Elex = Elear + Clear pads, I think. The Clear itself may have tighter tolerance for L/R driver matching, which is very important for soundstage, but I don’t know for sure the exact difference between Elex and Clear… certainly the Elex was a bargain.
Elex = Elear + Clear pads, I think. The Clear itself may have tighter tolerance for L/R driver matching, which is very important for soundstage, but I don’t know for sure the exact difference between Elex and Clear… certainly the Elex was a bargain.
I have seen that trope marched out many times, but I don't believe it. If just changing the pads worked magic, I would have eventually liked my Elegia's. I went through many pads, including the Stellia pads from Dekoni and nothing worked.
I wonder if anyone actually did that comparo head to head?
I LOVED my Elex's for years and the Clear's were just too expensive at that point. I then bought the Clear's about a year and a half ago from Headphones.com. I could not find a noticeable difference between them. Although it is nice to have three years of warranty and the ability to get after warranty service.
I Love the sound of open back Focal's. And those Elex's are, IMO, the best deal in headphones at $499.00.
I have seen that trope marched out many times, but I don't believe it. If just changing the pads worked magic, I would have eventually liked my Elegia's. I went through many pads, including the Stellia pads from Dekoni and nothing worked.
I wonder if anyone actually did that comparo head to head?
I LOVED my Elex's for years and the Clear's were just too expensive at that point. I then bought the Clear's about a year and a half ago from Headphones.com. I could not find a noticeable difference between them. Although it is nice to have three years of warranty and the ability to get after warranty service.
I Love the sound of open back Focal's. And those Elex's are, IMO, the best deal in headphones at $499.00.
I gather the Elegia is the least liked of the Focal closed-backs and supposed to be strangely tuned. I gather the new Azurys is better tuned and more spacious than the typical focal closed back sound. Will see if they are decently spacious for a closed back when I get them, my closed Beyers are both very spacious so good headphones to test against for that aspect. Open focals in general are great, I’ve heard a couple (Elear and Utopia OG) and thought they were great and I’m sure they’ve only improved since. Comfort of the old style focals wasn’t ideal for me though.
I have seen that trope marched out many times, but I don't believe it. If just changing the pads worked magic, I would have eventually liked my Elegia's. I went through many pads, including the Stellia pads from Dekoni and nothing worked.
I wonder if anyone actually did that comparo head to head?
I LOVED my Elex's for years and the Clear's were just too expensive at that point. I then bought the Clear's about a year and a half ago from Headphones.com. I could not find a noticeable difference between them. Although it is nice to have three years of warranty and the ability to get after warranty service.
I Love the sound of open back Focal's. And those Elex's are, IMO, the best deal in headphones at $499.00.
I did decide to pre-order the OAE1, very curious about the sound of the headphone. Since it’s a limited run headphone I thought would be smart to pre-order now.
I did decide to pre-order the OAE1, very curious about the sound of the headphone. Since it’s a limited run headphone I thought would be smart to pre-order now.
Yeah but it also gives me time to debate whether I want to keep the pre-order or not; not supposed to ship till late June so have plenty of time to think about it.
I have seen that trope marched out many times, but I don't believe it. If just changing the pads worked magic, I would have eventually liked my Elegia's. I went through many pads, including the Stellia pads from Dekoni and nothing worked.
The point isn't that any headphone can be great/to an individual's taste with the right pads, but that certain headphones have the potential to be great but were held back by the pad choice.
But in the case of the Elex ... that headphone is literally an Elear with different pads and minor cosmetic differences.
There are many other cases of manufacturers changing pads with a noticeable improvement in the eyes of the community: Sundara 2020, the 2020 revisions of the Audeze LCD-X and LCD-XC.
Is they gonna be available in Europe, also are these really a budget combination of HD600+800s? The lovely sound of HD600 with the sub-bass extension and with big soundstage such as HD800s?
My comment was not meant to you and I don’t want to derail this thread but the Elex has a different damping scheme and tuning compared to the Elear and it was confirmed by one Massdrop staff’s comment. Besides my friend added Clear pads to his Elear but the mids suckout was still there. My old Elex had no suck-out mids at all
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