I received my pair yesterday and my verdict is VERY positive.
These sounds like you might as well have speakers far away from you. There is no concept of feeling like sounds comes from your head because the soundstage is this wide and big. The treble response is IMPRESSIVE, lots of bright ost hits me much harder on these than say the 58x.
I was using a pair of koss 95x before and I feel these are better in a lot of ways because they have a bigger scale of soundstage, but they also have p good bass response which is something the 95x lacked. Because of this big soundstage, separation is good, but the imaging is also impressively good at this size.
The 58x still sounds different enough for me to try either depending on the situation, but these are my new mains, I love it
Hifiman does a sale on open box and refurbished models. I bought my set for around $600 usd. It has a 1 year warranty as well after you buy it and customer support was really good last time I checked.
I would say tuning refers to the frequency response curve in most cases. Timbre and tone are separate hence the use of separate words for these characteristics. In most cases tuning could be synonymous with sound in the context of a simplistic statement on audio. Given Crinacle is using tuning in an âaudiophile reviewerâ context I would say the breaking out of specific terms like tuning, timbre, and tone all carry their own connotations here. So Iâm simple terms you would be correct in using tuning to imply tone and timbre because those terms all fall under the âsoundâ umbrella.
TLDR; you are both right under certain contexts lol. Also im sitting waiting for breakfast with nothing to do so I went a bit hard on this
First impressions: Bass is more present than I expected. The bass from the huge driver is simply atmospheric. I also bought an HE400SE, and despite the Ananda not being a lot more resolving, it somehow sounds more beautiful. I suspect the 1.5k dip is making it polite
Got these headphones a couple of days ago for a really good price and so far Iâm loving them.
Comfort wise I canât complain at all personally. I did get them brand new and they do have weird smell which for me is not a big deal.
Build quality is not at all what I would expect from a âhigh qualityâ headphone but on the other hand the sound absolutely is.
These are my first open back headphones, when I pictured a high quality open headphone I imagined something along the lines of speaker like soundstage which would envelop the sound all around me far and wide while sounding clear, crisp, and most importantly detailed so I can listen through my whole playlist and find out things about my favorite songs which I never knew before.
IMO these headphones sound really different as you move up in gear. Replacing the stock cable to a better balanced one makes them sound pretty different too.
Completely agree with the weak dynamics part (guess you could also call it blunted). I donât like bright headphones so I was also turned off by the treble forwardness (compared to bass) as well. Canât say much else cause I didnât want to spend more time with it (and yeah, it did sound big (âwall of soundâ) due to its size).
These have more soundstage than Dt1990 pro.
These are easier to drive
These have a more neutral and better tuning than the treble monster beyer
These are not as well built
It is easier to get cables for ananda
Ananda has a softer impact, but more atmospheric bass
Short impressions OG vs Stealth: no visual difference on the phones themselves at all, packaging says âStealth Editionâ, volume is the same or nearly identical, production date March '22, so far I prefer the OG for the staging capabilities as explained in this video (even though itâs the Arya review, it still applies imo)
how was the overall timbre vs the XS? i always thought the XS had pretty solid timbre for what it was which honestly was what surprised me most about the XS.
To the people here having listened to both the Arya and the Ananda. How much better does the Arya sound compared to the Ananda (as I know there are diminishing returns)? Thanks!
