pichu
500+ Head-Fier
I sold my Aivas this past week. Why?
I want to start off by saying the build quality is superb and I love the way the headphones feel and how they fit on my head. The pads especially are a unique creation and I fell in love with them from first touch.
When it comes to the sound quality, simply put, the highs are nice, the bass is okay as a planar, and the mids are ruined. The mids are so bad on these headphones to me that it becomes impossible to comfortably listen to them, especially with my ELEX, Auteur and 800S sitting 3 feet away from me. I listen to a lot of vocal focused music and aocustics. Eric Claptons 1992 Unplugged Album sounds so artificial with a distinct muffled sound throughout the midrange.
For the asking price of $599 USD, I would 10/10 times pay $100 more for the Focal Elex. Also not a BIG deal, but the lack of 1/4 adapter can be annoying. I feel they should know that a large chunk of their target audience will be listening on 1/4 jacks. Id probably still take my 6XX for $200 over these as timbre and the midrange are of upmost importance when i sit down to listen to music.
* I did NOT EQ these, so Im not sure how responsive they are to EQ. Possibly they could be fixed up with some proper implementation? Anyone have any luck with this?
I want to start off by saying the build quality is superb and I love the way the headphones feel and how they fit on my head. The pads especially are a unique creation and I fell in love with them from first touch.
When it comes to the sound quality, simply put, the highs are nice, the bass is okay as a planar, and the mids are ruined. The mids are so bad on these headphones to me that it becomes impossible to comfortably listen to them, especially with my ELEX, Auteur and 800S sitting 3 feet away from me. I listen to a lot of vocal focused music and aocustics. Eric Claptons 1992 Unplugged Album sounds so artificial with a distinct muffled sound throughout the midrange.
For the asking price of $599 USD, I would 10/10 times pay $100 more for the Focal Elex. Also not a BIG deal, but the lack of 1/4 adapter can be annoying. I feel they should know that a large chunk of their target audience will be listening on 1/4 jacks. Id probably still take my 6XX for $200 over these as timbre and the midrange are of upmost importance when i sit down to listen to music.
* I did NOT EQ these, so Im not sure how responsive they are to EQ. Possibly they could be fixed up with some proper implementation? Anyone have any luck with this?