Nice to see some early word on these. I think iāll hold my pre-order, they sound super promising. The comments on bass response are interesting to hear. I havenāt heard many headphones that can be very bassy, with any level of detail down there that donāt give something up in other ranges.
Tried pad swapped 1990s, CA Cascades, etcā¦ they either sound great in the top 3/4 or are just outrageous bass monsters. Elex seems to walk the finest line here, of anything iāve heard anyway.
Like most people on the discussion board on Drop, I wished they came or had an option for balanced cables. (BTW new to the audio world). I did play my order anyway and I am looking forward to plugging them into the Zen DAC/AMP 6XX. I was hoping that Zeos or Joshua used the Zen 6xx combo to hear their thoughts.
Iāve got no interest in the HD800 series either. I demoād them about 4 years ago and after reading all the hype and love for them on Reddit and then only found them to be āmehā. live n learnā¦
if the bass is still shit on my 8xx im going to be dissapointed ngl, but they didnt change the driver i donāt think, may be wrong, but i think they have just elevated the bass somehow in another way.
would love to hear from someone with expertise on this
what does he mean here? because if he is talking about custom cables there is tons of them, just as much supported third party cables on these as with any other high end headphone i feel like. he could mean something else but idk
i donāt normally do this but iām going to make an insertion here, that thats what faked soundstage does, it makes the things that shouldnt sound wide sudenly sound wide, mainly because of the physical distance from the ear to the driver, iām sure there is more than one way of theorizing about that and iād be all for hearing an alternative take on what others think about it.
on a slightly different note, im not sure if my understanding of depth makes any sense in how i relate it to soundstage in the sense that ādepthā gives audio the ability to travel ACROSS the total width of the soundstage but at any spesific point, would love to be corrected and learn more on this, iām not a very experienced individual,
i guess what iām actually trying to convey here is my underlying question if thats what people mean when they refer to depth
lol compared to someone like fostex? hell no, not to my ears atleastā¦ They do fantastic mids and a good balanced tone but bass is a sore spot imo. Even the Sennheisers that are bassy are quite awful with intensive bleeding and muddyness. Will gladly take my focals for bass over senn
though I will be ordering a pair of these soon enough to check out. Probably alongside that new schiit lokiā¦ need that
ehh even in the comments for that video he tells people not to buy them and that they can probably get the tuning changes themselves with light mods and that its not different enough to buy if you already have 800s. he also talks a bit of shit about design choices and doesnāt go full shill. heās definitely been a lot shillier in the past than this.
He never really liked the hd800s but these, these are good.
He also said if you donāt have the hd800S and youāre going to mod them then you should just get the 8xx. Talks about the Honda civic analogy, etc.
And how the 8xx works so well with tubes. As if this is new and wasnāt the case with the hd800S.
Then goes on to link everything possible in the description related to the hd800s/8xx. Even the radiance, which to him is the closed version
Come on man, you gotta admit, itās pretty cringe.
hmm this review was all over the place a bit at the same time stating what we already knowā¦ suppose I will wait on others to get their hands on this to get a more indepth review because zeos told me practically nothing
I have it built up in my head that theyāre like the clear mg tuning upgrade since the og clear and og 800s are kind of tinny and need some help tuning wise.
