doublea71
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Not sure I follow his recommendation of a Cowon product for more low-end....
Not sure I follow his recommendation of a Cowon product for more low-end....
I thought this line "they are sure good enough to cause the overall value of the LCD-3 and Hifiman Planar Magnetic’s to drastically depreciate in value." is quite funny. To those LCD-3 owners who are willing to shell out extra $900-$1000 for that incremental improvement over LCD-2, I doubt they are really bothered with the level the MDs can achieve despite it punching above its weight.
I wrote that article. First, let me apologize for any misunderstandings about it that you may have encountered. I was not implying the LCD-3 had inferior or comparable sonic clarity to the Mad Dog's mid range. Only one sentence prior to that quote you posted, I mentioned the LCD-3 clarity in the mid range to still be well out of realm of the Mad Dog. I don't feel the Audeze LCD-3 and Hifiman HE500 models to exude 5x the clarity for over 5x the price tag of the Mad Dog. The price to performance in these models and all of Hi-Fi audio is not linear. Double the price does not equate to double the clarity.
Most definitely not.
I thought this line "they are sure good enough to cause the overall value of the LCD-3 and Hifiman Planar Magnetic’s to drastically depreciate in value." is quite funny. To those LCD-3 owners who are willing to shell out extra $900-$1000 for that incremental improvement over LCD-2, I doubt they are really bothered with the level the MDs can achieve despite it punching above its weight.
Yes, I share the same sentiments when I switched from my MDs to HE-6 on my Decware Mini Torii amp. No comparison in my opinion. Does HE-6 sound 4 times better than MDs? Probably not. Everyone knows the performance to cost ratio is never linear in the audio world. Does SR-009 sound 15/7 times better than the MDs/ADs? Might as well inform the owners of SR-009 too that the overall value of their headphone has just depreciated drastically with the introduction of Alpha dogs.As someone who owns the MadDogs and just sold the HE-6 (in anticipation of the next version) this is my take on them:
Just the lower end on the HE-6 will hammer the MD,s to kingdom come and lets not even talk about the remaining freq range, I always
preferred the HE-6 for Trance and other bass heavy genres as the MD simply couldn't keep up even on the same amp.
I admire Dan and have even had the privilege to speak to him a couple of times and bought a MD when they still had the Shure 840 pads last
year June but this is simply a gross misrepresentation of the sound of these cans.
The MD has a fluid sound and very good dynamics (I call it the Easy Rider of headphones for its fluidity) and does punch way above its weight
and I look forward to the AD but it will take a LOT for the AD/MD to dethrone the HE-6/LCDx. The sound signature is of course similar but the
detail and technicalities are on a different level.