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keyboard_arrow_downmonolith
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Jun 4, 2024
How has the headphone placement affected your listening? Does it drastically change tuning?
Evshrug
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Jun 5, 2024
monolithBackwards is bad 😂
It does change flavor a fair bit depending on placement, but to simplify basically you can add more or less bass. You’ll find your fav position, and then it’ll become second nature to position it that way pretty quickly.
mattris
1301
May 10, 2024
Thank you for the photos, Evshrug. Are the earpads detachable? If so, could you please include some photos that show how the earpads attach to the headphones?
mattris
1301
May 23, 2024
Could you snap a few photos showing the removeable the earpads and headband? Please and thank you!
Theroc
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May 9, 2024
@Evshrug
If I replace my ESP/95X with Dekoni leather pads with the OAE1, will I regret it?
You won't answer dumb questions, you say?
OK, OK, I'll take a nuanced comparison.
Evshrug
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May 9, 2024
TherocLOL
Well, Estats have a very different presentation, and different connection requirements.
Estat's strengths are in their hyper low distortion highs, so if you love that it may be hard to get again. You might also love leather pads more than velour; while I love the heat and sweat free velour of the OAE1, I know that the pads are essential to the sound performance and I think leather pads on the OAE1 would make a pretty significant sonic change.
The OAE1 will be easier to connect to things and you'll have more options for amplifier upgrades. I'm having fun just using the review loaner with an Apogee Groove USB Dongle plugged straight into my iPad Air... that's an older dongle, but it uses current mode amplification and also in other ways it ought to have similarities to the modern (and smaller) Questyle M15 USB dongle, so it's easier to transport the OAE1 between work and home. In fact, I did that a few times, blew away some people's minds at my eyeglasses store haha! I can also just plug the OAE1 straight into my Steam Deck OLED; it has enough sensitivity to be driven by almost anything. The OAE1 is also kind of a bass monster, like I've heard headphones with more but this is a very fun headphone, carries a lot of emotional gravitas and sometimes its almost like I can feel the bass on my chest or something. Continuing the psychoacoustics, I also get ASMR-like spine tingling sensations occasionally from different tracks... that's something that doesn't happen for me very often, joining just 3 other headphones that hit the timbre just right to tickle my nervous system. Last major difference, but not least: those angled drivers! Yeah, a lot of the timbre hitting just right is owed to that driver angle, and no it doesn't enable any sort of crossfeed on it's own or true In-Front-Localization on it's own... but it's amazing at presenting Spatial Audio in a realistic way, so I have my surround sound gaming.
I never got to own the Koss electrostats, though I enjoyed borrowing Dekoni's for a couple weeks. Right now I'm reaching for the OAE1 whenever I have the option (and using ANC headphones inside the lab at work)
Theroc
2336
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May 9, 2024
EvshrugIf the 95X has too much of anything it's probably treble. But its only an issue when its coming from an artist's voice I don't particularly like. No one is going to accuse the ESP/95X of being a bass monster, but it's not a weakling. You don't feel it in your chest but its more than adequate.
I should disclose that I pass everything through Dolby Atmos Dynamic EQ, without it it's more of a "what bass?" situation.
The one thing I like the most about the 95X is resolution. That's the one thing I wouldn't want to give up. It's ability to separate... for instance I was just listening to "That's Not My Name" by The Ting Tings and I could clearly hear every word of the background vocals. Distinctly.
For the first year I owned them, I had an I-didn't-know-that-sound-was-in-there moment every day.
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