I told you
. I was looking for an acceptable 'Audeze alike' headphone, and I found out that Audeze is ' so good' because of the earpads they are using.... a lot of technology of planar foils, wires, magnets...it's all the same! So what's the most important difference why the Audeze's are so f^W$ing good??
I did compare a lot of my own headphones with Audeze LCD-XC. I did replace the earpads on a lot of very extreme expensive electrostatics / planar / dynamic headphones....... Prices differs from 25.000e to 150e..... My conclusion was and still is a simple as it is:
!!-- It's (mostly) all about the ****ing earpads - !! (good red wine might help also)
But ok.... so what did I do? I did put my Audeze alike earpads on Stax / Hifiman / Fostex / Takstar / Blon / BossHifi / etc etc... price of the headphones from the range between 60e - 300e.
Conclusion: With the 'Audeze alike' earpads, and properly fixed on the earcups.... all of the headphones did get 1000% (or more) improvement of quality of the sound. Dynamics, comfort, bass balance, etc etc... it all was a very, very big improvement. Strange thing in the way the designers of the headphones think, is that those designers did not put on some amazing good quality of earpads on their headphones...
Why... tell me why???