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After a week of listening to these, I can easily say these are my favorite set of cans. Perfect for my hiphop & EDM streaming through spotify, great sound stage and clarity for my acoustic and jazz flac files. The low impedance makes these easy to satisfy how power hungry they are, and they sound better the louder you get. They aren't perfect, but they sound amazing and does alot of things really well. I'm selling my $1000 Audeze LCD2's and keeping these for every day listening, highly recommend.
How the Fostex's compare to my other headphones:
Level of bass impact: the thumpy subwoofer feel is there but you need to turn the volume up. the bass guitar sound is clean and defined, not muddy: Bass impact rank: JVC SZ2000 > Fostex TH-x00 > Beyer DT770 > Beats Professional > Audeze LCD2.2 >Beyer DT880 > AKG k7xx
Clarity (staging/vocals/ instrument separation): Amazing staging for a closed back, like the music floats around inside your head. Most closed backs put the sound just in the middle of your head, or just outside your ears. These fill your entire head space, and extend out so you don't hear it stop at the headphone casing. Clarity rank: k7xx > LCD2.2 > DT880 > TH-x00 > DT770 > SZ2000 > Beats
Comfort: Super light, not much padding on the head band, clamping force is tighter than the beyers, earpads on the smaller side and are barely over ear. Not tiring after a day of listening at work, not much listening fatigue. Comfort rank: k7xx > DT880 > DT770 > TH-x00 > Beats > LCD2.2 > SZ2000
Isolation/sound leak: Pretty good isolation, does leak a whisper of sound at high volume levels. Isolation rank: DT770 > SZ2000 > Beats > TH-x00 > dt880 > k7xx > LCD2.2
My DAC/Amps used: ifi micro dsd - I prefer running this amp right now at work due to the bass boost and 3d surround feature that gives it more of an open feel. Tons of power, clean sound, discrete looking.
Benchmark DAC1 - TH-x00 sounded suprer clean and balanced with the DAC1. More than enough juice to get the impact I wanted out of my EDM/hip hop, but then the mids and highs got tiringly lound for my taste. Since I prefer to use a dac/amp to "tune" my bass instead of an EQ, I have leaned towards the ifi over this. For general listening, this dac/amp is amazing.
Fiio e09k/e17 combo - Great bang for the buck. More bass than the ifi and Benchmark, but not as good at staging and clarity.
Fiio e18 - similar to the above combo, a lil less power and less customization. Very plug and play.
May 17, 2016
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subiemarkI would say it leaks a lot! Mine makes basicly no audible difference, when I close earcups with my hands, or I leave them just open.
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