I will be continuing to listen to them and compare with my 58x tomorrow, but after several hours of listening, I clearly notice a trend so I might as well tell my first day of listening impression to them.
I do not feel I have headphones/earspeakers/stereophone whatever the heck you want to call it on my head. I am not talking about comfort (they are comfortable though), I am talking about sound, this is how immersive, full and open these are. Open as in you could almost remove the cover and it wouldnât change much like I was astonished to have them blasting, remove them from my head and only notice a slight change in volume, thatâs how open they are. They are so open, my pair of 58x sounds like a pair of closed back headphones!
But back to why I am saying I do not feel them when I talk about sound. Thereâs a saying I heard multiple time by audio enthusiast that when you get into this hobby, thereâs a point where you stop to listen to the gears and you JUST listen to the music because thereâs a point where the gears are so good itâs as if like they werenât there. The 95x felt exactly this way: almost ANYTHING I could have possibly thrown at it felt like I was listening to the song and I wasnât even focused on the headphones. Like when stax says earspeakers and koss says stereophone instead of headphones, they are not lying to you: itâs almost speakers on your head.
The soundstage rivals my old pair of 598, but the reason I stopped to listen to the 598 as soon as I got my 58x is because the clarity was SO MUCH better on the 58x, the 598 just sounded garbage in comparison. While the 58x is a very intimate experience, the 95x is just WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDEEEE open to the world, BUT and this is where it blew my mind, without sacrificing much imaging. You can definitely notice the positioning of sound, itâs just not necessarily the focus of this headphone because like I said, the soundstage is wide so you wonât hear whispers in your ear, but you can definitely have no trouble telling what instruments plays where in that wide soundstage.
On to the crux of these headphones: mids and treble clarity. GodâŠthese are so detailed either I had stuff like drums or cymbals SLAP me OR I was able to hear details so easily while I had to try to hear them before. Zeos said that the mids and highs were done âso intentlyâ on these and I now get why: theyâre really clear I would even say crisp sometimes.
However, this headphone has an achilles heel: the bass. Itâs there, but it is very lacking. I tried the earthbound ost on both my 58x and my 95x and the 58x was just plain better on bassy tracks because you could just feel the bass while as the 95x, you would occasionally feel it, but most of the time, it just doesnât do much. Interestingly, on that same ost, it revealed how much details the 95x retrieved because for some reasons, this ost gave me surprising results on the both time I upgraded which is interestingâŠ
So, are these better than the 58x?
No, they are differentâŠwhich is EXACTLY what i was looking for. I now have a pair of headphones that is very intimate with awesome imaging and bass as well as a pair with wide soundstage, good imaging and insane clarity while lacking bass. They compliment each other well which is ideal as I wanted more variety in my music and I got it.
Quick note about build and comfort. Build is okay I am not bothered by the plastic, not even the energizer, itâs more the headband because it doesnât affect comfort, but you can FEEL something inside of it near the center which just makes it awkward to hold in my hands. Comfort is superb, it does take time to adjust to the sheer size of the driver which VERY likely contributed to this amazing combination of soundstage + imaging, but itâs okay, the pads are soft enough so itâs not noticeable. Oh and I LOVE the cable, it flexes nicely 
Are they worth 400 OR 500 usd? Yes, just being able to have a headphones that feels like youâre not wearing one is worth this. I would however recommend 2 things: 1: get a dac with digital volume control because the dual wheels can be annoying what I did is I just maxed it and limit it on my d50s with the remote (I love this dac!) and 2: I would honestly complement it with a headphone of yours that has good bass or at least is more dark because I find the 95x quite bright.
Really happy about them 
