darker sounding than the LCD-x. I ended up purchasing the x's and love them!
They are definitely heavy, but it doesn't bother me particularly, but can understand how they may be uncomfortable for some.
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