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

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Besides "don't EQ sharp dips in the treble", I don't see what it can tell us or how it correlates to sound quality.

If I worked in a studio, they’d recommend 10 minutes not working with sound every hour to maintain good hearing all day, and I find that I can only work for about an hour to 90 minutes and make accurate decisions anyways.Yet differ they do, and although the EL8s are still very fine headphones, they don’t quite succeed as often or as spectacularly in creating the illusion that there is nothing between the music and the listener. However, just as there are other transducers that can convert sound into electrical energy, so too are there other ways of designing headphones.

Together, these innovations enable audio professionals to efficiently get their mix done right in a variety of settings. However, they simply hug your head and are more pleasing to the touch, while the D8000 Pro has a higher clamping force and their earpads are nowhere as comfy and plush as the ones in LCD-X.The closed-back EL8s offer excellent isolation, and despite their somewhat pinched tonality, retain the core benefits of clean sound and superb transient response. While the LCD-X 2021 sounds soft and very pleasing in the upper frequencies, the HEDDphone is shinier, more forward, and crispier sounding. They were useful well after I had finished a mix to my satisfaction on monitor speakers, or when I would later hear the mastered version. The headphone height adjustment is very solid and can even be locked in place, while the swivel and tilt of the earpieces is at the exact opposite end of the spectrum, entirely smooth and effortless.

Now, the creators edition comes with an “economy case”, instead of plain white cardboard that you’ll find in the LCD2 Classic for example. Two cables are supplied: one terminates in a standard quarter-inch jack and a further optional mini-jack adaptor cable, while the other draws its signal from a full-size four-pin XLR. From the moment you open the rock-solid, industrial-strength moulded ABS carrying case, it’s immediately obvious that the LCD-Xs are no ordinary headphones. VHS conquered Betamax, and Brunel’s broad-gauge railways were torn up to make way for the standard-gauge network.This being the case, it’s perhaps unsurprising that many planar magnetic headphones are open-back designs, as creating a closed-back version involves finding a way of preventing the signal from the back of the diaphragm escaping into free air without allowing it to interfere destructively with the wanted signal from the inside.