chennaxin95
New Head-Fier
Has been looking at those, not sure how much of a step up would be against my Sandara?
Please try it straight out of the smartphone too, that dac/amp game isn't for me, rather use my lg v30 that I trust enough.
Also I consider paint silver grills to matte black to upgrade sexiness, would that be the task that is worth effort?
Susvara.I've been interested in these for a while but am still on the fence. Not sure if I should get these or go for something higher end from HiFiMAN.
but I'd be damned if they don't pretty much give you everything else you could ever really want. For this price I can't imagine not being satisfied.
these dessert plates on your head will hit hard when they need to, give you enough treble splash, and keep track of most instruments during busy segments while confining them to a relatively small area in and around your head.
but what these headphones give you is a little bit of everything, natural tonality and decay, bass, slam when needed, adequate detail and pleasing, non-fatiguing treble at a high level of performance expected at this price range (and maybe a little more than the current $500 asking price).
Susvara.
Hi all, I am using K702 and Q701 now, and love the musicality and imaging, separation, layering, relaxation of K702 amplified by Audio-gd C-2 amp, a single-end amp whose output can be up to +/- 30V DC.
I have enjoyed K702 for 7 years. Is upgrading to a Hifiman edition xx reasonable if I prefer the musicality? Maybe I will add a balanced amp next year(I have a balanced Audio-gd DAC.). So I will have single-end amps only in 2020. Even the 4-pin XLR output of C-2 is for the convenient usage only.
I am also considering Massdrop's AEON Open X but I prefer Hifiman's technology more as now.
In my experience with the K702, it was quite a bit different from the Edition XX or most headphones for that matter. I was not a fan of the K702 and found them to be cold, lacking in impact and especially bass. The Edition XX is anything but a linear upgrade from those. There's satisfying bass presence as well as impact, a much smaller soundstage, and not nearly as much emphasis on upper midrange and treble, and as such doesn't have the airiness of the K702s. It's a natural, somewhat neutral sounding headphone with a touch of warmth, clean and unexaggerated highs, and comparitively more forward midrange and intimate staging.
So, I know this is really late but... it’s been an extraordinarily busy season lately both the holidays and work-wise... I’ve barely heard head time with these wonderful headphones, unfortunately, and until tonight it’s been largely with a balanced cable on the Cavali LCX or THX 789 but I plugged them into the humble headphone port of my
iPhone SE just now, expecting to be amused and underwhelmed - and it’s not world beating performance by any means but it’s surprisingly delicious and fun sounding, although I did need to max volume to get the big sound I expect.
So, my LG V20 is out on indefinite loan but I’d guess that given it has a significantly more powerful amplifier and better DAC, that it would drive it even better than the iPhone SE - now whether that translates to your satisfaction or not, I’m not sure.
You think I'm made of money? That's a bit out of my range.