Thanks for the early impressions.
Guys, these are supposed to be primarily, or at least also, for gaming. I would therefore hope there isn't too much bass boost.
How are the imaging, sound stage?
Do note, these at the very base are still part of the LCD line. They still maintain a very similar general base sound to what Audeze has around. It's not made from the base up for pure gaming like the Mobius (which I have next to the GX)
The GX is actually not that bass heavy. Pretty middle ground actually. I used to use Q701 for gaming so the GX is a step up in having some bass at least but its not on the thick side. It's there in proportions.
Imaging and Sound stage are definitely above grade compared to most gaming dedicated headsets on the market but its not an Ananda or HD800. For a while I was using the Hifiman Ananda for gaming. It got fatiguing after a while and some of the sharper tones, assault rifle fire, and grenade blasts got annoying after a while.
The GX isn't really tuned to really make anything completely stand out from what I could find. It's actually done tenderly. Gaming companies typically like to boost certain things which does make elements like footsteps or explosions more GAMMMEEERRYYY but takes away from general performance. Audeze took a middle ground with the GX.
It sounds great with music, and does 'well' with competetive FPS games. It wasn't the sharpest at gunshots or footsteps, it didn't have the most mind shattering bass, and it wasn't the highest in imaging. Rather, it was a nice packaged all in one piece that takes that middle ground approach.
Some headphones accentuate and artifically tune to do some things better but I find those don't have good overal packages. More often than not, they come out like this
(headsets like that are like....yep the bass is making my ear drums vibrate...and yes those gun shots are very sharp...but wow does it sound like crap)
(Red Devil 5700XT is on order)
Oh, Audeze recommends the EVGA Nu sound card by the way. Mostly for the mic. It has the proper bias voltage and clean line-input for the microphone and I can confirm. It's very clean.
The headphone output on the Nu is just ok. It's a very generalist amp and tries to target too much. For one, its output power is enormously large (10% volume is enough to drive the GX to decently high levels). The GX comes with a splitter so you could plug one end into the Nu's mic input and the other end into your DAC/Amp of choice.