Recently, I replaced the headband and ear pads of the HEDDs. The fit is now perfect. My impressions have therefore changed. With the HDA-5520 mkII, the HEDDs sound wonderfully good. There is more life than with the old headband and earpads. Lots of sense of space, realism, imaging, good...

Well, well... The versatility of this SATRI is surprising (since, at first sight, it doesn't seem to give so much of itself). During the last hours of the afternoon I've been playing with the voltage outputs of the SE300... after reading, albeit diagonally, a review by @GoldenSound about...

Although I haven't done a critical listening of the HEDDs connected to the HDA-5520 mkII enough to do a review.... :wink:, I'm not sure it's the best combination. I would venture to say that it lacks the musicality or fluidity that I find with, for example, the CALDERA, among others. IMHO, of...

The synergy with the CALDERA is very good. Very enjoyable. They don't sound as explosive as with OOR, for example, but it's close enough. The HDA-5520 MKII is very —very— transparent... and does not alter the flavor of the CALDERA at all.

Hahaha... this one won't be going around anymore, though...:wink:

Typically about 30h with the gain switch on.... before it starts to distort (there is no other indicator than this). It is amazing!

This is what arrived a few days ago (spoiler: and stays): And with the EMPYs and LCD-3s (and the satri, with holster): Both headphones transform —yes, just like that-with the HDA-5520 MK2. I don't think I've ever listened to the LCD-3 like I did today with the satri. Not even with...

... and this one.

By the way, a surprising combination. Because of how good it is...

Hahaha, of course !

In a previous post I dared to compare them, since I own (and listen to) both. This was the summary (IMHO, obviously): CHARYBDIS: enormously resolute, without falling into tonal imbalance; details at the tip of the iceberg that, however, are not thrown in your face; they translate dynamic...

I completely agree: EMPYREANs scale enormously with proper amplification. I am referring to the adjustment of the rod. Well, I imagine that the Rinaro driver, when focusing on the bass, demands precisely that: a fine adjustment.

Let's go now with the EMPYs... Let's go now with the EMPYs... I start with a footnote. Of the ones I own, the EMPYREANs are the most difficult headphones to adjust. And not because they are not comfortable with almost any adjustment, but because their "—those low mids a little bit...

During these days I have been listening to the CALDERA's with the stock cables, as I had understood, from what I had read around, that they were more than fine. And they certainly are. I also listened to them with the Meze silver ones... but, at least at the time, I didn't get the feeling that...

I wouldn't go so far as to say that the CHs beat the CALs. They are very different flavors. Technically, CH may be a few rungs higher than CAL. But the CALs have something to love.... (but not only: technically they are also convincing). As some of us here say, when you put them on, you can't...