Heldaeus
100+ Head-Fier
Basic inital thoughts:
- Wider and better segragation of individual sounds.
- Notes feel like they have more space around them (don't mistake this for fast and airy, it's not that).
- Less tonal density
- Better sub-bass lift and transients than the velour pads
- Still a bit on the warm side
- Better treble and upper mids (the 1.3 kHz and 3.9 kHz areas are handled the same as with the velour but the 5.5 kHz dip is lifted to nearly sounding linear. The wobbliness around 6-9 kHz is handled better as well. << These observations are consistent with my earlier ones regarding these pads)
- The leathers seem to lower the listening volume by 2-3 dB.
- Wider and better segragation of individual sounds.
- Notes feel like they have more space around them (don't mistake this for fast and airy, it's not that).
- Less tonal density
- Better sub-bass lift and transients than the velour pads
- Still a bit on the warm side
- Better treble and upper mids (the 1.3 kHz and 3.9 kHz areas are handled the same as with the velour but the 5.5 kHz dip is lifted to nearly sounding linear. The wobbliness around 6-9 kHz is handled better as well. << These observations are consistent with my earlier ones regarding these pads)
- The leathers seem to lower the listening volume by 2-3 dB.
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