Well, the E50 and E70 share the same philosophy I think and sound signature – dry (neutral?) mids, slightly prominent bass (more sub bass on the E70) with more weight and body, slightly smoothed / rolled off treble if you want. The E70 sound wider and fuller than the E50 but the single driver BA remains a very good performer in comparison and I like it.
But my favorite is LS200. LS is more linear from lows to highs with a slight accent on a mid range – so mids sound more organic, full and musical than on the E Series. Still very detailed and resolving sound.
The key thing here that you can listen to them for a long period of time and never get tired.
The opposite situation with the E70 which for sure technically great but do not match perfectly with my current sources: my DAC/Amp Vantam CML is not able to drive them properly due to its 80 mW per channel I guess, my DAP with 150 mW (balanced) is capable to drive but I get very aggressive sound in the area of upper mids/lower treble (kind of a harsh sounding). So I would avoid pairing the E70 with Saber DACs. It could be wrong ear tips either.
When you listen to LS you hear guitars on the first place, switching to E and especially to E70 your attention goes to bass and drum section.
The E50 and LS200 are both easy to drive and not that source dependent like the E70.
The LS200 perfectly match with Vantam on PCM1795 and sound very well with Pioneer XDP-300R (2 x ES9018K2M).
Vantam extracts even more details out of LS, tightens the bass, and gives more air in treble area in comparision.
P.S. All comparisons were made in Balanced mode. So I have no idea on how do they sound out of 3.5 mm single end.
P.P.S. LS200 is not for bass-heads. Actually E are not either..
If you need solid prominent bass - skip the LS200. E Series will suit here better.
Idealy to have both )
There are LS300, LS400 for sure.)
Looking at graphs, LS300 look too bass heavy (will definitely skip them). Still ineteresting to hear the flagship, LS400.
