Thoughts on Elegia brand new for $400? Iād be chaining them to a D90/A90 stack.
How is the seal with glasses?
Thatās the one iffy area. Multiple mentions out in the wild about bad seal with glasses (I donāt wear so I canāt comment).
Thank you. $400 is such a good deal though. Choices!
I canāt speak for everyone, but Iām one of the people @A_Jedi mentioned that wears glasses and just could not for the life of me get a good seal with these. Iād take my glasses off, put on the Elegia, and theyād sound great! The second I slide my glasses on underneath the bass took a complete nosedive and I might as well have been wearing Sundaras. Tons of EQ to get things kinda where they should be? But ultimately ended up selling them to a friend because they just didnāt seal right for me.
Now I donāt wanna scare you too much because other forum members here also wear glasses and did not have the same experience as me; I can only speak for myself.
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Thanks. I would be stretching my budget anyway right now, but ā¦such a discountšæ
I pulled the trigger, I donāt wear glasses and I figure if I donāt like them and this sale ends/goes out of stock Iāve probably got a good chance at getting my investment back.
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GL. Hope you enjoy
regarding the glasses situation, me and 2 friends all use glasses, one of them has a fairly thick frame, and none of us had any problems with the seal, also note that the three of us have quite large heads.
I previously had the elegias on a loan for about a month, Iām very excited because my friend loaned them again for about 3 months until he returns from a trip. Iām temporarily joining the elegia club. 
There are several records that sound way better on the elegias than on anything else Iāve tried.
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Thank you for responding. I donāt need it right now.
Just got a pair, $400 sale. I donāt have a dedicated headphone amp at the moment so I plugged them into my basx A100 (un-jumpered) and was somewhat disappointed. They sounded really stuffy and inconsistent if that makes sense. Figured they would just work as many reviews say they work on just about everything.
Enter Mr.BTR5, Iāve been using him for my iems and decided to hook up the Elegias. Big difference, they opened up and Iām very pleased with the sound. I get a good seal so bass is present and enjoyable.
Iām waiting on my XDUOO MT-602 to arrive in a few weeks. But thatās just a stop gap untill I can make a decision on an amp.
Any suggestions for an amp that pairs well with a SMLS SU9 dac? Was thinking $450-500 price point.
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I heard that the basx A100 un-jumpered doesnāt sound good, that you need to use the jumpers to unleash it, for sensitive headphones of course they recommend to use it with a source where you can control the volume, I think you can do that with with SMLS SU9 dac, just remembered to turn down the volume on the basx A100 and then start slowly turning the volume up to find the sweet spot between the SMLS SU9 dac and the basx A100 (turning the volume up on both sides - slowly), but again make sure the basx A100 has the volume down.
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Makes sense. Think Iāll get those jumpers going this evening and see how it goes.
Thanks!
Youāre hearing mismatched impedances. The headphone output on the A100 has a very high output impedance and the Elegia is a low-impedance can. Therefore a disproportionately large proportion of the energy the amplifier is producing is being dissipated by the output resistance, and less is making it the Elegiaās drivers. The bass probably also sounds really sloppy and bloated.
Are you using a DAC? I found the iFi Zen DAC + Schitt Asgard 3 amp to be lots of fun with the Elegia. You can turn on the Zenās bass boost and the Elegia becomes a lot of fun for bassy music, or turn it off and itās pretty good for acoustic music too.
Makes sense, bass was def sloppy. Yeah I have an SU9 dac, still trying to figure out an amp to pair with it. Iāll look into the Asgard3 lots of ppl recommend it.
Thanks!
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So I just ordered a hart audio cable. This stock cable is pretty much unusable. I love the connectors and split since they look and feel really nice, but the actual cable itself is hard, stiff, janky, sproingy, and very microphonic.
I actually like the 8 core Grado cable more than this. While itās not detachable, everything else about it is at least not as bad if not actually good. Itās softer, more flexible, not at all sproingy, and the least microphonic cable I have ever experienced. It also feels like it could survive even the most aggresive desk chair wheel.
Shure the Grado cable is janky, but it is still twice as easy to deal with as this focal cable. Focal should be ashamed that Grado has better cables than them.
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This is perhaps the best description of it lol.
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I just opened my Elegia up today. Already have a Hart HC-9 from my Sundara, didnāt bother pulling the stock Focal cable out of the caseā¦
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