What I thought as well but that yoke shape being so square really throwing me off
I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing about Fall Out Boy’s cover of “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. What I get for being curious enough to click on the video. 
7 Likes
bro it’s fucking terrible lol
2 Likes
Got a comparison between both versions of the Tungsten.
6 Likes
Hello, been away from audio with work for 2 months but an update about my lcd24 channel imbalance on the AIC and it was indeed a driver problem.
Sent it to Audeze, they received it in Jan 17th and worked on the driver and I got it back today. Its perfect now 
. They fixed it free of charge being out of warranty and shipped it back for free too, I just paid the one way shipping.
The pads feels new but I’m not sure with thinner leather compared to the thick leather of before if I remember.
Also tried it from the speaker taps of AIC and got a taste of it, so much difference, the sound was way more bold and open, but too noisy like electric noise when music is not playing. Because of the sensitivity I hope and not the taps themselves. Its 15 ohms with 96 sensitivity.
6 Likes
Is there a Planar headphone that is geared towards neutrality, and can be used for mixing and mastering?
I know that studio monitors are better for this task, but a noise complaint is something I’m trying to avoid.
I know there are good dynamic driver headphones that do it fine for a modest price,…but I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the planar imaging among other things
There are two models, have only heard the MM-500 and while not my taste in sound it seemed like a good value.
2 Likes
What about it isn’t your taste? You just like a different sound?
1 Like
This is such a loaded question as it is all preference, and not knowing what your preferences are, and you not knowing my preferences any response will be useless. I should have not added that it was not my taste in sound, however since I did editorialize, here we go:
- I felt they were quite boring, though they are meant to be tuned to be accurate as they are marketed as studio headphones
- Bass was decent but have heard better from other planar headphones and some dynamic drivers
- Sound stage was very one dimensional, and lacked much space
- Lacked a richness that other Audeze cans have, these came across as thin as in lacking tonal weight.
To be fair the only Audeze I like is the LCD-4 which is an outlier from the rest of their line up.
Like I said, this is probably not useful. You asked for a planar that could be used for studio work and this was the most obvious one.
2 Likes
I probably should’ve worded that better, so that’s my bad.
When you said it wasn’t your taste, I wanted to know if it was because you don’t like the neutral sound
OR
that it could be done better
2 Likes
Neutral to me, means a flat frequency response, a straight line. If we assume every component matters, than there is no true neutral, only what each of us perceive as neutral.
To answer your follow-up, I don’t care for neutral or to the right of neutral. I enjoy a tad of warmth with a dynamic and resolute signature. I’ve managed to find this with dynamic driver headphones and class an amps, and r2r DACs which come off as closer to natural than other DAC designs. Off course there are exceptions. It also depends on the music you like, I’m not bout vocals as I’m listening at the instruments more as they blend together into a cacophony of ecstasy,
If you took a W and softened the bottom to be like double U, that’s as close to my preference as I can explain.
3 Likes
I have this type 5 red eucalyptus lawton cups I got for a bargain
Im thinking about getting a denon d9200 because ive heard its better to do it with d7200 and d9200 for this type of lawton.
I dont know if theres any proof lol
6 Likes
Those are beautiful !
3 Likes
I thought this was a little cool “personality test” or “choose your own adventure” type of video. I took their quiz and they recommended me the ZMF Atrium Closed which I already own 
. At least their quiz is kinda spot on.
2 Likes
I even tried messing with it as in chose differently at each step and it STILL picked a headphone I own. Kind of interesting.
3 Likes
So THAT’s why he said he found out there’s a maximum upload limit on youtube of 100 videos per day…
1 Like
They were a lot of choices that leads you to a new video, but a 100 still seemed a lot. I explored some of the budget categories because I was curious on what DMS would recommend and he gives you quite a few choices. Like sometimes they will be 4 choices for you to choose from.
2 Likes
Hello,
these will not fit on the new Denon.
Denon developed the D7/9200 itself, including the driver.
The cups will therefore not fit on the new Denon, only on the old one as well as Fostex and Emu.
As far as I know Lawton doesn’t make cups any more, he supposedly only has leftover stock and is supposed to stop giving life to the Fostex.
1 Like
That is SO weird, are you sure? The cups arent even near the driver, they would have had to modify the cup holder not the drivers
Mochi who is not active and impossible to contact always used to tell me he modified d7200 and d9200, he never specified the mods done though.
He just would say, get a d7200 for the stock cups before getting one to mod, and that modding those because of the drivers sounded better than his modded fostex
Yes, I am sure.
Had the D7200 and tried to mod it myself.
The results were not good.
I found the D7200 was heavy on the bass and liked to bleed into the midrange.
If that had been less, the D7200 wouldn’t have been a bad headphone.
I asked Lawton about cups for the D7200 at the time and he said that the ones they offer don’t fit.
And he couldn’t say whether he makes any for the Denon series, at least that was 3 years ago.
A good friend recently had a Th900 modded by him.
So I learnt that Lawton has probably stopped modding the Fostex and no longer makes cups for it.
Spontaneously and that would be just one attempt I can think of.
I don’t know any results, you could try to make a wooden adapter where you could attach the new driver and the frame of the headphones from the D7200 and additional holes to attach the Lawton cups.
The adapter should be about 3-4 mm thick maybe a bit more.
But it would only be an experiment.
The walnut wood from the D7200 is not an ideal choice in my opinion.
I had a carpenter who wanted to make me some out of rosewood but unfortunately got sick.
1 Like