Sofacykel
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Writing you all again, on my fourth set of X2's - this time being an X2HR.
Been listening for about a week now enjoying it a fair bit but I couldn't help but notice some sounds being more prominent in the right channel. I felt like I had to squeeze the left cup a bit closer to get perfect detail and stereo imaging even though general volume wasn't totally imbalanced - As if I had to keep equalizing my ears or make my left one pop. I kept going back and forth between my X2HR and my JVC HA-FXT90, AKG K-240 and Audio Technica ATH-M50 suspecting something might be up. I couldn't exactly pinpoint the frequency so I couldn't confirm it with a tone generator until I got a bit creative with RightMark Audio Analyzer, running a test with one channel turned off each multiple times.
Now as stated in the picture this is in no way indicative of the actual X2HR frequency response, I was only looking for weirdness and outliers. Which I found by the red arrow. So I went to http://onlinetonegenerator.com/ to try and replicate what the audio analyzer found and sure enough by 2660Hz the sound slowly starts crawling right and worsens until 2800... Comes back center around 3500.
Now call me a snob or whatever but I'm not going to pay 240€ for that. This pair is going back, refund, can't be bothered with RMA. I am done with this model, screw Fidelio and in particular the X2.
Bye bye.
Edit: I'd like to point out that pads have nothing to do with this. They're perfect, through and through. I tried changing them around or doing them upside down but no change. Tried another cable. Tried a different source. Tried wearing them in reverse. The imbalance at that frequency range is not placebo, it does exist and it's not imperceptible - Most definitely not! In an X2HR...
Been listening for about a week now enjoying it a fair bit but I couldn't help but notice some sounds being more prominent in the right channel. I felt like I had to squeeze the left cup a bit closer to get perfect detail and stereo imaging even though general volume wasn't totally imbalanced - As if I had to keep equalizing my ears or make my left one pop. I kept going back and forth between my X2HR and my JVC HA-FXT90, AKG K-240 and Audio Technica ATH-M50 suspecting something might be up. I couldn't exactly pinpoint the frequency so I couldn't confirm it with a tone generator until I got a bit creative with RightMark Audio Analyzer, running a test with one channel turned off each multiple times.
Now as stated in the picture this is in no way indicative of the actual X2HR frequency response, I was only looking for weirdness and outliers. Which I found by the red arrow. So I went to http://onlinetonegenerator.com/ to try and replicate what the audio analyzer found and sure enough by 2660Hz the sound slowly starts crawling right and worsens until 2800... Comes back center around 3500.
Now call me a snob or whatever but I'm not going to pay 240€ for that. This pair is going back, refund, can't be bothered with RMA. I am done with this model, screw Fidelio and in particular the X2.
Bye bye.
Edit: I'd like to point out that pads have nothing to do with this. They're perfect, through and through. I tried changing them around or doing them upside down but no change. Tried another cable. Tried a different source. Tried wearing them in reverse. The imbalance at that frequency range is not placebo, it does exist and it's not imperceptible - Most definitely not! In an X2HR...
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