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Old 10-19-2009, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Amy View Post
The X10 is a more accurate sounding headphone, while the S4 is tuned more to compensate for the degraded quality sound of compressed files. If your music source is of the highest quality, the X10 are going to bring out the details of you music more than the S4 and sound much cleaner. The downside of the X10 is if you are listening to compressed MP3s, they are going to be more revealing of any flaws. The S4 does a better job of masking those flaws.

The X10 is a much more comfortable fit, IMO. The body is so slim, it barely touches your ears.

Hope that helps!
Thanks, I appreciate that, Amy. Can you tell me which is more detailed, the X10 or the X5? I'm trying to narrow it down between these two. I want decent bass, but I want a lot of detail as well. Is the X10 bass so massive that it drowns out the other sounds? I'm not a bass head, but I like a good amount of bass. But I like good treble/highs as well. I don't like rolled off highs, like the Shure SE530's.
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