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The Headphone Viking

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Re: LCD-X Measurements, Review, Stream of Consciousness Post
« Reply #60 on: January 30, 2015, 06:47:48 AM »

Well, I've had my LCD-X now for some months (coming up on half a year I think) and I do like some things about it as is obvious by me still having it, but it is far from perfect and I do catch myself considering selling it... But anyway, the impressions of it are generally that the tonality is brilliant, but I would often like a fuller sound, more bottom on it, though it is not as lacking as the LCD-3 in this regard. Likely this is more up to its increased impact than tonality. The biggest bone I have to pick with it is probably a lack of resolution and that it does seem to require a fairly loud volume level for the drivers to perform their best.
The volume level was too high for one of my friends and below this level it gets too dark and closed sounding. Mind you my reference when it comes to resolution is the HD800. But honestly, considering the LCD-X costs twice as much as the HD800 here, I think it is a "fair" comparison... To be honest, on all technical levels the LCD-X is greatly inferior to the HD800, but its sound signature is more to my taste a lot of the time.
Now I have the HD800 for really detailed acoustic music and progressive metal/death metal, the Fostex TH600 for the heavy rumble of electronic/ambient, and the LCD X for things in between like Jazz-Metal, Djent etc. But if Audeze and Sennheiser or Beyerdynamic even, worked together to make a headphone it might in my eyes be the perfect headphone!
My conclusion is to be honest that at new price, to my eyes, the LCD-X from a "subjective" or "scientific" standpoint is abysmal value compared to things like HD800, HE-6 or T1, but from a more subjective view it is a taste of something better that just isnt quite there, but the best we have got at the moment with that signature.

Oh, and I'm an absolute sucker for the build quality and heft of it, though I must admit it quite uncomfortable over time compared to my other two cans, though definitely not unwearable if you shift it a bit every once in a while...
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Re: LCD-X Measurements, Review, Stream of Consciousness Post
« Reply #61 on: March 10, 2015, 06:30:23 PM »

Just got a pair of these in the office today. I previously spent a short while with them at a meet about a year ago and thought they were pretty okay at the time.

Opinion is more favorable now. Sound signature-wise at first listen, they remind me of an open TH900 with a little less bass slam and less recessed in the mid range (both good points IMO). More fatiguing in the treble. Listening through Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American and it's pretty solid.

Comfort's good, still kinda on the heavy side of headphones. Hard to forget I have these on the head, but I might just be a wimp.

Oops, setup as follows:

X-Sabre -> Ragnarok balanced -> LCD-X

Edit: We also received an LCD-2, just gave it a listen on the same setup. Damn, I don't remember the LCD-2 sounding this good. Handed them off to Will who said much the same. Not sure if we got a great pair or if this is the norm now.   
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Re: LCD-X Measurements, Review, Stream of Consciousness Post
« Reply #62 on: March 10, 2015, 07:16:48 PM »

Edit: We also received an LCD-2, just gave it a listen on the same setup. Damn, I don't remember the LCD-2 sounding this good. Handed them off to Will who said much the same. Not sure if we got a great pair or if this is the norm now.   

Frame of reference. A lot of the newer FOTM phones just don't sound as good as some prior flagships. Usually only evident in direct A/B.

I had the same experience hearing the 560 for the first time and how much more I enjoyed many of the improvements over the 500 (using Fang's demo gear). Then I put on the the HE6 just to be sure and said to myself, "oh....right, not quite." Even though the tone and signature is starkly different between the two, the technical differences in capability were obvious.
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