I highly doubt it. Never happened to me, but I do find I need time adjusting back to it if I haven’t listened to it for long, especially when you get so used to a certain sound signature
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You might be under what is known as “psychoacustics” your brain has an automatic equalizer that tries to make sense of sound. Give them some time and you might adjust.
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Totally different drivers as far as I know. The newer current Denon headphones have moved away from the older Denons’ where they were using Fostex OEM drivers. Overall, most accounts I’ve read say TH900 is better/in a higher tier than the D9200.
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Thanks, I figured as much and this is the confirmation
The rest of the headphones are immediately accurate with balanced channels but this one is weird… ill give it more time.
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Wait, if you say the stage is shifted to the right wouldnt that be channel imbalance?
Just for how long has it been this way, has it ever not been this way?
Lcds shift the stage towards you and around you, not really to the side. Still maybe its the presentation that bugs you but im starting to have my doubts
You can use a mono track and look with your eyes exactly in front of you, to figure out if theres channel imbalance, with a mono track everything should be centered properly.
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It was this way when I got it first. But after long burn in it settled to like 90% left 100% right and i got used to it.
Now its 50% left 100% right and its not getting better so far. I don’t think its brain adjustment because its only the lcd24. The lcdx is perfect left right anytime u wear it same with all other hps.
Ill try other amps maybe its how the aic stages with it and will report back.
Im sorry mate but that definitely sounds like channel imbalance, if it is will probably need a service from audeze
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Ok now I really need to know why? Running it from the Rnhp its perfectly balanced L and R. But with Aic the stage is to the right and back, but all HPs are perfect L and R from AIC only the lcd24, but the lcd24 is perfect with Rnhp.
Hmm is it because the stage size or something? Lcd24 is perfect L and R with V550 and Asgard3 too. Same dac and cables.
This has now gone outside of my knowledge, if volume and stage are balanced on every amp but the AIC, as you describe by a lot; but everything else works fine there I wouldnt know what to do.
Personally id try a different cable, and email both AIC and Audeze with the full information you have given us.
There are some decomposed cables and adapters that have done me something similar but in your case it sounds like something else.
Even the vio550 has a balance knob that could be used if the lcd24 were channel imbalanced but that isnt the case.
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This right here. Ive had this happen to me a few times and almost each time it was related to the cable (1/4 inch connector was too long or too short, one of the balanced pins was damaged, etc).
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Agreed, sometimes even turning around a bit the the connector to the input has been enough to fix that issue
There are a lot of possible continuity issues with bad cables/adapters and sometimes they only show in one specific amp
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Sorry to repeat this but I confirmed. Tried diiferent cables, SE, balanced, dacs, channel tests and all. Its only with Aic and lcd24. That tells me the lcd24 is fine no?
The only explanation I can think off is the larger the soundstage the more obvious it is, and it exaggerates how the lcd24 stages the sound.
All you’ve proved without another headphone having the issue, or another amp demonstrating the issue is that there is some incompatibility between the two.
The LCD24 does have very low impedance, and it might be there is some asymmetry in the drivers, the RNHP will be close to 0 output impedance, the AIC will be closer to just under 1 Ohm. Some variation that would be inaudible on say the RNHP but not the AIC.
But it could just as easilly be the AIC.
I think the expanded soundstage having any real impact on it is unlikely unless it’s a very subtle effect, which it doesn’t sound like it is.
I’d also FWIW try a tube swap in the AIC, using one tube like that for both channels means the triodes have to be internally matched, and some are not close, But I’d expect that to affect more than just the LCD24. My intuition. Says it would probably affect more sensitive headphones more.
I guess the last thing to ensure Is that the offset is consistent across very different volume levels on the LCD24, and it’s not just a bad spot on the Pot.
It is extremely odd that it’s just that pair of devices.
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Thanks. It’s across all volume levels. I’ll keep what you said in mind while trying to find the cause.
Anyone had ears on the Heddphone 2? Curious to hear any impressions outside of reviewers.
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I’m pretty curious too, but k don’t think there’s much interest here.
Hopefully someone will eventually post some impressions.
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I’ll compare it to my benchmark Borealis whenever my shop carries a demo unit, until then, all I’ll say is the conditions weren’t ideal, it sounded considerably better than the Hedd v1 at least, which sounded as if it was missing lots of parts of the spectrum (I heard 2 different pairs so I don’t think it’s unit variation) and I did not hear a lack of sub bass extension / treble that some measurements suggest.
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Does anyone have any clue what pair of headphones brad is using in this video?
Looks like Meze Empy. Maybe Elite with another color than the stock silver.
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