Yeah, my listening notes were a massive wall of jumbled thoughts, I’m going to try to cut to the chase. But I’ve been staying up late recently, and frankly after I made dinner I had to fall asleep. That happened tonight too, woke up now but I’ve got a headache. I’ll post a notification in this thread when I add comparisons and impressions to the spoiler tags on Head-Fi, and I’ll add them as comments on Drop once the duplicate posts and things get fixed from Drop converting my discussion comment into a review@Evshrug The links within the review aren't working for me. I can't see the section with comparisons, for example (or I can see the post but it's empty). Just placeholders for now?
Thanks for the detailed review!
A reminder, here’s some early stream-of-conscious impressions that I’d posted in this thread: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/axel-grell-headphone.967413/post-18088983
Well, in the headphones.com wrap video for CanJam NYC, DMS said he heard too much peak at 6k. But he might say something different now. The valley may even be the change made in response to CanJam SoCal feedback It can sometimes take time to understand what you’re hearing, but with understanding comes familiarity – by the time you’re used to what you’re hearing, brain burn-in is also well on its way.Yeah, the cliff is bewildering to me. I'm not graph crazy but I've seen quite a few and I struggle to think of anything with that kind of drop off in the upper treble. Like a sudden cliff past 10k is totally normal. But to have such a valley between 6-10k seems bizarre.
I agree with @Rob80b , when you’re hearing a bunch of instruments and frequencies all playing at once your brain has to sort them out, and some frequencies mask others. I experienced brain burn-in where I got used to this one fairly quickly.
@Cocosan I hope you’ll enjoy it, I’m fairly confident someone who likes those headphones will find lots to like/love here too.
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