hey
@Maxx134 !
I got mixed up:
I'm referring to the new DNA Pro phones below!!
I'll happily do that comparison when I get back to the Bay Area (been down here w/ my boy
@warrenpchi for the LAOC Audio Society Gala - man it was boring, OOPS)!!
I just heard these courtesy of Warren and I will have a pair for review by the time I get home!
I was very impressed - and the shape bothered me too, but not in terms of looks - I dig the design, but would it be comfortable over my ear?
I was, and made a great seal with very little clamping force and the 3.5mm input means I can use a better quality cable on them like my Nordost
Heimdall iKable!
Initial impressions - Playing Donny Hathaway (off
the Donny Hathaway Collection) - sounded very natural. Things decayed realistically, and the tonal quality was pleasant and engaging. Strings and piano on sounded great, transient was fast and they had plenty of air. More than I expected for the price!!!
Then I dropped some Burial and Alix Perez - bass music: And I was impressed again! They're not bass-heavy at all, maybe even a touch light, but, I'll know that for sure when I hook em up to my personal reference rig - as I had the Lehmann Audio Linear USB w/ me at this hotel for a review... So while I've come to know the amp well, its not a reference point for me. But the midrange was sweet, there was sparkle, and actually things were far more balanced than I expected. So they shut down my preconceptions the moment I turned them on.
I was never a fan of BeatsByDre (when it was Monster/Beats), though I once wrote about the SoloHD's for
The Daily Swarm and said, while they weren't for me, they were EQ'd for their demographic (bass-heavy,
for peeps bumpin tunes with CRAZY dB levels in their whips, etc.) - obviously, because they sold like MAD! I think Noel Lee may have been out to prove he can still get a solid can built with this DNA.
I had my VMODA M-100s w/ me
@Maxx134 !! I thought the M100s had greater bass punch and midrange forwardness - but the DNA nailed acoustic music with more finesse actually.
So I'm psyched to compare them to my VMODA M80s!!