Plenty of nice reviews, so I am just filling the points I think needs to be highlighted.
The cans are small for an over ear, so make sure your ears are small enough, and fit inside these.
The fabric covering the speakers, inside the cans, comes loose. It needs to be glued back on again, as the set looses it main character without it. That fabric is a vital part of the design.
The reproduction is one of musicality. It is targeted at portable equipment, with all that comes. The typical poor highs, which is solved by dampening the highs a bit, and extension is a bit poor. Articulation and separation of portable gear is a bit lacking, and thus not where these excel the most. Dynamic range is also typically limited, so these are not really great at dynamic range either, when teaming up with great gear.
They do excel by harmonics. There is nothing that stands out, even with really, really, poor gear. Where there is any soundstage, these will bring it out, if there is any separation these are great fun. They appear to be tuned to provide the most of ordinary portable gear, and on that, they deliver like nuts. If some gadget, like my Toshiba laptop, sound awful with these, well, then there is no rescue. If you got a smartphone, these will bring the best out of them.
If you enjoy the music, like to stamp the beat, like to feel like a need to sing along, or snap your fingers, these will take you there. With a crappy smartphone. (Just not too crappy)
It is obtained by softening the highs, and the attack of any metal, like strings on a guitar, completely lacks any harshness. The same goes for perk. But that is needed, and what is reproduced, is harmonic in nature. Same goes for like Spotify, in which the perk distortion and articulation distortion is rendered like it is not there, because everything appears to be harmonic, nothing sticks out. Once connected to great gear, and compared to say a HD800, the Denon gets a beating. The traits that makes it sing for portable, does not work for high end gear. It's like a rapper trying to do classical: It kills the rapping, but not so much for the classical part.
The cans are small for an over ear, so make sure your ears are small enough, and fit inside these.
The fabric covering the speakers, inside the cans, comes loose. It needs to be glued back on again, as the set looses it main character without it. That fabric is a vital part of the design.
The reproduction is one of musicality. It is targeted at portable equipment, with all that comes. The typical poor highs, which is solved by dampening the highs a bit, and extension is a bit poor. Articulation and separation of portable gear is a bit lacking, and thus not where these excel the most. Dynamic range is also typically limited, so these are not really great at dynamic range either, when teaming up with great gear.
They do excel by harmonics. There is nothing that stands out, even with really, really, poor gear. Where there is any soundstage, these will bring it out, if there is any separation these are great fun. They appear to be tuned to provide the most of ordinary portable gear, and on that, they deliver like nuts. If some gadget, like my Toshiba laptop, sound awful with these, well, then there is no rescue. If you got a smartphone, these will bring the best out of them.
If you enjoy the music, like to stamp the beat, like to feel like a need to sing along, or snap your fingers, these will take you there. With a crappy smartphone. (Just not too crappy)
It is obtained by softening the highs, and the attack of any metal, like strings on a guitar, completely lacks any harshness. The same goes for perk. But that is needed, and what is reproduced, is harmonic in nature. Same goes for like Spotify, in which the perk distortion and articulation distortion is rendered like it is not there, because everything appears to be harmonic, nothing sticks out. Once connected to great gear, and compared to say a HD800, the Denon gets a beating. The traits that makes it sing for portable, does not work for high end gear. It's like a rapper trying to do classical: It kills the rapping, but not so much for the classical part.
