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[size=x-small]A movie soundtrack is not a faithful recording of real life sound and highly artificial. You hear what the filmmakers and sound engineers want you to think your're hearing - sound of a waterfall is normally muti-tracks of small amount of water running because we are not used to hearing large volume of water running. The real thing doesn't sound real enough for human ears in this case.If you reference what you hear through your headphone to real life sounds and find it spot on, your brain is matching two different things and concludes that they are identical. What you hear on the street is definitely not the same as what's on any movie soundtrack.[/size]
[size=x-small]The reason I am pointing this out is because this is a good example of how a lot of people have already decided the LCD-2 sound is neutral and based everything else on this "fact". I do find it troublesome. Like n2rdling said, there were a few people in the meet that did have negative opinions about the LCD-2 but threads like this one seem to be flooded with supporters' positive impressions. Nothing wrong with people liking the headphones, but can we not assume that the LCD-2 sound is the "standard"? [/size]
In fact, I think the LCD2 critics are far more aggressive than appreciative owners. I merely aired one subjective opinion...and this is the response, not very civil or nice. No one stops anybody from airing their negative opinions from a meet in this thread, there is no evidence that this occurs. What you and nerdling want is asking for something silly, LCD2 owners generally subsrcibe to LCD2 threads and you would like them to stop participating. The reason more go on about the LCD2 than the O2 is simple, the O2 BHSE that is insurmountable costs shy of 10 times the price of ownership of an LCD2...do the sums, do the logic, and expect the expected.
This is why I specifically mentioned a busy metropolis, so more people have a fixed, easily accessible reference...most busy cities have the same acoustic environment that a lot of people are very familiar with. This is not hard to record and for the audio engineer to make this as easily related to as possible in a movie theatre calibrated to flat. It is essential for the immersion of good movies, as in Academy Award winning offerings. I do not suggest the latest gun totting exploding block buster, these are fake sounds that cannot be related to by anyone.
I merely suggest this method as another data point, and not the supreme conclusion.
@ Purrin: Regarding your comments about not being to hear the fuzzy details...it just sounds to me that you are used to some of the distortions present in audio reproduction. My experience with acoustic instruments and percussion do not have these fuzzy detials...these are always evident to me on most speakers and headphones, that suggest to me transients that are a trace smeared. This is why I like my LCD2s, transients and dynamic impact is very cleanly rendered...as in I have never heard anything like it before (IMO for you, a fact to me)
With regards to the congestion you hear, I subscribe to Currawongs theory that we are always used to a midbass hump on headphones, the lack of this hump, or refusal to start falling off after about 300-400hz contributes to this phenomena, this is a subjecteive HRTF tonal balance issue, others, like me and my hearing loss, have no such issues with congestion. Merely theorising here.
