Audeze LCD-X Over Ear Open Back Headphone new 2021 version Creator Package with carry case

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Nonetheless, I’m happy to report that the LCD-X 2021 is a totally different headphone when it comes to its midrange performance. But more on that later.

First things first though – the D8000 Pro is better at detail retrieval, it has even better imaging and the overall quality is higher, but you definitely could expect that. The Achilles’ heel of this headphone, if Achilles were made of wrought iron. This pair is heavy, my friends. Majority of the weight is in the plush cups, and due to the suspension strap, the full weight of the cups can sometimes press into your face.Not really a fair comparison, since I own these primarily for gaming. Penrose is good for gaming, LCD-X is far too heavy. On the other hand, for music, Penrose sounds uneven — dark and edgy simultaneously. Truly the Cloud Strife of headphones. The new LCD-X has a brand new transducer (with the Fazor: a wave-guide that sits on top and is part of the transducer) that offers an improved phase response by helping better control the sound wave flow in the headphones and in turn, this gives an improved sense of clarity, separation and imaging over previous Audeze headphones. To clarify, the new transducer has a thinner diaphragm over the LCD-2s, but the LCD-3’s Lotus transducer is the thinnest currently offered.

Gustard DAC-X10 (with a HiFi Tuning internal fuse) connected to a custom solid core silver power cable,I pair the LCD-X with a Fiio M11 and custom balanced 4.4 cable. I have listened to this setup for more than 6 months. When different technologies compete to fulfil the same market niche, it’s not always the best one that wins. VHS conquered Betamax, and Brunel’s broad-gauge railways were torn up to make way for the standard-gauge network. There are many such examples in the world of audio, and, just occasionally, someone comes along and revives a forgotten alternative to the dominant technology to remind us what we’re missing. In this case, that someone is American headphone manufacturers Audeze (pronounced ‘odyssey’), and the technology in question is a planar magnetic driver.