>>106033923
>Kind of sucks theres no where i can test electrostats before buying
Stax has so very few dealers outside Japan, it's insane. Where I live it's like 2 stores in the entire country lmao. And there are so very few other good electrostat models.
>Koss ESP950/X
Garbage build quality(no dust cover=quick death) and pretty weird tuning.
>DCA Corina
Pretty good but also very expensive
>Audeze CRBN
Discontinued, expensive and the second version is worse.
>they essentially sabotaged the 8xx release instead of doing the 650/6xx path
I fully believe Senn tuned these like shit on purpose so their own version sells more after seeing HD6XX sales.
>Shit past the 1k tier is so insanely depressing
True. Most stuff is either dogshit sold at a premium(Abyss) or comically overpriced.
>>106034012
Either get new pads that are smaller or just use EQ and apply a low shelf filter
>>106034028
If you don't mind heavy then Maxwell is fine. It's marketed as le gamer but it's an actual good headphone. S5 should be fine too and uses drivers based on LCD-1 so it's still Audeze, kind of.
>I’ve demoed the LCD-2 and LCD-X, X was pretty decent but I didn’t like the 2
Audeze genuinely cannot tune their headphones. They get better with EQ but I couldn't stand the weight of the 2.