Thanks Baycode. Yeah... I wrote a follow post about how these are on par with several other great headphones... but they do seem to be pulling ahead of the Sennheisers in a way that's hard to ignore anymore. The sound staging on the X2s is easily the most impressive I've ever heard. They are...

Cool Stochastic! A closed back and now an open back! That's how great collections begin. Again I do think the Nad 50 are fantastic, but the X2 are as well, and yes, it makes total sense to try out the differences between closed back design and open back first hand. Again, the open back will only...

I use both a Corda Head Five and a Little Dot Mark II+. I tend to prefer the Little Dot set for high impedence with the Senns and the Corda with the Dennons (helps tighten them a bit). I will sometimes run from a computer going from a Yamaha outboard DAC (an I88x which is part of a DAW interface...

Hi,   I think the NAD 50s are incredible. I think both these headphones are incredible, but they are very different animals. The NAD 50 is a much more versatile headphone because it has a closed back, and is more portable. (The earcups pivot flat, and it weighs less).   Rather than saying...

From my experience, one of the great things about Head-fi is the ability to search by headphone, and cross reference across threads. For this reason I thought I'd return to this inactive thread with an update about the Phonon's. With the passage of time I don't find I reach for these very much...

Excellent review Baycode! I just received my X2s this week from Amazon in the US. I listened to them once or twice after unboxing at work and thought they were pleasant enough. They didn't quite knock my socks off though, and I began lamenting that I'd made it to the precipice of "diminishing...

Greetings,   Let me begin by acknowledging outright this is my first post. As a long time reader on headfi I appreciate this is cause for skepticism, especially since I'm posting in praise of the Phonons. The reason I write this is because I've been a longtime *reader* on head-fi. The...