I'm having an odd sort of issue. I bought a stepped attenuator and wired them to the volume pot pads, and it works great. However, the first couple steps of volume and the last step are really noisy, and when the attenuator is set to these positions I can pick up radio (like, it's clear enough I...

How's the leakage? Is it suitable for a fairly quiet office?

The 1 notch white filter seems to remove some grain that I heard with the black felt and without any filter. Obviously these are very small differences but that's what I hear. Putting in all the filters at the same time is interesting too.

In terms of frequency response, I percieve Aeons as missing a bit at 2KHz. Otherwise it's about neutral. There's a bit of tonal tilt downwards from 2K or so to 200hz, so that may give the impression of being slightly bright depending on your perception. It responds very well to EQ so you can...

At a basic level, "perfect" decoding would be something like input digital number (sample) of 0.2 -> output 0.2 volts, followed by a new sample and a new voltage that happens in an infinitesimal amount of time. Of course, this is not possible in the real world. Yes. The answer is "may". You are...

A DAC is a digital to analog converter. An ideal DAC converts digital to analog perfectly. Coloration is deviation from the pursuit of this ideal form. Yes, they are supposed to be audibly transparent, as that is a much lower standard of "perfect to our ears" rather than "perfect to our highly...

They're very technically capable and have "huge" sounding bass. I personally love that about them. The downside is the tonal balance is simply wrong. You can compensate for this with PEQ, but I wouldn't consider this headphone good out of the box. They do need that EQ. Vocals are very negatively...

Aeons are a bit larger horizontally than the EL8s, and the plugs stick out more. The cups dont rotate so your head position is locked to above a certain angle when wearing them around your neck. Overall not bad though. They don't isolate quite as much either.

None of my amps can do even near 3 watts so I guess I'm safe running test signals at all volumes. Thanks!

What's the Max power spec of the aeon closed?

Saw some dude wearing MSR7s at the bus stop. I subordinated him with my LCD-2, which I was wearing at the time.

They're sort of mediocre. One time I accidentally pulled the spring strain relief instead of the plug head when unplugging my headphones and the spring just popped out. No way to force it back in either. That being said, it does the job. Also it tends to kink up quite a bit.

Is it bad to drive the valhalla to audible distortion with low sensitivity planars?

Yes, that's correct.

Thats unfortunate, I maxed out the TH-X00. Guess it's Aeon for me then.