Just opened these up today and WOW! These headphones look awesome in person. Shiny stainless steel cap of the cups with the cityscape design and swirling ornament. Laser cut designs on the cup have a edge to it. Rubbing your fingers across it it almost feels like it could cut. but it looks classy. The walnut wood on the cup and headband are very nice.
Wide swivel and tilt. The pads have a good quality to them and the pad under the band feels nice and cushiony. They look like Velour. The cable is cloth covered with about 9 foot length and the cityscape design on the strain and title on the plug both metal. strangely enough a 1/4 adapter screws on the plug but i received none with my headphones. I found one in my drawer that screwed on fine. I got 5 pads with this headphone and all looks like good quality.
These headphones sound like 400$ headphones. And easy beats everything in the under 200$ price range and maybe even 300$ range. I tested these on Amazon Ultra HD songs with higher bitrate and frequency than CD quality. First the detail is awesome. very detailed headphones. Competes with higher end headphones. I give it a 10. geared towards bright but not painful. very good treble extension. I dont know how they managed to put this much treble into the drivers yet its not harsh at all. Reminds me of the treble on beyerdynamic dt880, but the body is here also. And easy to drive. ive only gone up to 10 o’clock on my RNHP amp. my lg v20 drives them with sufficient volume but doesn’t get too loud. sounds great on the v20 with its quad DAC.
But just superb treble. excellent. I give it a 10. These drivers remind me of Bio cellulose drivers. Mids are also very present and good i give it a 8. Bass is good also but not as extended as the treble. But good bass about a 9. Sounds like a neutral headphone but with elevated treble and bass. Sounds like a exciting headphone. but at the same time refined. Imaging is fantastic on these, 10! also the spatial recreation are fantastic anther 10! You can clearly hear instruments far to the left or right and clearly defined. Very nice wide soundstage. but not too wide. These headphones sound like they look. Classy.
I’m so blown away about this. I was expecting the worse based on all the skepticism on this. but thank god Zeos was right. These sound wonderful. and yes i think it can trade some blows with Sundara. Even at 200$ these headphones are a bargain and may help to bring prices down on the headphone market. If i can get these at 200$ why buy other more expensive headphones? Get ready for he flood hifiguides. when this headphone gets released a LOT of people are gonna be buying.
