WernerW
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We will see on measurements soon Werner. The rest is speculation.
Shame Nomax did not post the video with Axel Grell saying why Stax has no bass lol.
This video was shown to me in Heidelberg, Thomas (unfortunately, it is not yet available publicly).
Axel claimed that Stax doesn't channelize bass through their earpad geometry compared to some other headphone manufacturers. But he did not concretely say that X9000 had a bad bass!
I interpret this by applying Bernoulli's Law, which means increasing the air pressure by decreasing the duct diameter as the sound wave travels from the diaphragm to the ear.
Of course, this allows you to increase the decibels in the pressure-sensitive low-frequency range.
However, this does not automatically mean that the decibels for certain headphones are too low without the application of such a "Bernoulli pressure amplification". It might even get too much boost there. Or do you want to have an exaggerated bass hump? Maybe nice for Heavy Metal music. Take an EQ if you like to adapt the FR to your very personal preferences!
And please don't forget that even Axel - whom I admire as a very experienced and knowledgeable electrical engineer - is talking about his own "baby" (= Sennheiser HE-1) compared to the competition (at eye hight, this certainly is the Stax X9000 and, of course, the Shangri-La Sr).
Normally, no one professionally involved in the headphone business is free from biased opinions .
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