Thank you I truly appreciate it, I’ll try the cable it comes with it if it becomes too intolerable I’ll buy the vivo cable. Might buy it anyways for the better impedence.
The cable isn’t terrible, I do notice It occasionally, it’s made worse because the connectors project down so far under the earcups.
Yeah the design of how the connectors and cables interact with the headphone cups can also determine if microphonics are present.
Hey everyone,
I’m currently selling my Ether CX’s mine are in absolute mint condition. They’re unfortunately just not for me, the pads are barely broken in. Though the drivers are perfectly broken in as it sat connected to my amp when I was working listening to music. All original accessories come with the Ethers, bag, adapters everything etc.
Note that im in Australia, ill be happy to send these internationally and price is 850 USD. Feel free to DM for anymore details
So a new unit is only 900 on drop right now, so unless drops shipping is more then 150 dollars you will prob want to lower your asking price as I don’t think anyone would bight other wise.
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true ill drop the asking price
you should make a post on the reddit AV exchange. hifi guides doesn’t have a dedicated buy sell trade section but reddit has a lot of sub forums for that sort of thing. either way its going to suck for you as shipping too and from Australia is expensive.
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its the worst plus on this one I got hit with a fat 200 aud on top for importing an item over 1k aud rip. Oh well someone will get a nice set of cans
at some point it gets cheaper to just take a cruise to someplace to buy the goods and take them home with out telling the government.
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The free market always wins
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What pads have you guys tried? They are finally breaking in and the sound is getting there. I am considering a pad swap for comfort and maybe a little soundstage. I know these will never be super wide but on some tracks it feels like the music is being shot into my brain lol.
I was thinking about the Dekoni Hybrids for BD DT series headphones. Are they and thicker than the stock CX pads? Sometimes my ears touch the tuning felts. Speaking of which, do you think the tuning felts will work with these pads? Any other suggestions to consider?
I’m at that magical part of my burn in that it sounds worse than the first listen. Regardless, not complaining because these are super comfy.
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What would be good closed back set of cans that isolate well around or below this price range? I’ve heard these leak a bit of sound
They don’t really leak sound.
The big knock on them is they require significant volume to sound their best, certainly more than I’m comfortable listening at. Without the volume more complex mixes tend to sound very confined.
My understanding is that the Aeon 2 Closed don’t have that same limitation, I know @M0N prefers them.
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These headphones take over 200 hours to break in. Maybe longer, I’m still working on mine and they’re getting more enjoyable. As far as sound leakage, not terrible as long as you’re not blasting them.
Yeah the aeon 2 closed seem to be the better pair. I love the opens and the closed are supposed to be the same frequency response overall. They are currently 15 percent of on his website. About 760 after the discount. Worth it.
Pulled these out a couple days ago for the first time in a while, coming off of about 10 days on the Nighthawks. I was surprised to be reminded of how extended the bass is with decent slam. Coming from the Nighthawks, I somewhat anticipated being disappointed by the bass, but was instead pleasantly surprised. I’ve been trying to hear the dynamic compression that has been a complaint for these (and with DCA in general), but have either already acclimated and don’t hear it, or just haven’t trained my ears well enough to identify it yet. Anyone have suggestions on tracks to demo specifically for this purpose?
Side note…listening to the Bob Marley Essentials playlist on Tidal this afternoon. Anyone else ever notice the out of tune (flat A string) bass on Stir It Up - Original Album Version? As much as it kinda made me cringe, couldn’t help but continue listening to it to make sure I’m not going crazy.
So, I recently purchased The Ether Flow C and the Ether Flow Open backs along with a set of Ether CX’s. I must say, there is a far different sound from each. I think the Ether CX has better imaging, but the bass / sub is far less pronounced and underwhelming compared to the original Flow C / Flow Open. I much prefer the Ether Flow C / Flow Open in comparison. (Also did a 200 hour burn in for the Ether CX’s)
Next purcahse will likely be the Ether 2’s to see how they compare.
Havent tried the Aeons, Maybe I’ll pick those up too.
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Have you tried out using the tuning filters and the differences between those?
I’m less of a fan of the tuning filters, but yes, for the CX’s I used the white filters which give it a warmer sound overall. Ultimately, I ended up disliking the filters, I felt it removed detail from the CX’s (which is literally the reason I like them so much).
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