Fantastic entry to the hobby. I still miss my pair sometimes but LCD-X replaced everything else.

Audeze LCD-X, Dunu SA6 Ultra, and Apple APP. All I really ever need, thinking about selling the rest of my collection or gifting them to my friends because the lower end stuff doesn't really get used any more and none of my auditioning since has brought me anything I like better than the LCD-X.

It’s not unlistenable like some people say. Not bad with electronic music at all but I only had about 15 minutes with it.

Definitely a little wonky in the tuning but far from the worst I’ve tried, dare I say I enjoyed it as it retained most of the great subjective qualities of the 800 at the cost of tuning. It’s a great headphone if you don’t mind some EQ.

Literally the reason I’m eventually going to get the JDS Element.

I’ve never even touched high gain on my Atom.

Those are some bass shelves my man. My bass shelf on my LCD-X is 3db for preference and I perceive maybe 1db shelf as neutral so yeah you like it bassy or like the other dude said you could have some hearing loss there.

It probably isn’t a seal issue but give it a try without glasses on.

I think my collection went:

Tin T2 > KZ ZS7 > KZ ZS10 Pro > Blon Bl-03 > Sony MH-755 > CCA CRA > CCA CRA+ > 7hz Dioko > Moondrop Chu > Etymotic ER3SE > Dunu SA6 Ultra

Took a big break in buying IEMs for a while between the 755 and CRA though because headphones lol.

My LCD-X gives me a dirty look every time I do my daily Focal Clear search on headphones.com haha.

It's only a matter of time for me.

Another great analogy with the visual one! That does make a lot of sense and I 100% agree with the assessment. Yeah the trailing tones getting overpowered seems to be my experience with peaky FRs as well.

I do also enjoy an airy treble subjectively and it is so incredibly hard to find a treble that sounds just right to me. Using the Dioko for example, very airy extended treble and it is detailed, but at certain points I do hear some obscuring of other treble details.

Thanks lots for the info!

That statement about the balance of frequency ranges vs simply boosting treble for detail is very interesting.

Using my Takstar Pro 82 as an example, these have an elevated and very peaky treble, they have a very zingy and sparkly treble that I perceived as very detailed back a few years ago when I was pretty new to the hobby, but it's so all over the place in the balance that it's the perfect example of "fake" detail in my collection nowadays.

Compared to my LCD-X and 400SE for example, which have a much lower overall level but smoother treble, the detail is not even close even though the Pro 82 has that zingy quality to it, it just sounds "wrong" and that fr range balance sounds like it could be a big contributor.

imo the detail aspect is very competitive and the way the sound is crammed into your ears like summer said is a big part of that. That being said, they can't match high end headphones in other technicalities like dynamics, soundstage, etc in a lot of cases.

The portability, light weight, and sound isolation is a big plus though. I love how I can bring my IEMs everywhere and get so much performance out of such a convenient form factor.

It's a different type of listening experience though so I enjoy it equally as much and increasingly more as I get more IEMs.

None of my current IEMs really get close to my LCD-X in terms of sound quality but I'll reevaluate this when my SA6 Ultra arrives.

For the overall listening experience speakers really can’t be beat. The bass hitting your body and the physical enveloping feel of vocals and the way treble is presented is second to none for home audio.

What keeps me loving headphones is being able to more easily be able to distinguish microdetails and how the sounds are presented in a surround sort of stage around my head.

I also find the whole hobby of headphones a lot more interesting as there are so many different things that go into it such as different target curves and innovations.

I’m sure there are innovations in the speaker world, but I assume all that is in the more expensive than I can fathom area of the hobby.

I hope to eventually just have one great pair of end game speakers/sub and my headphone/iem collection. I love it all.