DO NOT overspend on amps and dacs. Spending more than 100 bux for 560s is completely pointless. If anyone says otherwise they are coping on their pointless purchase.

Will do, thanks! I'll probably get a longer cable as well. Something like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08D8XGLDL/

Not worth the price, i might sell it soon, the sound is okay but the headband and earpads not that good, i have to spend sometimes to adjust everytime i put it on while on sundara pretty much clicked with a bit of wiggle. Sundara still sound lot better, with a bit of bass boost.

If you like Fiio, they released several new products in past couple of months. Sort it by Newest on Amazon.

K7

BTR7

Q7

How does soulless sound?

Oh yeah! If you want to take the comfort to another level check out Dekoni nuggets( they are on Amazon) for the headband and it makes it much better

Same, man. They say once you upgrade, the old shit is basically obsolete. I stay cheap :/

>Soundstage, detail, imaging, dynamics, transients; what do they actually mean? Again, no solid definition, and again, people perceive these differently.

yes but those are the things that I cannot tune myself, so those are the things I am most interested in.

If I buy new headphones and it has too much bass for my liking, I can lower the bass with EQ, problem solved. If I buy new headphones with bad imaging or soundstage then tough luck, I'm stuck with that.

and frequency response is just as subjective as any other metric. I know reviewers don't base their opinions entirely on the graph, but it's what they show and what they explain "sound quality" with.

They really are. I was worried they would be too big since I don't have a large head but they're actually really comfortable.

That's good to hear. I have no problem driving them to volume levels too high for my comfort.

Boring and soulless tbh

And yes the headphones are out of this world awesome!

Actually my old headphones are M50 not M50x.

I have a Hifiman XS as well. I have tried the headphones on the JDS atom+ stack and a stack with the THX 887 balanced and SU9 dac, a much better stack, and they didn’t scale too much more. You should be happy with what you have.

Yes and you can also get the at staxheadphones.com which is the brand itself.

Wider soundstage doesn't help. You just train your reflexes to the narrower soundstage and 99% of it is game sense anyway. You know the options for where enemies could be coming from. You don't need to know within a fraction of an arc degree. They are either coming from the opening to the left of you in front or to the right etc....

It is important because it is the (one of) the only objective metric with which one can evaluate headphones.

If you look at forums, reviews, videos, etc, you quickly realize how everyone likes different things. Worse is that people often hear the same gear differently as well. For example, you might like that "wild looking graph" headphone, but someone else might dislike it.

Soundstage, detail, imaging, dynamics, transients; what do they actually mean? Again, no solid definition, and again, people perceive these differently.

It all comes down to having at least one thing that is objective and (mostly) consistent across every reviewer. And most reviewers dont base their opinions just on the graphs, i have not seen one reputable reviewer do as such. They still rely on their hearing for those mysterious technicalities.

based

There's way more non measurement reviews of audio equipment out there than with measurements. Maybe IEM reviews are the exception.

edit: I know this sub doesn't like audiosciencereview but this video on frequency response and psychoacoustics is good, if a bit dense

Wow I'm impressed.

Not only a stax that isn't butt ugly, it's actually quite handsome!

I love the look and build of these.

Deal breaker

Ok, thanks so much!

Man I really want to get a Qudelix but before that I will have to check if my phone can run the Hexas well without it.. There's next to no reason for me to spend so much money aside from the nice features. But it looks very nice.

The ear pads should be replaceable, but I don't own these headphones (sound isn't for me) so I have never looked into it. That's an area for Google to help you. The top headband padding is another area that will degrade, so look into that as well.

anyone know how these compare to the HE 1? if the HE 1 was a 100/100 and the HD6XX was a 0/100, what score would these have?