Thanks Amir. The clipping is unfortunate, and puzzling given the effort put into building a separate power supply. The ‘rumble’ filter is effectively useless, just a very strange design decision.
I've had C200 for a little under 4 week. It sounds fine. The samplerate display is stuck at 44.1kHz, though it plays other samplerates correctly. Even more concerning, after switching from Line out to Headphone out, it sometimes stops playing audio altogether, and some combination of power...
@IAtaman i chose #2 for the same reasons you did: apparently better compliance across broad areas of the spectrum and seemingly lower deviation across the spectrum. Odd that the paper ranks them differently. Does the paper not explain the reasons for that ranking?
Too bad about the pinching! That kind of thing is really annoying. Measurements would be interesting; if I do end up with a pair of the Hi-x60, I’ll submit them for measurements.
@Rayman30 the Noire have caught my eye as well, but I need the ability to use without a headphone amp fairly often, and the Noire’s reputation for being hard to drive has scared me off a little. Interesting to hear you’ve found the Austrians to play in the same league.
I had missed Oratory’s Hi-X60 measurements, thanks for pointing those out. Other than a fixable bump at 6k, they look pretty good. Better than a fair number of other decently well-respected headphones. Distortion is low.
Given that they seem to have a reputation for good build quality, I may...
Given the company’s history I would expect to see fairly regular discussion of their headphones, but they don’t come up much. Strangely, Crinacle hasn’t measured them either. Why don’t they get much attention?
I didn’t realize you had auditioned the S7t. Being able to compare to the Revels must have been quite interesting! Can you share your impressions (or link to your post about it, I couldn’t find it with a quick search)?