Frank, your post is helping. Wouldn't be any fun, if this was easy. I've got to go now though...

OK. Anyone know the Isabellina? I have the impression (only from reading) that Red Wine Audio's house-sound deliberately departs from neutrality into the warm and "comfortable" region.

Quote:   I read this as saying people, including yourself, are prone to hyperbole when, at higher price levels, they discover a component that makes any sort of improvement. I have no problem with that and it's great when you share your excitement, but it makes buying decisions based (in...

I suppose my point is that it has to be a really crappy source that won't benefit from LCD-2s at all. I'm talking copies of old 78 records or something like "In a gadda da vida" here. Perhaps also badly compressed MP3s (I don't use them). The LCD-2s are so good at resolving timbre, they tend to...

Quote:   Of course they can't. But they do show my sources haven't been the limiting factor. Furthermore they reminded me how easily tape (and vinyl) can compete with CD, even when it's a copy. Yes the analogue sources have all the obvious problems, some tape hiss in this case. The tape I...

Well, it's a shame things are so polarized. The LCD-2s themselves are my case in point. I mentioned them to a colleague, who thought I was crazy spending $1,000 on a headphone. He's got no idea what he's missing. I have no wide experience, but have not heard this level of resolution from...

Hi Vkamicht. Since you also use an EQ, I'm wondering how you feel about cables. Do you feel a cable upgrade can bring anything to the table beyond what can be achieved by tweaking the EQ curve?   I've been a long time sceptic about any upgrades to my Mif-Fi system, not just cables. Recent...

Quote: I am a fan of the LCD-2s. They do things that my cheaper Sennheiser HD-650s plain don't, see my post a few pages back. I have not heard the Edition 10 nor any other competing headphones. That said, I assume from Skylab's post that perhaps the frequency balance of the LCD-2 is putting...

Reading back over this thread I see some people questioning whether the LCD-2s would be a worthwhile upgrade or whether they're past the curve of diminishing returns. Or perhaps comparable results can be achieved with a different headphone/amp combination, hence the LCD-2s would be nothing...

@sokolov91: I actually agree with the main thrust of what you're saying. However there was someone here who immediately said "burn-in". I'm trying to accommodate them. And yes, I really did put the CD-player on auto-repeat overnight and am planning to do so for another few nights. I was...

@rymd: If it's anything like the place I work for, the sales and marketing people have to say that, regardless of the reality or what the techies think. They probably believe it too. On a related note, I couldn't tell the Benchmark DAC1 apart from my Panasonic DVD-S47, used as a CD player. It's...

Yes, I believe the ADZ-5 is the new stock cable.

A first impression of the ADZ-5 cable. Before that, let me say I got my LCD-2s about 1 month ago and I love them. I run them from a Benchmark DAC1 and they have been the single most worthwhile, most immediately obvious upgrade I have ever made. I find them in a completely different league to my...