Checking out reviews and opinions. It seems like 560 is really sharp and bad headphone.
There are at least 3 versions, go out on the 560 site and make that assertion.
People prefer Sundara and describe it as upgraded 560.
That is not a universally held opinion, not by a long shot.
Ananda is whole another level ... Treble peak discussion in this sub really weird since i don't really see this argument anywhere else... I'm seeing this treble peak, sharpness, fatiguing, sibilance arguments only in this forum.
Don't think you looked all that hard.
Headfonics: The lower treble remains fairly linear with the mids
up to around 6-7k where it elevates fairly quickly and sustains to around 10k. Higher pitched instrumental timbre is thus a lot cleaner sounding and more to the fore on the Ananda.
Headphoneer: The Sundara feels more dynamical, it slams harder. In many ways (than the Ananda); The 560 has better low bass, is more transparent and more comfortable to wear.
The HE1000 v2´s presentation is not very different from the Ananda´s. But it has none of the Ananda weaknesses. It has similar sound-staging but is better especially in depth. It digs deeper in the bass, it has better dynamics, the tonality is more coherent, and it is cleaner across the range: The slight midrange bloom of the Ananda is exchanged for a very well balanced and even more detailed midrange. (Yes the KEK v2 is a lot more expensive, but, Ananda not perfect).
But overall they do like them.
Diyaudio: The peak around 8kHz is audible.
The CSD looks a bit ‘messy’ compared to dynamic headphones and
does show the 8kHz peak is a resonance and not just a frequency response thing.
Also around 4kHz and in the highest frequencies resonances are seen. The membrane isn’t damped that well it seems.
The plot shows a ‘bump’ around 0.4ms which means there is an
audible emphasis around 2.5kHz which is not seen on the frequency plots, in fact it even shows a dip there. It does account for the ‘clear’ sound it has.
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user: ...peak around 8kHz. This has a negative effect on high pitched percussion instruments and the leading edges of some notes so things start to sound a little bit artificial.
They are not good for classical. Timbre is off although tonality is good. They sound very thin / lean and above all decay is very fast so high pitched instruments sound fake... After a half an hour they become very fatiguing
user2: Ananda falls a bit short on my gear (SE output from THX AAA 789), most notably in the opening measures of the third movement (Presto) of Beethoven's 7th Symphony (c: Karajan) (5564189). On the Ananda, the timpani and the strings meld together into an incoherent blob at the soundstage "layer" that is closest to my ear. Definitely fatiguing and non-euphonic to me.
Most of the rest of the time it was Ananda vs HEX v2 and vs 500/560.
You know what I see? An Ananda fan defending his financial and ego investment.