Headphones like the audeze lcd2 but more lighter??

[JJB70]

If your budget stretches to the PM-1 it is a beautifully made product. In an era where headphones costing four figure sums are common the PM-1 does at least feel its price and offers genuinely outstanding performance. That said, if you can live without the uber premium build then the PM-2 is as near as makes no difference to matching its more expensive brother sonically and still shames most headphones in build quality.

 

[solderdude]

I am not very good at detecting imaging.
Sure I can hear differences like those between HD650 and HD800.
I think most of the Hifimans score about the same in that department.

From the mr Speakers headphones I rather liked the original Ether (despite its shortcomings) and the AEON closed.
Dan's headphones have almost unparalleled comfort to me lightweight, perfect clamping force on the bigger headphones.
The AEON also is decent to good.
I find the ed X a bit on the large side of things.

The HD800 is nicely in between, spacious and not getting 'hot' on the ears and very little clamping force.

 

[rebbiputzmaker]

I’ve had the LCD-X briefly. They were amazing but way too heavy for any kind of prolonged use. Reluctantly I returned them. Shortly thereafter, I tried the Mr Speakers Aeon Flow Open. The Aeons didn’t make me forget about the LCD-X so I went ahead and just got the Isine 10 with cipher cables. These sound great for the price and has the distinctive Audeze sound.

I should add that I also have a pair of Sennheiser HD 700 which I eq extensively. I think they sound great but hard to make dynamic headphones sound like planars.

The isines are amazing imo.

 

[solderdude]

i-sine.. (for those that like plots)

The treble peak is very high up. Those with not so young ears may not be bothered by it.. in fact it may even be beneficial.
The +4dB lower mids hump is audible to me but not detrimental to the sound.

Personally prefer the (somewhat comparable) AEON closed to it though (shown below)

 

[rebbiputzmaker]

i-sine.. (for those that like plots)

The treble peak is very high up. Those with not so young ears may not be bothered by it.. in fact it may even be beneficial.
The +4dB lower mids hump is audible to me but not detrimental to the sound.

Personally prefer the (somewhat comparable) AEON closed to it though (shown below)

They are used with eq. With apple ios there is the cipher cable with built in eq, and there are plugins for other pltforms and a good amount of info for everyone else.

 

[Azeendeen]

I am not very good at detecting imaging.
Sure I can hear differences like those between HD650 and HD800.
I think most of the Hifimans score about the same in that department.

From the mr Speakers headphones I rather liked the original Ether (despite its shortcomings) and the AEON closed.
Dan's headphones have almost unparalleled comfort to me lightweight, perfect clamping force on the bigger headphones.
The AEON also is decent to good.
I find the ed X a bit on the large side of things.

The HD800 is nicely in between, spacious and not getting 'hot' on the ears and very little clamping force.

Thx. I will most likely tell you which headphones I GOT in in like January because lets just say I'm "busy" now . But most likely I will be trying out the Hifiman Ananda, x v2, aeon closed and I'm just gonna try all the the things in my budget so I will also listen to the OPPO pm1 and the focal clear lol. Unfortunately the Mr speaker ether flow both closed and open are not available at my local store to demo