Yeah, although they have the opposite sound signature, they both sounds relatively balanced, very natural, uncolored and smooth. Therefore, I appreciate both phones since they're able to deliver both realistic and musically sound.
The Empyrean’s are a very good all around headphone. It’s one of the best I’ve heard at making anything I listen to enjoyable. They don’t overload you with details but they give you enough of everything that makes music a joy to listen to through them. For that, it’s hard to knock what they do and the way they portray music. Are they the last word? That’s completely up to the listener.
Quite a few of my headphones; Audeze LCD-4z’s, Hifiman HEKse’s, Klipsch HP-3’s, and Susvara’s. The HP-3 were also excellent all a rounders but the Empyrean’s did everything they could do with more refinement, better imaging, better bass definition, meatier midrange, and a smoother treble response. The Empyrean’s have a lot in common with the 4z’s, but in the end I gave the edge to 4z’s when both are matched with a silver cable. The HEKse’s have a different tonality than Empyrean’s and I would call the complementary headphones because of it. The HEKse’s are more open, airer, more extended at both ends of the spectrum, with a cleaner, clearer midrange. The Empyrean’s sound much warmer, less resolving, and gives up some transparency levels in comparison to HEKse’s. The Susvara’s, well they are better than all of them
I'd also say that the Empyrean really benefit a lot from copper-silver fusion or pure silver cables.Quite a few of my headphones; Audeze LCD-4z’s, Hifiman HEKse’s, Klipsch HP-3’s, and Susvara’s. The HP-3 were also excellent all a rounders but the Empyrean’s did everything they could do with more refinement, better imaging, better bass definition, meatier midrange, and a smoother treble response. The Empyrean’s have a lot in common with the 4z’s, but in the end I gave the edge to 4z’s when both are matched with a silver cable. The HEKse’s have a different tonality than Empyrean’s and I would call the complementary headphones because of it. The HEKse’s are more open, airer, more extended at both ends of the spectrum, with a cleaner, clearer midrange. The Empyrean’s sound much warmer, less resolving, and gives up some transparency levels in comparison to HEKse’s. The Susvara’s, well they are better than all of them
Agreed, a silver cable on the Empyrean's really opens them up. Details, clarity are greatly improved with a silver cable attached to them. Bass is tighten up and so it the midrange. The choice of earpads also effects the sound.
I am hoping to order a pair of Empyrean’s in the coming months and have read and watched many reviews expounding the performance pairing with silver cables. Of course, I want to make the right choice of cables to get the best out of the Empyrean’s.
Silver is the most conductive (least resistive) of the metals alone. This accounts for the “quicker” transients and rendition of lower-level detail in music when silver cables are used for headphones.I am hoping to order a pair of Empyrean’s in the coming months and have read and watched many reviews expounding the performance pairing with silver cables. Of course, I want to make the right choice of cables to get the best out of the Empyrean’s.
I am being serious here and looking for guidance: What precisely, does the silver cable do to the signal that increases the clarity? I assume the silver cables can attenuate certain frequencies,
Thanks for your answer, however, the resistance of a conductor doesn’t alter the speed of signal propagation. The speed can be affected by the insulation surrounding the wire (the dielectric) but this only changes the speed of entire signal (not just the initial pulses of energy that a transient consists of) by an insignificant amount. As an example: if the music calls for, say, a drum hit, the drum hit arrives at the same time as the rest of the music, whether it is delayed by 4 nanoseconds or 30 minutes, the relative “quickness” is determined by the recording and the reproduction equipment (DAC/amp/headphones). No part of the music is selectively accelerated by the cable making that part “quicker”, it just arrives along with the rest of the piece, if it didn’t it would also be out of sync.
It may be that old syndrome that has been adopted by audiofilly types: mineisbetterthanyourscuzitcostsmore_itis
I certainly hope there is more to it than that.
