What a turnaround of events. I've now gone VERY far with the grille and dealing with the Rosson team directly with a tonne of back and forth.
I think their team is even more excited about the project than I am if that's even possible.
I guess good things happen to those that wait.
This will turn out to be a few months in the process but should be well worth the wait.
To be continued.
Do you have any updates on this for our knowledge here?
Has anyone compared the RAD-0 to the LCD-5?
I’ve A/B’d them both at my local headphone shop for about an hour of back and forth.
I own the RAD-0 so keep that in mind as i’m sure there’s a bit of bias.
The LCD5 is very detailed. Quite a noticeable jump in resolution and overall performance with excellent clarity in the mid range. Great performance on clarity of trailing ends of tones and subtle details in the highs that the Rosson can’t complete with.
However, the LCD5 by comparison is bass lean. It’s a VERY mid forward headphone. So much so that it takes over the mix for me and it’s missing the low end thump and sparkly treble that I need in a headphone to enjoy them. It’s also quite relaxed in the treble. For me it lacks the sparkle and energy and can come across quite boring for the genres that I listen to.
I find the Rosson much more tonally balanced with excellent extension on both the lows and highs. The bass on the RAD-0 has a much nicer sense of note weight. The mids are perfect. Not as detailed as the LCD5 but close enough for me to not want for anything. My original intention was to possibly sell a few of my other headphones to “upgrade” to the LCD5 but after hearing them compared to the Rosson I was quite disappointed in the Audeze’s.
Like all headphones I think source and signal chain plays a much bigger role than some reviewers would suggest. I’m sure the LCD5 could sound awesome with specific gear but for me I vastly prefer the RAD-0.
I can't personally attest to this, but while it is often noted to be bass lean I've heard several people indicate that the LCD5 is significantly better with eq.
Take what I'm saying with a grain of salt though. I've not personally experienced it either way, I've just seen that sentiment echoed many times.
I used to own the Rad-0 and listened to the LCD5 at Axpona and agree 100% with your assessment.
As someone who owned and loves the LCD-X/XC, I wholeheartedly agree as well. I was very disappointed in the stock tuning of the LCD-5. It was too mid forward, bass was lacking, and treble just felt off for the other two areas aforementioned.
For it's excellence in comfort and build, I found the sound to be lacking. Maybe I went in with too many expectations.
For those having hotspot on the top of the head, I've tried the leather suspension strap mod made by @puck and it's really night and day. It fits perfectly on the head and the hotspot disappears
Just wanted to share my impressions if it can help someone
That mod is awesome!
Wonder why Alex is not doing something like this ?
Aesthetics maybe? Either way, it's good that there's enough space there for folks to mod
I'll have to ask the bossman!