[406976]

  I switched my shipping over from free 2 day prime, to one day delivery for $3.99 more. It moved my delivery date from Nov 3rd, to Oct 31st. 

 

Wut ...my prime shipping estimated delivery date is still Tuesday, November 4, 2014 by 8pm.

 

[Sundown]

  Wut ...my prime shipping estimated delivery date is still Tuesday, November 4, 2014 by 8pm.

What state are you in? I'm in Southern California and have two Amazon warehouses in a 20 mile radius with me.

 

[406976]

  What state are you in? I'm in Southern California and have two Amazon warehouses in a 20 mile radius with me.

Oh you lucky duck!
 
I'm in FL at the moment.
 
Looks like a bit more waiting for me, but that's okay.
 
What type of music are you gonna listen to first?

 

[sappl3s]

  I switched my shipping over from free 2 day prime, to one day delivery for $3.99 more. It moved my delivery date from Nov 3rd, to Oct 31st. 

 

Ahhh I want to try this now. I was thinking I was fine with 2 day shipping and getting them monday. But the more I keep thinking about it, I really hate waiting over the weekend for stuff.

 

[Sundown]

  Oh you lucky duck!
 
I'm in FL at the moment.
 
Looks like a bit more waiting for me, but that's okay.
 
What type of music are you gonna listen to first?

My go to songs off the bat are.

 

 
 
Then I mostly listen to videos by HardwareCanucks, and videos by VICE. The HC videos with the mic that's used sounds really good imo so. VICE videos where they don't go out in the field, but the videos that are in a room, or interviews sound really good as well. 

 

[mouwen]

For $300 USD, it made the X2 very competitive
I own the X1 and can say it's generally on par with the HD600
The new X2 should have a good value for price

 

[CoiL]

 
I own the X1 and can say it's generally on par with the HD600

That`s nice to hear. Though, I haven`t heard HD600 myself.

 

[dmudan]

I currently have the HD650 and am expecting delivery of the X2 tomorrow. From what I have read of the X1 and now X2, they appear to be one of the biggest bargains in headphones. I'm surprised that even HD800 users have moved to the X1(see Amazon uk). The HD800 sound excellent IMHO. I have heard the Q701 which are very good too so it will be interesting to see from memory how the X2 holds up. It was interesting watching the innerfidelity video where he uses the LCD3 as an example of better bass but look at the LCD3 price so the X2 must be that good!

I have an Audiolab M-DAC so that should prove a good test bench for HD650 vs X2.

For those who are wondering about the HD600/650.. The HD600 is a more detailed 'monitor' kind of headphone whereas the HD650 sounds warmer/fuller and more involving with vocals that can sound very real.

Despite how good the HD650 may be they're not very revealing. My modified Pioneer A-400 with my MA RX6 speakers plus good cables are more revealing! This seems the wrong way round to me.

 

[Vartan]

I have an Audiolab M-DAC so that should prove a good test bench for HD650 vs X2.
 

 

 

[daylight]

I just bought these headphones and love them so much. EXCEPT one thing which sometimes is noticable and sometimes becomes annoying.
It has grainy like sandpaper treble on some songs (in fact, very often). It's difficult to describe but I think you know what I mean.
I wonder if other owners experience this and if it can be fixed somehow? Can it be source related? Because I'm listening straight out of my macbook.

 

[Sundown]

  I just bought these headphones and love them so much. EXCEPT one thing which sometimes is noticable and sometimes becomes annoying.
It has grainy like sandpaper treble on some songs. It's difficult to describe but I think you know what I mean.
I wonder if other owners experience this and if it can be fixed somehow? Can it be source related? Because I'm listening straight out of my macbook.

Please link us to these songs you experience this grainy noise with. Thank you.

 

[depleted]

I sometimes find the treble fatiguing too, now less than when I got them two weeks ago though
 
For what it's worth, with my macbook pro I feel the treble is slightly less detailed and hard, with my E10K its more airy, defined and possibly fatiguing
 
But it's not really fatigue by the way, nor sibilance, it's just very clear and tizzy, while still being warm and bassy.

 

[CoiL]

  I just bought these headphones and love them so much. EXCEPT one thing which sometimes is noticable and sometimes becomes annoying.
It has grainy like sandpaper treble on some songs (in fact, very often). It's difficult to describe but I think you know what I mean.
I wonder if other owners experience this and if it can be fixed somehow? Can it be source related? Because I'm listening straight out of my macbook.

Let them settle in for some time. Using any amping? What`s the source? I have read similar thing about X1 but after burn-in treble being smoothed out.

 

[daylight]

No no it's not fatiguing at all. I really enjoy treble - it's warm, smooth, detailed but has some graininess to some high frequencies, imagine like a subtle bad FM radio reception. That's what I mean.
Let's hope that it will be gone after burn in. I've only listened less than 30 hour in total so I'm really hoping it will fade away.

 

[CoiL]

Let`s hope it gets better and report us back. But Tyll also mentioned X2 (and also X1) treble being little grainy/gritty. Personally I don`t hear any graininess with my setup but my X1`s have had long "burn-in" with amping also.