brokenthumb
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Well one could argue that the Stax SR-009 are true hi-fi and the other cans like the LCD-2/3, HD800, HE-6/500 are really just upper mid-fi if all that matters is speed, resolution, etc. Most agree that the 009 is on another level.
It's all relative. We generally don't assess phones by tonal balance, but by driver speed and sensitivity. In other words, resolution is usually what dictates better can, worse can--at least in this community. So since 8 years ago, we have HD800s, Omega 2's, LCD-2s, the HE-series (some of which are really cheap), T1's, and so on.
Pretty much all of them are faster transducers than the HD650. So the scale went up and hi-fi became $1K cans. Cans with less resolution naturally fell to mid-fi, and the worst are lo-fi. It just makes things easier to talk about. It's nothing personal--though I'm not sure why anyone would include a can in their self-identity anyway.
Well one could argue that the Stax SR-009 are true hi-fi and the other cans like the LCD-2/3, HD800, HE-6/500 are really just upper mid-fi if all that matters is speed, resolution, etc. Most agree that the 009 is on another level.