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TheFrator t1_j1z6njb wrote

Nice! I tried it at Capitol Audiofest the other month but wasn't blown away by it. It was in a noisy environment so I reckon the things that made it special got drowned out by the ambient noise. Also, I believe you can't properly judge a transducer until you've spent at least 3 or 4 hours with it.

  • How does it compare to the LCD-5 you own? And do you EQ?
  • What energizer are you using?

Happy listening!

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MashMayoru OP t1_j1z88dr wrote

KGST for amp, I don't EQ the x9000 nor LCD5.

I think the x9000 is very soft sounding compared to almost everything else and that in particular is not very "blown away" kind of sound, so it's definitely not immediately obvious what it's capable.

Also to some degree it's so natural and laid back that it doesn't sound very impressive just from pure reaction compared to most other flagships that shoves things into your face. And yeah the noisy floor definitely doesn't help either.

I think x9000 vs LCD 5 would be somewhat similar to comparison between it and 1266, so lcd5 being quite a bit more dynamic sounding, but lcd5's soundstage is very small compared to x9k I believe, and imaging while good still sound unnatural. Many things would sound unnatural compared to x9000, but lcd5 does Excel at male vocal imo, and percussive instruments it does really well, but lacks in acoustic instruments and the mids gets pretty shouty sometimes, where x9000 is very neutral instead, and one of the less shouty flagships since things are pushed back a little bit. But at the same time it's definitely more detailed than LCD5

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