Let me start this review with some information about the company that made these headphones, Philips. The company that invented the CD, the first radio etc. As a Dutch guy, I'm very connected with this company. I’m studying at the Technical University of Eindhoven, where Philips has their main office and invented all their breakthroughs. This review is totally independent however.    Philips only started to make high-end headphones three years ago, with the X1. It was made by some very young engineers in Belgium, and auditioned by the “golden ears”...

Let me start this review with my personal experience of Denon equipment. In the past few years every device and headphone of Denon disappointed me in someway. The cd and blu-ray players in failing within the first year, the headphones in sounding too bright with an overbearing bass.    Nevertheless, I wanted to try out this new “Music Maniac” headphone, as it didn’t appear to be made by Fostex, but by Denon themselves, they looked great and were using a new type of driver.   At this moment I have the following headphones: the Fidelio x2, B&W P7...