Headphones and music have got me through the last 12 months of being an emergency worker. Especially with the gyms closed. I invested in some Audeze LCD-X and they just help me get lost after a stressful day!
They made a 2019 Update as well right? Qc and the headband? I bought my lcd-x in october 2020. With my custom silver cable they have all the highs and clarity they need. I like the dark sound of my lcd-x. Good contrast to my hd 800 😂
You are one of the few you tubers who gave these a decent review! This hobby is so hard to know if you will like a sound until you hear it for yourself (also audio chain matters and can change ones perception of the sound they hear). Crazy great review!
Hi John, Love your work and appreciate your honest an down to earth approach to this audiophile thing. You are kind of getting it from all the relevant angles, giving context to things, taking into account all of us at all different levels (financially and expirience vise). Not much of it (honesty) here on yt… so yeah, you get it… Thank you so much for all the effort! (p.s. there is a typo at the 1:58 mark of this video “rosson rad-0, 66 cm transducer”)
comments are usually turned off on your videos, so I'll take this moment to say keep up the good work. I have really learned a lot and had some fun since finding your channel.
Great review, thanks. I have an Ether 2 and I think it's the most neutral-sounding headphone I have. It's interesting that you find it so comfortable. I also have a Meze Empyrean and I find it much more comfortable, and I slightly prefer the Empyrean's sound too. But the Ether 2 is a close second. I'm tempted by the RAD-O, but I probably won't buy it due to the weight. I have good hi-fi speakers too, including your KEF LS50s, but listen most often on headphones.
Nice choice of track there playing Amorphous Androdgynous , FSOL are a massive inspiration for me played their stuff since i was in school 15 yrs ago. Have you listened to much by Bakground , Etch or Topdown Dialectic?
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2:00 66cm driver... yeah. manthats HUGE XD. anywayjoking aside, idorealize lately that circular planar driver often have this diameter below 70, sundara is 60 too, only one with more unique shapes like he1000's egg are beyond that in size. so inactuality, sony's 70mm has been surpassing them in size for a while huh? SURE OBVIOUSLY, sony's are a DD and not planar, but still, one of the reason they consistently have big/ grand sounding sound sig is that size.
Interestingly it's not just the Germans. Somewhen is a quite a well used Hampshire phrase. I didn't realise other people didn't use it until I was older.
@@shadouxg7150 responding to you @ OP... Now you can buy an Audeze CRBN($4,500) which is less compressed than most, you can also probably for $3k get a used HifimanShangri La jr which is also less compressed than normal for Estats.... for this things price we are looking at H1000se v2.... Arya Stealth with a lot of change for AMP/DAC, you can get a used LCD-4 with warranty and have left over... for the price and the lack of wide soundstage, lack of Audeze tier bass,,,, gotta say buying a used HE-6(original 4 or 6 screw) is probably a better investment
Headphones and music have got me through the last 12 months of being an emergency worker. Especially with the gyms closed. I invested in some Audeze LCD-X and they just help me get lost after a stressful day!
You had picked a good time to buy the LCD-X; they had updated it in Nov 2020 after years of selling an unchanged product.
They made a 2019 Update as well right?
Qc and the headband?
I bought my lcd-x in october 2020.
With my custom silver cable they have all the highs and clarity they need.
I like the dark sound of my lcd-x.
Good contrast to my hd 800 😂
I really appreciate your approach to music, gear and audio philosophy! Top class!
You are one of the few you tubers who gave these a decent review! This hobby is so hard to know if you will like a sound until you hear it for yourself (also audio chain matters and can change ones perception of the sound they hear). Crazy great review!
Hi John,
Love your work and appreciate your honest an down to earth approach to this audiophile thing. You are kind of getting it from all the relevant angles, giving context to things, taking into account all of us at all different levels (financially and expirience vise).
Not much of it (honesty) here on yt… so yeah, you get it…
Thank you so much for all the effort!
(p.s. there is a typo at the 1:58 mark of this video “rosson rad-0, 66 cm transducer”)
comments are usually turned off on your videos, so I'll take this moment to say keep up the good work. I have really learned a lot and had some fun since finding your channel.
Do you prefer any of these 2 headphones over the Meze Empyrean?
Great review, thanks. I have an Ether 2 and I think it's the most neutral-sounding headphone I have. It's interesting that you find it so comfortable. I also have a Meze Empyrean and I find it much more comfortable, and I slightly prefer the Empyrean's sound too. But the Ether 2 is a close second. I'm tempted by the RAD-O, but I probably won't buy it due to the weight. I have good hi-fi speakers too, including your KEF LS50s, but listen most often on headphones.
Nice choice of track there playing Amorphous Androdgynous , FSOL are a massive inspiration for me played their stuff since i was in school 15 yrs ago. Have you listened to much by Bakground , Etch or Topdown Dialectic?
*THIS IS A TEST* -- With this video, we are trialling a new way of doing things: the comments section below has been switched ON but will be *moderated by a third party* who is under strict instruction not to approve racist or sexist remarks, URLs, (the seeds of) conspiracy theories or the unsubstantiated ramblings of grumpy geezers.
If this test goes well, we will consider activating third-party comment moderation on other videos.
The upshot? You have the possibility to leave a comment below the video but I don't get tied up in comment moderation and can stay focussed on making the next video, the next podcast and managing the Darko.Audio website and Patreon.
I am not here. I am elsewhere.
I like the John metaphors above all else.
What's the music at the start?
So many expert considerations...
2:00 66cm driver... yeah. manthats HUGE XD. anywayjoking aside, idorealize lately that circular planar driver often have this diameter below 70, sundara is 60 too, only one with more unique shapes like he1000's egg are beyond that in size. so inactuality, sony's 70mm has been surpassing them in size for a while huh? SURE OBVIOUSLY, sony's are a DD and not planar, but still, one of the reason they consistently have big/ grand sounding sound sig is that size.
I would take it the other way. Nice headphone reconect us with reality. Sound quality is a real thing . In my concern
I had a 7k home stereo then was forced to move into a apartment. I couldn't listen to it. That's why i love nice headphones.
Interestingly it's not just the Germans. Somewhen is a quite a well used Hampshire phrase. I didn't realise other people didn't use it until I was older.
For 3000, one can get a properly amped Stax L700 set. Enough said.
Estas are compressed, if the cable breaks what’s up?
@@shadouxg7150 responding to you @ OP... Now you can buy an Audeze CRBN($4,500) which is less compressed than most, you can also probably for $3k get a used HifimanShangri La jr which is also less compressed than normal for Estats.... for this things price we are looking at H1000se v2.... Arya Stealth with a lot of change for AMP/DAC, you can get a used LCD-4 with warranty and have left over... for the price and the lack of wide soundstage, lack of Audeze tier bass,,,, gotta say buying a used HE-6(original 4 or 6 screw) is probably a better investment
The audio équivalent of a tesla may be a bose conected sound bar.
The lightest vs the heaviest
I felt the weight difference by just looking at them
The ROSSON RAD-0 looks stunning! Shame it's about £2,000 over budget...
You have a negative budget? Unless you meant $. In which case that's $600 which is still awesome.
@@val26874 I think they're about £2600 in the UK. Yeah, 600. I'm still very much undecided though
@@AKelly-wd4lj what are u planning to get?
Made from a liquid wood, huh?