[Badas]

Has there been many LCD-X driver failures?
The LCD-3 has had a lot of problems.
I've used mine with heavy use for two years now. Sometimes with mistake insane volume levels. Bordering on blowing up the drivers. All this with no issues at all. LCD-X seems really robust.

 

[HiFiChris]

Has there been many LCD-X driver failures?
The LCD-3 has had a lot of problems.
I've used mine with heavy use for two years now. Sometimes with mistake insane volume levels. Bordering on blowing up the drivers. All this with no issues at all. LCD-X seems really robust.

 
I've only heard of one case in Germany so far.
 
Fortunately not mine though. 

 

 

[Frosty3258]

sounds to me like a driver issue assuming all connectors are snug. it could also be a bad cap in the amp that is under more stress due to the LCD-X impedance vs the hd598.

Okay, thank you for the information. I still have my odac tucked away so I could pull that out and see what happens.

 

[McClelland]

 

Thanks for the heads up about the Lyr thread.  Lots of good info there that I'll check out.

 

[McClelland]

Has there been many LCD-X driver failures?
The LCD-3 has had a lot of problems.
I've used mine with heavy use for two years now. Sometimes with mistake insane volume levels. Bordering on blowing up the drivers. All this with no issues at all. LCD-X seems really robust.

Have had experience with three extremely loud volume blast through the used LCD-Xs I have been using as my main desktop HPs.  I was really concerned that the HPs might have been damaged, but no evidence of this on steady listening for two months since the bursts.

 

[Badas]

  Have had experience with three extremely loud volume blast through the used LCD-Xs I have been using as my main desktop HPs.  I was really concerned that the HPs might have been damaged, but no evidence of this on steady listening for two months since the bursts.

Yeah. I put a massive 30watts through mine using a HP speaker tap. The LCD-X was as loud as a speaker from 2 meters away. It was only 10-20 seconds but it was really loud. No damage at all.

 

[groovyd]

Still the X is the best headphone Audeze ever made, considering all things (price, performance, reliability, looks)...

 

[Badas]

  Still the X is the best headphone Audeze ever made, considering all things (price, performance, reliability, looks)...

I can't fault the X. Sounds good on everything. Very musical.

 

[TimeLord]

 
Yeah. I put a massive 30watts through mine using a HP speaker tap. The LCD-X was as loud as a speaker from 2 meters away. It was only 10-20 seconds but it was really loud. No damage at all.

Audeze rates the LCD-X for a maximum input of 15 Watts for 200 mS which is far and away more than any other headphone I own. The closest competitor is the HifiMan 400i at 6 Watts.
 
If you managed to push 30 Watts into it for that long, that's crazy impressive. I will not try to replicate that...

 

[Badas]

 
Audeze rates the LCD-X for a maximum input of 15 Watts for 200 mS which is far and away more than any other headphone I own. The closest competitor is the HifiMan 400i at 6 Watts.
 
If you managed to push 30 Watts into it for that long, that's crazy impressive. I will not try to replicate that...

Agreed. We were playing with a speaker tap on low volume and accidentally put it through at very loud volume.
I was very impressed it didn't blow up.
Since then we have put the speaker tap away. Not really something that should be played with.

 

[mwhals]

How does the LCD-X sound on a QP1R? Also, how forgiving is it on older music converted to FLAC that is not mastered as well?

 

[Frosty3258]

I don't know about the amp but they are pretty forgiving.

 

[eightthree]

As i received a graph from Audeze for my 2016 revision model i realised it's much different than the graph i had for my previous models. The biggest difference was in higher frequencies. Also there was no significant roll off in the lowest frequencies. So i jumped to LCD-4 thread and i downloaded graph and merged them together. What i realised is that they are quite similar - despite the dBSPL difference due the impedance (i think) also i know the graphs are smoothed out but still i was quite surprised with that similarities. Red: LCD-4; Black: LCD-X
 

 

[TimeLord]

  As i received a graph from Audeze for my 2016 revision model i realised it's much different than the graph i had for my previous models. The biggest difference was in higher frequencies. Also there was no significant roll off in the lowest frequencies. So i jumped to LCD-4 thread and i downloaded graph and merged them together. What i realised is that they are quite similar - despite the dBSPL difference due the impedance (i think) also i know the graphs are smoothed out but still i was quite surprised with that similarities. Red: LCD-4; Black: LCD-X
 
 

 
The similarity is quite striking. Now I wonder if the sound is that similar. I need to audition the LCD-4 again.

 

[johnzz4]

As i received a graph from Audeze for my 2016 revision model i realised it's much different than the graph i had for my previous models. The biggest difference was in higher frequencies. Also there was no significant roll off in the lowest frequencies. So i jumped to LCD-4 thread and i downloaded graph and merged them together. What i realised is that they are quite similar - despite the dBSPL difference due the impedance (i think) also i know the graphs are smoothed out but still i was quite surprised with that similarities. Red: LCD-4; Black: LCD-X

Weigh it.. Maybe you got LCD4 drivers.