I only have the ve monk and snow lotus. They sound virtually identical to me. I would l or the same form factor but with even more wow factor, what should I grab? I’m down to spend. They are so comfortable I end up using them a ton.

Ok, I see. That;s not really a fair comparison then. Wireless headphones don't sound clear in general and the ANC ones are usually tuned for a lot of bass and not much else. So it has nothing to do with driver configuration. $20 Koss heaphones or Truthear earphones will outperform most speakers with their clarity. There's no question about that. The modern tech really sucks when it comes to sound quality.

I think it's a good opportunity to try some wired audiophile headphones or earphones. Stuff like KSC75, SHP9500 or Etymotic earphones. IF you like the sound of your speakers, then these should blow your mind with how much clarity they have for the price.

The headphones in question are sony whxm4s. And the loudspeakers sound much more clear with better bass, mid, and treble.

RTings has devised some kind of "objective" metric of soundstage, you can read about their rationale for it.

Damn what a brilliant collection. Do you listen to each of them regularly?

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Which one out these is your favorite? I personally have the VE monks and oddysey dac

I don't know what you mean by sounding better. Headphones are often overpriced because they're a fashoin accessory, so there's that.

While the xm4s I definitely knew they werent going to be audiophile but being beaten out by some budget car speakers should not be a thing. What I was thinking was doing a 2-3 way headphone driver having the frequencies being split to multi drivers made sense to me. As like others have said, a big cone is going to have a hard time doing highs accurately.

So why do IEMs do it when wouldnt headphones stand to benefit the most from it, being able to have the lows and mids on the woofer and a tweeter to do all the highs?

>Is anything similar available for headphones / speakers which perhaps includes other aspects like soundstage?

No. If there is I haven't seen it.

Personally I find the well established review sites my best source of information (and youtube generally useless)

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Interesting, just was something I noticed that multi driver loudspeakers sounded better than my headphones ive got while being way cheaper. Kinda makes sense, like I could understand being able to hear the music coming from another driver. Thank you for your reply.

Bah, I don't care for the half a dozen BA with like 3 DD setups. But the truthear zero does something genuinely interesting with the woofer that I don't think would be completely unreasonable in a headphone. If anything, the benefits of deeper and more impactful bass make more sense with the increased real estate a headphone can rumble your ears with.

Have you not heard of people hooking up their headphones and having an external subwoofer hooked up as well? It sounds like the people who do that enjoy it. I'm sure it will be jarring, but I don't want to be overly dismissive of something that could genuinely work if properly developed.

And idk, is that idea really any more jarring than Sennheiser imaging being 3 distinct and seperate fields? They're just different flavors of "bad imaging" aren't they? But if it's possible to have a woofer handle the bass, we can get away with some pretty hefty subbass boosts and extension (with impact) without compromising the tuning of the mids and treble.

Do you have the names of the products that tried this before? I can only think of the nuraphone, but I'd love to see what has been tried before.

You've almost sold me on them.

Honestly... I kinda do love these more than my lcd 2's. Way more comfortable anyway and sound is really just incredible to me

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You prefer them over the audeze? And if they sound like the clears I could probably blind buy, but I need to get rid of some.

go zmf, expertly tuned warmish sets

auteur classic looks good.

Want to buy mine?

>Bottom line, the AudioQuest Jitterbug does one only one thing: it filters your bank account, reducing your balance by $60. If anyone can demonstrate that it makes an audible difference in a controlled blind test, I will donate US $600 to the charity of their choosing.

Boom, roasted.

i havent actually visited an a2a store in person! all my headphones have been blind buys. the elegia's are my favourite headphones now, absolutely brilliant. from what i've heard they seem to just be the closed version of the clears