New Audeze LCD3

[gordec]

What are people using for headphones hanger? I prefer a wooden one but some of the omega shaped ones on Amazon haves less than stellar reviews. Also they seem to have sharp legs that may scratch up the table surface.

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[EdmontonCanuck]

What are people using for headphones hanger? I prefer a wooden one but some of the omega shaped ones on Amazon haves less than stellar reviews. Also they seem to have sharp legs that may scratch up the table surface.

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I  personally use Woo Audio's headphone stand, which I like very much.
 

 

[SonicTrance]

I also use woo stands. Gets the job done and looks pretty. What more do need? I don't like omega type stands as the pads gets compressed while sitting on the stand.

 

 

[gordec]

I also use woo stands. Gets the job done and looks pretty. What more do need? I don't like omega type stands as the pads gets compressed while sitting on the stand.

 

Great point on the earpad compression. Thanks. Got the Woo's.

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[Lohb]

  I also use woo stands. Gets the job done and looks pretty. What more do need? I don't like omega type stands as the pads gets compressed while sitting on the stand.

 

Yep, that's right. Omega style do not let the pads breathe/vent easily after usage.

 

[Articnoise]

My dealer lost my LCD 3F from 2014 when he there to sending them back to Audeze. I got a brand new pair instead after many month of waiting. The new LCD3 I got seems a bit different than the two others I have own. First of all the fazors are sharper and not so rounded at the end. Second its looks like they have some type of thing between the ear pad and the wood that looks a bit like what they have on the LCD4. Not really sure it’s the same thou. Finally the FR plot indicating much more treble around 10Kz. I will see (hear) if it’s really a difference in sound after more burn in.

 

 

[manpowre]

  My dealer lost my LCD 3F from 2014 when he there to sending them back to Audeze. I got a brand new pair instead after many month of waiting. The new LCD3 I got seems a bit different than the two others I have own. First of all the fazors are sharper and not so rounded at the end. Second its looks like they have some type of thing between the ear pad and the wood that looks a bit like what they have on the LCD4. Not really sure it’s the same thou. Finally the FR plot indicating much more treble around 10Kz. I will see (hear) if it’s really a difference in sound after more burn in.

 

 
What is the 3 digit starting serial number on your 2016 revision ? Also can you take a picture of the "thing" between wood and pad ? Mine is october 2015, and has 282.

 

[take8]

I too just got a LCD-3, with a date of March 2016 and a build starting with 282. My FR graph also shows a bump in the treble at 10 kHz, and has a more pronounced dip between 4-5 kHz than the previous user posted.
 
It's worth noting that both of our FR graphs are different than the following image, from the Audeze Blog (https://www.audeze.com/about-audeze/blog/lcd3-frequency-response-and-waterfall-plot).
 

 
 
The increased 10 kHz response makes these sound more transparent and a bit more strident than the LCD-3 I tried before purchasing, from Lumoid a few months ago.
 
As far as the fazor shape, I can't comment on whether it's sharper since I didn't spend a lot of time feeling the one I'd tried previously. My ears definitely don't hit the fazors, though, and they did sometimes with the previous ones I tried, but that could easily have been the pads being more broken-in, bringing my ears closer.
 
Here's my graph:
 

 
Here's my pad/cup spacing:
 

 

[manpowre]

This is actually getting very very funny.
 
Audeze's website referr to this graph:
https://www.audeze.com/about-audeze/blog/lcd3-frequency-response-and-waterfall-plot
 

Here's the thing, is that from pre-2016 revision of the LCD3 or is it from post 2016 revision ? Audeze has already confirmed that they have changed the sound in LCD3.
 
Ordering or purchasing LCD3 now, the consumer have NO way of knowing which version they are listening to, or purchasing. 
 
If you go to a hifi store and listens to LCD3, eg. the new one, and you decide to purchase it, and the sales rep goes to his storage picks up whats just a few months old produced LCD3, but its the pre-2016 version. What you are listening to and what you get is 2 different things. Especially in this hobby where we take the product home and we spend hundreds if not thousands of hours digging into the sound with thousands of audio tracks.
 
Or, if the issue with the 2016 revision of LCD3 is that it HAS a spike in 10khz that has been mentioned here to be "uncomfortable" and you listen to a pre-2016 revision in store and the sales rep goes to his stock and picks up a 2016 revision version. Then you come home and you hear this "uncomfortable" 10khz spike. Again, its not the same audible product.
 
I do know different cans of same make also sound different, with different amplifiers. But the revision is hardware related changes to improve sonic sound.
 
If you ask me, this is getting redicolous by Audeze!

 

[DivergeUnify]

  This is actually getting very very funny.
 
Audeze's website referr to this graph:
https://www.audeze.com/about-audeze/blog/lcd3-frequency-response-and-waterfall-plot
 

Here's the thing, is that from pre-2016 revision of the LCD3 or is it from post 2016 revision ? Audeze has already confirmed that they have changed the sound in LCD3.
 
Ordering or purchasing LCD3 now, the consumer have NO way of knowing which version they are listening to, or purchasing. 
 
If you go to a hifi store and listens to LCD3, eg. the new one, and you decide to purchase it, and the sales rep goes to his storage picks up whats just a few months old produced LCD3, but its the pre-2016 version. What you are listening to and what you get is 2 different things. Especially in this hobby where we take the product home and we spend hundreds if not thousands of hours digging into the sound with thousands of audio tracks.
 
Or, if the issue with the 2016 revision of LCD3 is that it HAS a spike in 10khz that has been mentioned here to be "uncomfortable" and you listen to a pre-2016 revision in store and the sales rep goes to his stock and picks up a 2016 revision version. Then you come home and you hear this "uncomfortable" 10khz spike. Again, its not the same audible product.
 
I do know different cans of same make also sound different, with different amplifiers. But the revision is hardware related changes to improve sonic sound.
 
If you ask me, this is getting redicolous by Audeze!

It says at the top, it's from 2011

 

[take8]

  It says at the top, it's from 2011

 
Not to mention it has their old styled logo, so it's a vintage chart. 

 

[YugiRider2]

I just purchased one even though I'm still not sure on the weight. Having previously owned a X and sold it due to the arrival of my Edition X, I'm not sure if I will find these too painful for listening.
I will try to improve the comfort by getting extended yoke rods as well as a Lohb's headstrap or the new carbon fiber headband.

 

[YugiRider2]

Just saw that Audeze changed the LCD-3 in 2016... damn the one I purchased was from October 2015 with 282 as the starting 3 digits of the serial number.
Is the new update addressing the treble? Would you say the changes have made the treble brighter?

 

[SonicTrance]

Hmm...
I had my drivers replaced in januari 2016. I wonder if they implemented the changes to mine. I'll ask them.
 
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[exsomnis]

Hmm...
I had my drivers replaced in januari 2016. I wonder if they implemented the changes to mine. I'll ask them.

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The spike at 10khz seems to indicate that it is the new revision. I've been listening to my dealer's demo LCD 3F that had its drivers replaced last month and it's distinctly airy, which does wonders for the sense of space. But after a week of listening they're definitely on the bright side. I'm hoping that my copy is a bit less bright but it looks like that's how the LCD 3 is voiced now.

Regardless, they are still amazing cans, albeit with a significantly different flavour to the original un-fazored 3.