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Audeze LCD-2C Classic - Impressions Thread
Apr 19, 2018 at 10:46 AM Post #2,702 of 7,334
DrSeven said:
Btw joeexp i hope my reply didn't sound like I wouldn't trust your judgement! If so I apologise because I value your opinion (and chef8489's) a lot!
Been a member here for 5 years I think and always loved how much the community helps each other and is always friendly.
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I could quite happily live with either of them. However my original LCD2s had quite a few driver failures and had to be replaced a couple of times.
No problems with the LCD-2C as yet ...

Price:
LCD-2 -- $995
LCD-2C -- $799 (was $599)
Aeon Flow --$799.99
 
Apr 19, 2018 at 10:49 AM Post #2,703 of 7,334
My LCD2C sound very nice with well recorded music but can be quite harsh with lots of glare in the upper mids and lower treble on poor recordings especially during creshendos of female vocals. I am using them with my fairly new Sony Wm1a on the balanced output with moderately priced solid silver cable sourced from ebay. This doesn't sound like the sound signature described by other people here, certainly not dark. Anyone have an idea where the problem is in my system?
 
Apr 19, 2018 at 10:59 AM Post #2,704 of 7,334
cpetrillo said:
My LCD2C sound very nice with well recorded music but can be quite harsh with lots of glare in the upper mids and lower treble on poor recordings especially during creshendos of female vocals. I am using them with my fairly new Sony Wm1a on the balanced output with moderately priced solid silver cable sourced from ebay. This doesn't sound like the sound signature described by other people here, certainly not dark. Anyone have an idea where the problem is in my system?
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Tried my LCD2C with WM1A single ended, volume at 110-120. Audible enough but always feels like something's missing. No harshness or glare but lacking in everything.

By the way is your cable pure silver? A sub quality silver cables can be quite harsh and a lot of glare like you mentioned. However my Effect Thor Silver II is nowhere harsh or glaring. Might be the silver in your cables causing those harshness and glare?

Wanted to get a balanced cable but not sure to terminate with a 4.4mm or to choose xlr as I have a Massdrop Sdac + Cavalli Carbon coming in May. Dilemma.
 
Apr 19, 2018 at 11:02 AM Post #2,705 of 7,334
joeexp said:
I could quite happily live with either of them. However my original LCD2s had quite a few driver failures and had to be replaced a couple of times.
No problems with the LCD-2C as yet ...

Price:
LCD-2 -- $995
LCD-2C -- $799 (was $599)
Aeon Flow --$799.99
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Thanks for the input! Sounds like the lcd-2c is a safe bet. Here for me its like this:

LCD-2: 1200€
LCD-2C: 800€
Aeon Flow: 900-1000€ (really hard to find though)
 
Apr 19, 2018 at 11:04 AM Post #2,706 of 7,334
endlesswaves said:
Tried my LCD2C with WM1A single ended, volume at 110-120. Audible enough but always feels like something's missing. No harshness or glare but lacking in everything.

By the way is your cable pure silver? A sub quality silver cables can be quite harsh and a lot of glare like you mentioned. However my Effect Thor Silver II is nowhere harsh or glaring. Might be the silver in your cables causing those harshness and glare?

Wanted to get a balanced cable but not sure to terminate with a 4.4mm or to choose xlr as I have a Massdrop Sdac + Cavalli Carbon coming in May. Dilemma.
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Using mine balanced on high gain about 75 to 80 volume. Cable is by Dyson and wasn't super cheap but I suppose that could be the problem.
 
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Going to do a little comparison (also with the HD700) over the next week.
 
Apr 23, 2018 at 12:15 AM Post #2,710 of 7,334
Just add other member impression, LCD2C working amazingly with Chord Mojo.
Mojo able to drive this 70 Ohm planar nicely, very engaging; deep and well defined bass, good sound imaging.
I tested side by side with LCD2, the LCD2C slightly has deeper bass but LCD2 better in Hi territories
But it just 3 days old LCD2C, let's see after 100 hours.

For me, Mojo do better than R2R for LCD2C

~ron~
 
Apr 23, 2018 at 10:11 AM Post #2,712 of 7,334
jazzwave said:
Just add other member impression, LCD2C working amazingly with Chord Mojo.
Mojo able to drive this 70 Ohm planar nicely, very engaging; deep and well defined bass, good sound imaging.
I tested side by side with LCD2, the LCD2C slightly has deeper bass but LCD2 better in Hi territories
But it just 3 days old LCD2C, let's see after 100 hours.

For me, Mojo do better than R2R for LCD2C

~ron~
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Which one? And why better?
 
Apr 23, 2018 at 10:53 AM Post #2,713 of 7,334
I use Audio Gd R2R-11 and Mojo DAC/Amp via Coax to DAP

Mojo better than R2R-11 with LCD2 Classic, good sound imaging, more clean and musical...but that my opinion
 
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