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Does Amir enjoy the Stealth more than abyss tc or diana ?
Does Amir enjoy the Stealth more than abyss tc or diana ?
This doesn’t mean a thing, other than to demonstrate the extreme unreliability of subjective impressions.
Does Amir enjoy the Stealth more than abyss tc or diana ?
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ds/abyss-diana-v2-2nd-review-headphone.23639/Does Amir enjoy the Stealth more than abyss tc or diana ?
But it should be easy recognizable when you directly compare two headphone, for example if you compare the Stealth to the king of all punch (that is how I interpret "Macrodynamics"), the Focal Clear.
Edit: But I think there is also a big prejudice about slam and planars and Dan Clark planars in particular, that one can be easily influenced by psychology.
This doesn’t mean a thing, other than to demonstrate the extreme unreliability of subjective impressions.
I certainly know a lot of people who think of it like that. I remember Tyll referred to this quality as 'punchiness'. Most modern planars don't do that well for it, but there are examples that really demonstrate this quality. Specifically, the original HE-6 (not the SE versions), is one of the best for this - so it IS doable. The HE-6 is also one of the prime examples of why this quality doesn't appear to be correlated with measured bass response. We've tested this at length, and... the on-head response doesn't incur the driver resonance with a leak or anything like that. So at the moment it's more correlated with certain attributes than actual measured results.Do you mean with Macrodynamics what I would call slam/punch?
drivers with good slam having high resonance frequency, in contrast to what you're saying high resonance frequency correlated with the lack of slam.
Obviously big speaker drivers and planar headphones are different worlds. But if I'm not mistaken Thiele & Small still applies to planar drivers?
I have an XC and Aeon RT. XC is clean as a sunny day and the Aeon RT rocks out the bass.I have a pair of ether flow open and I used to own the he1000. Both planar headphones needed bass boost eq in my book. Also both have noticeable distortion.
The only headphones I’ve heard that can take lots of bass boost are the denon D9200. Haven’t heard the abyss though.
We really need more impressions of others!
I usually measure headphones before listening but this time I was first asked how it sounded so I decided to listen. That was a mistake as I could not stop listening to them to do the measurements!
The key here is that good dynamic can easily be explained by good bass level and extension. It also implies good clean sound when driven to high level.
However lack of macrodynamics cannot be explained from the measurements. If it's dynamic then it's dynamic. What the heck is macro and micro dynamics. These words are not the same words that can be correlated to measurements.