[SolarCetacean]

Outside of the feedback issue (Would love to hear other users able to reproduce this?). I'm sitting on my Liquid Platinum, but very tempted to just pull the trigger on a v281 Reissue.

What were your feelings on SS vs DS Tungsten?

Ah sorry, I listened to the two over a month apart, and with different songs, and on different amps, so I don't think I could make a detailed comparison between the two, especially since my experience is that amp feedback makes such a difference in the presentation. From memory, they aren't all that different though, so when I heard the SS Tungsten, my mind went "yes, this sounds very much like the other Tungsten".

 

[Corporalis]

So tungsten will be on sale on 24.11.23? Did I just buy a pair of headphones for 2k just for them to be on sale two weeks later?!

Bruh

 

[Tulon]

@Corporalis No, they aren't going on sale (as in a discount), they're going on sale as in "available for purchase. We're not doing a drop this week because we took to many orders last week.

 

[elira]

So tungsten will be on sale on 24.11.23? Did I just buy a pair of headphones for 2k just for them to be on sale two weeks later?!

Bruh

I don't think on sale, just for sale.

 

[DisalvoA992]

So tungsten will be on sale on 24.11.23? Did I just buy a pair of headphones for 2k just for them to be on sale two weeks later?!

Bruh

It has been understood that Ryan is doing rolling releases every other week or so unless he specifies otherwise due to limited labor/supplies he has, yep yep. I noticed in this particular case, every other Friday.

 

[Corporalis]

Ah well I already shed a tear lol.

homepage said it’s on sale on 24.11. which would be Black Friday so I concluded it will already have a price drop.

Anyways. I hope they’ll arrive soon

 

[Tchoupitoulas]

I'd like to add to my previous post about hearing the single-sided version of the Tungsten at Capital Audio Fest last weekend. I posted an enthusiastic set of impressions of these headphones from a fancy setup, the Mytek Empire streamer and DAC and then the Headamp CFA3 amp. The next day I got to hear a different pair of the single-sided Tungstens with a much more modest setup, the Geshelli Labs J2 DAC and E2 amp, which together sell for about $500 vs the ca. $30k for the other, fancy setup.

There was a bit of a problem with the right channel of the second pair of Tungsten, which the Geshelli rep knew about, but when I got the sound coming through properly, the headphones again sounded really good. They were significantly less impressive than with the other setup, but for $500, the sound was very good. The bass was still nicely forward and robust, if not quite as tight and impactful, and the mids were likewise pleasant, and I didn't hear any oddities with the treble. The overall sound, though, was much less refined, less resolving, less even and smooth, and just a bit rougher around the edges, as you'd expect for a comparatively modest chain.

I don't think I'd recommend the Geshelli stack as a pairing with the Tungsten. But if you're on a tight budget and have dropped $1,600 on the headphones, the Geshelli gear will serve you reasonably well while you refill the piggy bank to get a source and amp pairing that'd do justice to the headphones. They clearly scale well, and impressively, with high-end gear. But, for the price, the Tungsten and Geshelli stack would get you going nicely.

 

[DisalvoA992]

I'm really wondering about the types of cables you can use with the Tungstens and this leads me to ask a few questions here:

-Knowing 4-pin XLR male to dual 3.5mm males exists, can each cup connector have a 3-pin XLR male to 3.5mm male cable going to it?
--Is this even possible?
--Are these cables a good idea? Redundant/not needed yes, I don't care about that, but it's the same thing going to the headphones yeah?
--Will these cables cause any issues a 4-pin XLR to dual 3.5mm male cable wouldn't?

I could just get a dual 3pin XLR males to 4pin XLR female cable, but I wanted to explore the possibility of separate 3-pin XLRs.

 

[Morpheas]

@Tchoupitoulas - Appreciate the perspective, not a lot of $500 stack vs X comparisons, and it's very relevant for people like me.

I'm probably going to just bite the bullet and snag a Violectric v281(Run it off a J2 ) can't see many comments or perspectives saying I'll regret getting it for the DS Tungsten.

 

[Corporalis]

I went with a A70 pro and will feed it from my element III with RCA. Hope it has enough power when the Tungstens arrive

 

[GoldStriker99]

I went with a A70 pro and will feed it from my element III with RCA. Hope it has enough power when the Tungstens arrive

Topping A70 Pro is known to have enough power

 

[Corporalis]

Topping A70 Pro is known to have enough power

Yeah but I don’t feed it with an D70 with balanced input and some other user said I’d loose a ton of output power with only the elements RCA output into the A70

 

[GoldStriker99]

Yeah but I don’t feed it with an D70 with balanced input and some other user said I’d loose a ton of output power with only the elements RCA output into the A70

You can get a good balanced dac for really cheap now days. I would reccomend a topping e50. I have seen them on the used market for around $100.

 

[G8torbyte]

I'm probably going to just bite the bullet and snag a Violectric v281(Run it off a J2 ) can't see many comments or perspectives saying I'll regret getting it for the DS Tungsten.

It will be a nice pairing. I had my J2 running to a Violectric V222 and it was good synergy.

 

[Ateefi]

Could anybody give me a definitive answer to what the difference is between the single and double sided Tungsten? Debating if I should try the easier to drive single or go with the double.