Had a chance to try a brand new LCD-4 just unboxed and driven from a chord Mojo. Honestly the Mojo volume balls needed to be nearly on white (top end of volume spectrum) for it to be sufficiently loud for me. I instantly heard and felt the buzzing from songs, it was not merely physical but affected the sound of the song, very disturbing.
A product manager then told me to compare it to the Final Audio Sonorous X, which is even more expensive than the LCD-4, and had an insanely thick, lush, alluring mid-range. So superior that it was hard to go back to the LCD-4 in direct comparison. I only auditioned the 4 very briefly, it was competent in everything but no singular area jumped out as being particularly outstanding, maybe the Mojo is simply not bringing out its true potential. I also had a 30 seconds listen from a Hugo TT but it was with an unfamiliar song, it did sound better though I guess. We changed the stock blue SE cable to an ALO Reference 16 cable and it managed to bring vocals a bit closer like what I experienced from my audition of the X some time before.
The ebony was beautiful and much more attractive than all the previous wood used on the 2 and 3. I also liked the chrome grill as it made it look more high-end. Price was staggering and seems it is very back ordered so won't be getting it anytime soon.
