And the C/S (Cheese-to-Signal ratio) is quite high here!:baby::trophy: ... btw "Käse" is German and means BS.

Ah, I understand, thanks for the clarification.

What bright and less bright editions are you talking about? What did I miss? Are there different versions with different tonalities on the market? (Serial numbers?) I have to admit that I didn't follow this thread for longer time until yesterday (so excuse my cluelessness). I have one of those...

Yeah, maybe you're right :wink:. I should not have got too much into details. Too much explanations :wink: :sunglasses::metal:. I just read into the thread today and was really confused on what was going on here. I am sure that Nomax is really an honest guy(!), this I wanted to express as some...

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Hello everyone, I can't understand all the hostility towards NOMAX either. OK, this is a typical and well known phenomenon of internet forums, where people are often not as polite to other people as they should be. These people would never dare to address others if they were face to face with...

Sorry, but this imho is nonsense and only your very personal view. Not mine at all. For me, the X9k is the most "musical" of all headphones that I own*, besides the Bravura (*these are several TOTL dynamic headphones, and on the E-stat side the Warwick Model One, the Bravura and six different...

I agree that normally (if limited power is taken out of the equation) it is not possible by pure amp selection to turn a headphone into one with a very different character. The difference between transducers is very dominant (imho). And I can only repeat (also repeat) again that I interpret all...

No, I would not say that HE-1 and Aperio are including an EQ. For Bravura, that could be the case because there is no means to circumvent the internal DAC with its Sonoma-DSP. But the Aperio can also be fed by an analog input signal, hence the user may deploy his own independent external DAC (by...

And all three guys, i.e., 'Golden Sound', 'DMS', and 'Resolve' ranked 'Sennheiser HE-1' and 'Warwick Aperio' being the absolute Top (mostly "S+"). And all three guys ranked 'Susvara' and 'Bravura' as "S". And interestingly all three ranked 'Shangri La Sr' as "A", only, even when matched with...

Hi gammi, this is indeed interesting to read: "That <40Hz drop-off? You can actually get it back counterintuitively by breaking the seal. If you lift the bottom of the X9000 off your head ever so slightly you'll hear a bass lift." Exactly the same was mentioned by Michael in the comments...

Btw, here I just found two former reviews of Michael on Susvara with Bakoon: and

We now got an answer on the amplifier setups being compared for Michael's YT review of 'Director's Garage': X9000 chain: dCS LINA DAC => Mjolnir KGSSHV Carbon CC => Stax SR-X9000 Susvara chain: dCS LINA DAC => Bakoon 13r => Hifiman Susvara To quote from the comments section of Michael’s...

Another brand new review (this has been released today) by Director's Garage (Stax x9000/Mjolnir Carbon CC/dCS LINA DAC).

Indeed very true! I love them all ... Most Stax headphones are real individuals and do not resemble the others of the Stax family. None is perfect, but all are very special (and at a more or less high quality level) and complement each other. And this variety makes it so much fun to swap between...