PS .I'm nobody to say buy a Headphone for thousands and after that...use an EQ
I will not follow this trend...not yet...and not in the future
(few deweloper are laughing about that in this price category...and i know many )
Yes that's the downside of the LCD-5.
But for me it's important that it works portable. So I choosen LCD-5. Stationary there are better headphones CRBN and Susvara.
I have been using the Stealth paired with a Mojo 2 and I get good volume, but I tend to listen at low volumes so it might not be sufficient for others.
Mojo 2 is able to make them sound great and you can EQ the sound, but somehow I always return to flat.
But in my opinion Mojo 2 is good for portability with the Stealth.
Mojo 2 (as well as Mojo) and H2 all measure ruler flat. The warmth is a perception based on the tap lengths and filters and , in OG Mojo’s case, the one capacitor on the signal path. But whatever the reason, the Mojos do have a warmer/fuller tonality.
Are you using Loki or alternative EQ. Should be a complimentary addition with Rognir. As much I dislike the Stealth, I appreciate what it can do very well.
Are you using Loki or alternative EQ. Should be a complimentary addition with Rognir. As much I dislike the Stealth, I appreciate what it can do very well.
I’m thinking of the Rognir and/or Stealth, but I’m hesitant on both. Rognir might be hard to get given the current global situation, and the Stealth might be boring, but I’m still tempted
Yes that's the downside of the LCD-5.
But for me it's important that it works portable. So I choosen LCD-5. Stationary there are better headphones CRBN and Susvara.
Susvara has not really low end (reserved) and the CRBN to less in the highs to my ears but for an Estat it makes a good job
NOMAX
Ps.and the Lcd5 only mids....i describe the tonality of this model as very shouty
A tonality should offer one enough in the low end...enough mids....enough highs....without EQ
And the Stealth offers me enough....compare it side by side...because the acoustic memory of our ears is short lived
My personal feeling is DCA's closed back is better than their open back. My first dca purchase was drop ether cx. Then i bought aeon open, ether 2 and stealth later on. The open ones are not good for my taste. They sound dark, sterile and clean and lack of sparkling to me in general. The closed back actually has similar trail (aka bouse sound; unlike ATH cans which all sound very different!) but just much better balance and still has some fun when listening to I think the stealth is significantly better than the ether 2 and cx in sound quality. But given the cost difference, I'm not sure the jump in sound quality commensurates with the hike in cost.
One thing I noticed is that the Stealth sounds very different from my memory of the AEON, which was more muffled. The Stealth is completely unlike that.
I still find it interesting how there are these two polarized camps on this headphone. Almost like we have something in our ears that lets us hear the Stealth's capabilities way more than others who seem to find very little appealing about them.
I think it comes down to how we perceive treble being different, sometimes radically so. Also how much clamping force is exerted, affecting the bass. Likewise, if you're used to a very bass-strong headphone, you will initially find the Stealth to be thin-sounding.
My good ol' non-audiophile friend came around and I videoed his impressions over 2 hours of listening and chatting, and it was apparent how much better the M17 was than the N8ii with the Stealth. Of course, we mustn't forget that this was in DC mode, so it wasn't really a comparison of DAPs in the purest sense. More so though is how the Stealth reveals everything about upstream components, so you're really hearing them, and less so the headphones than usual.
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I've used it to EQ my VC, Rognir and now the Stealth.
without EQ
