jant71
Headphoneus Supremus
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In Honor of the late and great Neil Peart, who was one of my first inspirations as a drummer, i've been listening to Rush today on the N6/Pro and the T1X. The NUARLs are exquisite. The T1X just seems too shrill even on bass EQ.
I've burnt both the NUARLs in for roughly 10-16 hours using pink/brown noise, so freq. sweeps and a playlist of all sorts of different music. Everything on Moving Pictures by Rush sounds Fantastic. The N6 Pro is still super detailed but it's a bit too cold w/o the extra bass the N6 has.
The N6 really brings it. I think it was @Spamateur, @tma6 or @Luchyres who mentioned that you still get 90% of the detail in the N6. I'd say it's more like 85%, but boy is it excellent. I've also been playing with EQ's on the L2pro today and while I got it sounding really good, The Nuarl's are just a whole different kind of Samurai magic. I"m keeping the N6. If you haven't tried them or think they are too expensive @ $130 i'd urge you to take the leap. You won't be disappointed. I recant what I said earlier about them not handling poorly mastered music well. I think burning them in really helped.
For example, Working Man of RUSH (1974) is a pretty poorly recorded track and on my L2pro's I had it sound pretty dang good. On the N6 everything sounds better.
Edit: I also did some minor EQing in spotify, and the N6 responded really well.
Same tips right, comparing the Nuarl with each other. Still thinking they probably both need more hours. Seem close though to make preference be the deciding factor. What about the stage size??
I got to checkout with the Edifier, which seems in stock but no volume control according to the manual...
Then also, in the Helm video it is obvious to see the rotary control thing was an issue so they scrapped it but don't think I want touch. So, my list is seemingly getting shorter and shorter.