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I'm officially selling my LCD-2 for high tier Grados. Thats how you know my Gradophilia is getting out of control. I swear it's almost sexual sometimes... I know my RS-2's catch me looking at them in a weird way sometimes at night.
I'm going to miss detachable cables, but honestly I'm pretty guilty of drinking the kool-aid when it comes to gear. I've spent like the last couple months reading LCD-2 reviews and somehow convincing myself I'm wrong.. I went to a local Grado dealer, popped on 'dem RS-1's which I haven't honestly heard since like 2008, and I knew I was making the right choice.
Wow - whirlwind times - thought you were still in HiFiMan HE-500 country?
Sorry mate, looks like I've missed some of your updates in other threads, did not know you were giving
the Audeze a go.
I sat there the other day giving the LCD2's and LCD3's a rip through a pretty tasty setup consisting of the
Esoteric D07x DAC balanced out to a Ray Samuels Dark Star and for me personally, if the
material was rap or anything electronic then they really did make a lot of sense - the way they conveyed
pounding PraT and exuded 'the beats' on the track was in my opinion exemplary. The problem was when
I reverted to more organic material like slow female vocals (particularly in a live setting) or jazz.
I found them to be too subdued and missing a lot of atmosphere compared to the PS1000 or even
the HD800, for the lack of better word - they were missing a 'natural sounding component'.
The other issue is that the Audeze do change considerably from amp to amp - it is amazing
to hear the same track on a LCD2/3 on let's say a warm, tubey Woo Audio WA2 and then
quickly switch out to a Ray Samuels - the chase for big power on these cans is to ensure
they sound clean with lots of pace and perfect timing - I believe it's their swan song - not
the sound stage, nor the treble extension.