I have both 404LE and 507. 507 is a bit shouty and tends to get sibilant even though the music isn't calling for it. Both have wonky, tall soundstage with no width and L-R channel soundstages do not seem to be connected to each other.
First of all, on my system 507 and 007 sounds almost equally detailed, that said,
There are 4 things, Omega II does better
1- Full round soundstage all around my head with surprisingly deep soundstage.(for such intimate sounding presentation). All lambdas except L700 have very tiny soundstage from my experience. Excellent top level imaging. Both 007 and 009 are still kings of imaging in my opinion.
2- Bass resolution, texture. This becomes very apparent when I'm comparing 507 to 007. 507's bass is quite good relatively to other lambdas, however it still doesn't offer clean sub bass with texture like Omega II can do.
3- Treble. I think this doesn't even need explanation, both 007 and 009 have fantastic treble performance especially with Carbon. Lambdas? Unfortunately no. This has something to do with the driver shape. Oval/Round shaped drivers do have less modes in treble range.
4- Mid texture. This is what 007 does better than anything else. I think that's what make some people still rave about 007.
What lambdas do better,
1- Energetic, funky mids. Some may call it shouty. That is not the case for 404LE in my opinion, sometimes I reach to my 404LE to listen fun & happy songs.
2- Lambdas sound like studio headphones. (Talking from my experiences and intuition)Instead of giving a proper image of the source, they present, image, position every detail in a way to make them more accessible to the listener. With top amps & dacs, 007 and ES-1A do not have to do such tricks to make all detail accessible to the listener.
3- 404LE's bass has better dynamics than 007's. 404LE has better dynamics overall.
I listened to 007's through 727 once and they sounded very boring. They sounded like an average planar actually. I keep hearing that 007 is laid back, thick etc, I don't know really, with Carbon they sound fast and actually even a bit aggressive to my ears.
I'll get my 009S this week. It's gonna be interesting to compare all to each other.
First of all, on my system 507 and 007 sounds almost equally detailed, that said,
There are 4 things, Omega II does better
1- Full round soundstage all around my head with surprisingly deep soundstage.(for such intimate sounding presentation). All lambdas except L700 have very tiny soundstage from my experience. Excellent top level imaging. Both 007 and 009 are still kings of imaging in my opinion.
2- Bass resolution, texture. This becomes very apparent when I'm comparing 507 to 007. 507's bass is quite good relatively to other lambdas, however it still doesn't offer clean sub bass with texture like Omega II can do.
3- Treble. I think this doesn't even need explanation, both 007 and 009 have fantastic treble performance especially with Carbon. Lambdas? Unfortunately no. This has something to do with the driver shape. Oval/Round shaped drivers do have less modes in treble range.
4- Mid texture. This is what 007 does better than anything else. I think that's what make some people still rave about 007.
What lambdas do better,
1- Energetic, funky mids. Some may call it shouty. That is not the case for 404LE in my opinion, sometimes I reach to my 404LE to listen fun & happy songs.
2- Lambdas sound like studio headphones. (Talking from my experiences and intuition)Instead of giving a proper image of the source, they present, image, position every detail in a way to make them more accessible to the listener. With top amps & dacs, 007 and ES-1A do not have to do such tricks to make all detail accessible to the listener.
3- 404LE's bass has better dynamics than 007's. 404LE has better dynamics overall.
I listened to 007's through 727 once and they sounded very boring. They sounded like an average planar actually. I keep hearing that 007 is laid back, thick etc, I don't know really, with Carbon they sound fast and actually even a bit aggressive to my ears.
I'll get my 009S this week. It's gonna be interesting to compare all to each other.
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