What causes different headphones to have different "clarity" or "transparency" or whatever term is used? Is it just distortion? Maybe something in the frequency response which allows different perceptions of clarity (in my experience clarity does seem correlated with brightness)?
For example, the STAX 009S and L500 seemed to have ultimate clarity even over the STAX Omega. Those are electrostats, but like the FOCAL Utopia and SONY SA5000/SA3000 also had great clarity on par with STAX.
For example, the STAX 009S and L500 seemed to have ultimate clarity even over the STAX Omega. Those are electrostats, but like the FOCAL Utopia and SONY SA5000/SA3000 also had great clarity on par with STAX.