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The Audiophile USB Cable Surprise: Wireworld Starlight Red vs Chord USB Silver Plus

Hello guys,

This post is about USB cables and the surprise they gave me in the last few days.

Remember when I told you I had the Wireworld Starlight Red and it didn’ t seem to make that much of a difference? Well…I must come back to what I have said and contradict myself, as I really found some interesting stuff last week.

Before getting to my findings, I must say that this hobby really got me…

Hi All,

Being that Audeze are one of my favourite headphone brands as well as one of my most popular with their excellent LCD-2's and LCD-3's it is really exciting news that they are just about to extend their range of high end headphones with 2 more models, the LCD-X and LCD-X.

The LCD-XC being quite an interesting addition as it is the brands first closed back design, making it the first Planar Magnetic Headphone that is closed back, that I am aware of anyway.

Both the LCD-X and LCD-XC feature new driver designs called Fazor Technology which uses a thinner and lighter membrane which should produce a faster and more insightful presentation, they will certainly be fascinating to listen to once released.

They both look extremely stylish I have to say, with the LCD-X finished in anodized aluminium in gun-metal gray in black lambskin and the LCD-XC finished in black lambskin, gun metal gray aluminium enclosure with a choice of 4 wood cups, Iroki, Walnut, Purple Hear, Bubinga, please see pic below.

Prices and availability are yet to be confirmed but it does look like both new models will be released over the next few weeks and with pricing nearer to the LCD-3's than the LCD-2. I will try and find out some more information today and update when I have some firm details, personally I can't wait to get these in to listen to, hopefully we will have them here for our headphone open day on November 16th, I will be announcing more details on this shortly as we are going to have some great offers on the day.

I have now put the new Audeze's on our website if you'd like to look at the spec in more depth - 

http://hifilounge.co.uk/audeze

Here are a few pictures -

Audeze LCD-X

Audeze LCD-XC

Cheers,

This is just a quick post to let everyone know that we have just added the Audeze LCD-3's to our line up in the headphone room for permanent demo.

I have always wanted to spend some time listening to the LCD-3's after being won over our LCD-2's and after borrowing a pair of LCD-3's from Audeze for a customer to listen to I think it is fair to say that I have now been ruined and there was just no way I could send them back, so we now have both the Audeze LCD-2's and LCD-3's on demonstration with a selection of high end amps and a top quality sources so you can really hear them at their best and what they have to offer.

I had always read that the gap between the LCD-2's and LCD-3's was quite small with a little more top end detail, generally it was said that they were about 10% better for twice the price, well I have to say that is absolute rubbish, with the LCD-3's you do get more detail but what really struck me was how rich, full and organic the sound was, extremely lifelike. I spoke to Audeze and apparently early LCD-3's weren't quite at the level they are now as they are now using a thinner membrane making the difference between the 2's and 3's far wider.

This isn't to take anything away from the LCD-2's, they are still one of my favourite headphones, but the LCD-3's are very special indeed, tonality they rival speakers that cost £10,000+ and for what you loose in scale with a speaker you more than make up for with detail and intimacy.

If anyone would like to pop in and spend some time going through some of the best headphones available today then please feel free to pop in, spend as much time as you like, and I'll supply as much tea and coffee as you can drink :-)

Here are a few pictures of the LCD-3's -

The LCD-2 is the state of the art Planar Magnetic Headphone from audeze Inc. Every component of the LCD-2 is precision engineered with one goal in mind: Recreate the sound exactly like the artist intended. LCD-2 combines leading edge technology and development with knowledge, feedback and suggestions from an on-going dialogue with Sound Engineers and Audiophiles.  They are designed with pure audio reproduction in mind, and with their thin film diaphragms, push-pull neodymium magnetic structure, Carribean Rosewood oldies, and the lambskin leather sloped earpads.   These high-end headphones might be a little expensive (USD $945), but they won't dissappoint you and they are so worth it!

source:  audeze

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