Guys,
Darku gave me the chance to listen to
Bursons' Conductor .
I can tell you that i went there with the idea that it will be a positive difference from my
Burson HA-160DS but not huge.
As you have seen in my first post I loved my
LCD2s' sound. The fun fact is that it seems I did not get the best of them, not by far .
When i started listening the conductor to the music I know i was shocked... :eek: . It was almost like I was listening to the
lcd2 for the first time. I always felt that these cans can do more. On conductor i knew they gave their best!
You know that most of the time you listen to a better equipment and say...yes..it is better...but not so big as to pay over 2x the difference. This was not the case. The difference was more than obvious, it was like an elephant in the room. It was a "
Shut up and take my money" moment :
[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQCP85FngzE[/VIDEO]
It was almost the same feeling I had when running my
hd650 on an amp could not drive them properly, before i listened to conductor with
LCD2.
I am not sure which of the amplifier or dac section of Conductor made this huge difference, but I know that the amplifier gives 4W per channel and my
DS only gives 1 or even less.
In my lcd2 manual they say it would be best to use an amplifier with at least 1w/channel. So i was under their recommendations.
The bass had bigger punch, a lot more controlled (as Darku said: It is like an iron hand is controlling it), the sound was much more relaxed, the separation of instruments excellent, MUCH more details, a much wider soundstage. The sound was flowing with such ease.
The interesting thing is that I listened to HD800 as well on Conductor and I liked it a lot! Much more than on
160-ds. It gave it musicality. I started liking listening to rock on HD800. It was no longer bright. It gave it a bigger bass impact.
It made HD800 much more fun than i knew it to be on
HA-160D and
HA-160DS .