Audeze LCD-R

[M0N]

@Draaly

Lol, I just won’t even ask why you had two. I gotta say though, the 428 has me kinda tempted by a 394 given the similar voicing.

It’s totally worth lol

@Draaly

So esentialy the comment I was given on bartok HP amp vs aic-10 for 1266 was “aic is much smoother and fixes the 1266 vocal recess but bass imaging seems a hair fuzzier”

Gotcha, well then I think I answered that with the above

@Draaly

That makes sense. How do you feel it seemingly stacks up if yoy don’t limit yourself to the jot? That’s more of what I’m currioys about tbh.

I think it can scale with equal ability to the first set of aforementioned cans then, and scale about as far as they can, perhaps slightly not as far as the dv2 or the adx5k, but about as far as the hek v2 and ps2000e imo. Which is a bargain if the lcd r was sold as a 2k headphone with no jot. But I haven’t had the chance to try it on the more 1-2k headphone amps so I can’t really give a decisive answer there, more speculation.

@M0N

Hmmm, if you assume it’s locked to the jot a with a 1-1.5k ish dac, I’d rate it on a similar tier of something like a diana v2, hek v2, adx5k, and ps2000e if you assume the traditional headphones are limited to the quality of a 2-3k ish stack. If you go higher source gear wise for the traditional headphones they start to pull ahead and the jot a starts to show it’s limitations if that makes sense, but it’s not totally embarrassed imo.

I should have also added that it compares favorably as I could see myself considering it over some of the aforementioned depending on my goals and it offers better value than some of the options too