omniweltall
Headphoneus Supremus
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You know your Audezes very well, mate.Audeze phones sound very different and small updates happen a lot.
2010-2011 - Very dark, lush, syrupy sound with great bass body and extension. The sound is wonderfully addictive.
2012-2013 - More treble energy, slightly leaner, not as lush and addictive but the trade off is a headphone with a lighter more quicker sound.
2014 - worst Audeze I've heard, bass roll off and weird timbre.
Late 2015 -2016 - I had three units one metal one and 2 Shedua woods. The two Sheduas had different sounds but both had a weird compressed sound, cloudy and vocals sounded really thin and lifeless. Bass was limp but had good extension. The treble on the first Shedua wood had a weird peak while the other was fairly smooth in the treble. The Allu LCD-2F 2016 sounded like the Shedua without the treble peak.
2019 bamboo - similar to the Shedua(without peak) the mids are weird vocals lack body the timbre is very plastic, similar to the original K701. The bass is more similar to the LCD-2C.
LCD-2 Classic - to me sounds different to any other of the LCD-2s it isn't lush and romantic and is a more grainy unrefined Audeze but it's very dynamic, quick sounding with great bass impact. It has slightly more body than the fazor variant but is less refined in some areas.
I wish Audeze would go back to the 2010-2011 type of sound personally and called the LCD-2C the LCD-X2 or something like that because it sounds better than any X variant I've heard and pit on the work to bring back that true classic sound.