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Headphoneus Supremus
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looks like the same translation... he must have used those to translate for himself.
Anyone have an indication that these will compete/best the HiFiMan 1000's?
well as far all the news we have abt them is that the lcd-z is not aimed to replace the audeze lcd-3 and will not be the new flagship model. shld b smtg similar to the lcd-x so shld be like 'mid-tier' within audeze's own line up.
...sooo most likely no. unlikely to even best the lcd3 in terms of price or performace. they r geared for a different niche w their crazy high impedance, so like ppl who have nice otl amps.
Agreed. I think these are aimed at a specific amp type, mainly OTLs, as most solid state would probably struggle to produce the current to drive these. I may just make my 6/12SN7 based otl amp when these come out
Was also thinking, since damping factor is very important, why didn't manufacturers make high impedance cans long time ago? Costly to make, too much wire to be wound on the voice coils?
The high impedance also helps in studios if you connect many headphones to the same amp unit - it pulls less current from the amp which is usually easier to manage. Think of how many amps are current limited in power below 32 ohms. Having just a few M50s or AKGs could throw you down in the <10ohm range, which is really hard to drive. But with Beyers or Sennys, it would be hard to get near that range.
The increase in impedance doesn't come with an equally matched increase in sensitivity in most cases, so low impedance helps headphones to be driven from more sources (phones, DAPs, laptops, which are usually low powered). This also puts more pressure on amp designers to have a low output impedance to help with damping.
Idk about cost, and smoothness claims are hard to verify. People claim it with the 32/80/250/600 ohm Beyer models, but it could be that the coils are slightly different in overall structure, a pure effect of damping, some of those cans have different pads... etc.