TheMiddleSky
Headphoneus Supremus
nico is enjoying it
Haha, yeah sure, it's already been a while since the last time I got "Wow" in audio world, and Katana is definitely deserve that "Wow' response. (Well, and sony Z1R too actually, but that's for another story)
AIriness feeling, pin point imaging, separation (air between instrument) are things that really special in Katana, so I'm sure you will have no problem there.
However, comparing iem to any open back headphone is really hard to do, HD600 is simpy an open headphone, with so many holes inside, definitely there's no iem in the world that can match any airiness of it. But, if you talk the technicality like detail, imaging, speed, accuracy, black background, then Katana wins easily.
K10 vs Katana will have a good fight, both have their pros.
Imagine Katana is something more to accuracy, neutral (with slight warm feeling), microscopic sparkle treble (more detail than K10 indeed), slight forward vocal which is very good to bring emotions, and speedy tight bass. I really like how this iem produce bass, it feels like you holding on a bullet in your hand, it's not a big in quantity, but fefinitely you feel the weight and high density of it with tight precision of decay. Hint words: neutral, accuracy, detail, clean, musical.
K10 is more to big and bold sound, bass is definitely on big side, while still being punchy with good speed, plenty of texture there, though I hear cleaner texture in Katana. Midrange is a bit on relax, take few step away from Katana (like 2 rows), having thicker body, and more forgiving to any mainstream songs. Treble still sparkle well, less some micro detail compare to Katana though. Hint words: Bass, musical, relax, meaty sound
Never tested Adel, cannot make any comparison for that.
(where comparable)
