Lunatique
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So are you keeping the LCD2. I like them and will be keeping mine. I also look forward to your comparison with the Stax. I heard the 02 and for me this LCD2 is much better IMO. I liked the Orpheus better than the 02 but not better than this planar. The bass is really special in these cans and tone is exceptional. Really enjoyed the last two weeks of listening.
You know, I actually agonized over this for a while. On one hand, it's a fine pair of cans, but on the other hand, that recess in the 2KHz~3KHz range is kind of a deal breaker since I'm very picky about frequency response neutrality. I mean, if I could breed the LCD-2 with the HD650 and get a hybrid, I'd be very happy, and I really thought that's what I'd get with the LCD-2 before I actually heard it.
The truth is, none of the headphones I own are ideal--they all have at least one major issue. I couldn't trust any of them to make critical audio production decision with, as they all need some EQ to sound more neutral. The HD650's sub-bass is not authoritative enough. The M50 has this metallic emphasis in the treble and its bass could be tighter, and the D7000 has more than one major issue so I'm selling it for sure. Out of all of them, I'd say the LCD-2 requires the least amount of EQ'ing--it s really just a simple 3dB boost with a wide bandwidth between 2KHz and 3KHz, and that's it. With the HD650, I'd have to do a pretty dramatic boost in the sub-bass region to give it the authoritative bass it needs. I don't even bother EQ'ing the M50 since it's issues are not so simple and would require too much tweaking to address. The D7000 is kind of like that too but less complicated since it's easier to pinpoint the exact problems it has (which require 3 EQ bands to address).
I'm holding on to all the others for now (including the LCD-2), until I find that magical pair of cans that does everything right to my ears. I know that even the Stax flagship rig has its own issues, but because it sounds so damn compelling that I don't even really mind them. I certainly don't think it's perfectly neutral or the most accurate, but it's the most musical and immersive headphones I've ever heard. Maybe one day I'll find that ideal pair, but for now, I'm still searching, and even after I add the Stax rig to my studio I'll still go on searching because I know the Stax isn't perfectly neutral.