Àedhàn Cassiel
100+ Head-Fier
There seems to be confusion on what a fazor does and what it doesn't do. So here is some more explanation on Fazors and how they work. Fazors mainly work in high Frequencies management and don’t have anything to do with the bass extension. The Bass extension on these headphones are pretty much the same if they are Fazored or Non-Fazored.
Fazors do four things
a. They remove the diffraction around the magnets when sound goes through them. Diffraction effects are related to wavelength and the size of the obstacle. Low frequencies are not affected by this at all.
b. Sound Stage & Imaging - There are two things related to this - How big the sound stage is and how accurate it is. We do a lot of tests and recordings ourselves to determine where instruments are placed and how accurate the sound stage and imaging are.
The fazors make the audio wavefronts more coherent. This in turn makes the sound stage more accurate.
c. Efficiency. The fazors increase acoustic impedance in the space between the ear and the driver. This gets us a bit more efficiency.
d. Phase coherency. This is why we named it fazor.
The original LCD2 had a slighlty darker sound which many people loved. The LCD2C without fazor is pretty much similar design.
I don’t mean this to sound critical in any way. I’m genuinely curious… I’m new to this stuff, but I’ve heard several upper-mid-fi and hi-fi headphones now and for my personal tastes the LCD2’s I’ve heard without the fazor blow away anything else I’ve heard so far besides the HD800’s (which are made for something entirely different). If the LCD2’s with fazor were just LCD2’s with all the improvements that come with the fazor listed here, and there were no other downsides to the fazor at all, then why would Audeze be selling the LCD2C without fazor at all? Why not just tweak the sound signature on the current models?