I think you like a lot of us have tried many cans only to keep finding something missing... that's what drives the hobby. It may be that you need several cans to have everything you're looking for. From what you have said though I think you should give LCD-4's a listen. I love mine and is seems...

Lcd-4 especially if you use the audeze plug in

If you are suspicious at all I would wait. Used LCD-4's at the 2k price come around pretty often. A good LCD-4 is well worth 2k though.

I purchased and used the reveal+ stuff in other programs (JRiver) and unless I was using the program incorrectly... I really wasn't impressed with the results... As far as I know you cannot use VST3 plugins with ROON so if you wanted to play with it you would have to use another program to do so.

The Reveal plugin is a VST3 plugin that works with other applications. ROON already has Audeze presets that are the same thing as the Reveal Plugin. In your DSP settings inside ROON you can add the Audeze presets, select LCD-4, then while still in the Audeze presets towards the bottom of the...

They'll sell super fast! No one can compete with that lol

I was going to do the same with mine but with a lot of shippers are no longer implimenting signature required due to covid-19 I'm cautious to and may wait until all this blows over... just a heads up.

Next time you are in roon go to your DSP settings, Audeze presets, LCD-4 then at the bottom of the screen in blue is a Customize button. set the Mix to 100% wet, and change the filter to Audeze Linear. It adds a Short delay when starting music to do all the processing but I believe it makes a...

I must have pushed the filters a bit harder than intended earlier... the lcd-4 without the filters is still an amazing headphone, I would still own it if the filters weren't out, I just think it makes the headphone better.

In my opinion all LCD headphones have some tonal timbre issues... some more so than others. I own a pair of LCD-4's and find that the reveal plugin helps to alleviate this on the 4's. Running reveal at 100% wet really does a great job of making all instruments sound natural. If possible I would...

SPL Phonitor X w/ Schiit Yggy Unison A2 is superb.

If I couldn't hear it then I wouldn't care. But depending on the rest of your chain (if youre buying a $2k+ DAC then im guessing its pretty decent) you can definitely hear noise. It's very apparent.

Looking forward to hearing some thought on the HSA-1a!

I was only trying to convey one very basic principle of noise. Thank you for making a more detailed explanation as well!

That's not quite how noise works... any conductor or resistor creates noise. And there are plenty of those in any electronic system.