The new headband for me is affecting the sound , better with original headband , sound more focus and focal more intimate. Cons, pressure make the listening only last 1 hour .
I can press the cups in and don't notice any difference unless it's really hard and the driver is closer to the ear as expected this would change. Just curious, did you a/b the difference with two separate headphones with each different headband, or are you just going off memory after the time to install it?
Why would you have pressure on your ears? Are your ears too big to fit in the cups? Or did you mean on your head? A lot of people found the original headband uncomfortable, but you have the most extreme reaction I've read. If you get a chance to try, the new headband improves it a lot.
I am a big-headed person. I find the LCD-5s excruciating to wear. Audeze was kind enough to send me a the prototype wider headband. Still excruciating. I don't feel the headband helped much at all for a cranially endowed person like myself. I also felt that the earcups were too small.
I am a big-headed person. I find the LCD-5s excruciating to wear. Audeze was kind enough to send me a the prototype wider headband. Still excruciating. I don't feel the headband helped much at all for a cranially endowed person like myself. I also felt that the earcups were too small.
Audeze also supplies longer rods, not sure if that would help. The earcups are pretty small for over ear headphones, so it may be a lost cause regardless :/
Audeze also supplies longer rods, not sure if that would help. The earcups are pretty small for over ear headphones, so it may be a lost cause regardless :/
I had the longer rods. I already sold them, so it's academic. But I agree with the commenter above -- I am perplexed why they didn't do more testing on actual people's heads to test comfort, especially as comfort had always been a complaint about previous LCD iterations. I thought the LCD-5s sounded great and would have loved to have kept them, but the extreme lack of comfort were a deal killer for me.
We can't account for every single person's head in the world. I am a 6'2" person myself with a huge head, and I agree that even the new headband can still be clampy, but after a few days I adjusted, and no longer have any issues with it.
That's just what's gonna happen with headphones. Some are gonna be clampy, some won't be. It's impossible to make everyone happy.
I guess I am thankful for having a rather average head shape/size. I am not suffering from any of the challenges it seems are playing others. While I have only spent a short time with the LCD-5's I couldn't be happier.
Do they have faults? Sure, name a headphone that doesn't. They check a lot of boxes and I feel that the sentiment they are an all-rounder is true for me.
Can't wait to see how they grow as I listen more. Finding with all of these TOTL headphones it takes time to properly evaluate them. In many ways, you have to learn how to appreciate them as each one is very different than the other. You become accustomed to these traits and it can be sometimes jarring when they are no longer present, or when a new set of headphones paints a very different audio picture.
We can't account for every single person's head in the world. I am a 6'2" person myself with a huge head, and I agree that even the new headband can still be clampy, but after a few days I adjusted, and no longer have any issues with it.
That's just what's gonna happen with headphones. Some are gonna be clampy, some won't be. It's impossible to make everyone happy.
Fair enough, but I have had no trouble with Susvara, Utopia, Meze Elite, or even LCD-4. Nor am I the only person to complain about the clamping force and small ear cups.
Well my replacement headband is on the way so I'll measure the frequency response with both the old and new headbands, see if any measured difference is valid in practice as well, and report back here when done.
Fair enough, but I have had no trouble with Susvara, Utopia, Meze Elite, or even LCD-4. Nor am I the only person to complain about the clamping force and small ear cups.
I just received and put on the less clampy LCD-5 headphone from Audeze.
At first, I didn't really notice that much of a difference, as I had become somewhat used to the previous headband. I don't know if it's necessary to break in the headband, or it's really the pads that break in - because they broke in already.
Anyhow, what I noticed which for sure told me it was less clampy was that the weight was spread about 50% with the clamp and 50% on the top of the head as opposed to 100% with the clamp on the previous headband. I didn't feel any weight from the top at all with the previous headband as the pressure was all in the clamp.
I think that in the long run this will be more comfortable. I did notice, too, that where I felt comfortable on the rods was slightly different. Previously it was 4th from the last notch on each cup, now it's 3rd notch, or 3rd notch on one side and 2nd notch on the other. I figured, as others had noted, that the placement on the rods would be exactly the same. Maybe I just found this more comfortable with the slightly different weight distribution.
Lastly, Audeze sends a tiny allen wrench as well. I'm sure this was mentioned before, but you can tighten or loosen how much the headband grabs the yolks. You have to get it just right so that they are adjustable, meaning too loose and they won't stay in place, and too tight, they are locked into a certain position (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). All in all no big deal. I didn't read about this before and haven't adjusted the headbands on other Audeze phones so it may be the same thing. As there wasn't any instruction (it is rather easy), I just thought I'd post in case it helps someone.
Fair enough, but I have had no trouble with Susvara, Utopia, Meze Elite, or even LCD-4. Nor am I the only person to complain about the clamping force and small ear cups.
Such a shame with the LCD-5. As noticed, and mentioned elsewhere, the angle to which the cable hangs off also means it's now touching the shoulders/chest. Would be nice if the successor could improve on this - larger ear cups, maybe even magnesium chassis like the 4z/MX4/GX/24, perhaps headband of the CRBN (I prefer the older style carbon fiber headbands), cable connectors moved forward a little.
After the clamping issue(now fixed and not a huge problem for me in the first place) I agree that the placement of the connectors is the only other issue I have ergonomically with the LCD-5. I would have preferred the positioning that the LCD-4 had.
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