Audeze LCD-X - Music Creator Special - Planar Magnetic Headphones (Lambskin Leather)

Headphones With Outstanding Depth & Clarity

Before buying these, I had the opportunity to listen to them, other Audeze headphones, and some high-end headphones at the B&H store on 9th Ave. I strongly recommend doing this if you can. The sales assistant was a pleasure, a man who enthusiastically enjoyed his work, as he led me through a educational tour of headphones from $1K to +$3K. He convinced me once and for all of the advantages of open back headphones, which is not what I was initiall... Show Morey going to buy. These headphones are a delight, and well worth their price. Bass is thumping, clear, crisp, and deep, vocals are precise, rounded, and well defined, the highs are pinpoints beautifully separated, without ringing, sibilence, hissing, or clashing. The sound stage is perfect, wide, but not artificially too wide. Compared to the Audio Technica M50x, these headphone are as revealing, but more musical. There is a limit to how long I can listen to the M50x. So far I havent found a limit with these. Like the M50, the LCD-X requires a good source, because youre going to hear everything thats there, as well as everything that isnt. I am using a Hiby R6 to listen to MP3s and .WAV files, and a Roland R7 to listen to some orchestral works recorded in Hi Res. with excellent results. One complaint, despite what is advertised, these headphones do not come with a 1/4 to 1/8 adapter. Make sure to order one at the same time.Show Less

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