The highs are very clean and detailed and smooth. Mids are very clear and natural, no bass bleeding into them. You feel the double bass strings rather than just hear them. Now I would describe the bass as big, hard hitting, tight and you feel it rather than just hear it.
After a few days it felt a little too heavy and at this point I bought the Meze Silver upgrade cable. The soundstage wasn’t as big but felt spacious. The first time I listened to the Empyrean, it felt rich, full with plenty of detail but not as obvious or in your face as the HD800S.
I found it could be improved with EQ but that this in itself could unbalance other areas. Soundstage was impressive but something was missing. When I first heard the HD800s, I felt the bass was ok but there was an emphasis on detail in the high-mids to highs. It might not be the in your face detail of other TOTL headphones but it just does everything very well rather than a couple of things amazing and others areas not so good. I uses to have a system that was less obliging of poor recordings - but in the end i couldn’t live with it - as I was finding I was only selecting recordings that I knew would sound good on my system!!! Talk about tail wagging the In short, I don’t have to EQ the Empyrean at all… Empyrean + Silver cable = very real, full natural detailed presentation that doesn’t leave you feeling it’s missing out on anything. There are so many fantastic recordings out there to enjoy - and many are not good quality - to me it would be a travesty to have a system that didn’t let you enjoy these recordings. Then I really would try different headphones or trying eq’ ing away the hot spot with the 800s (I have done something similar with my Sennies) where it deviates significantly from Harman curve. I couldn’t really tolerate poor recordings with a TT2/HD800S” “On the issue of “enjoyment”, my experience is different.
If a device doesn’t exhibit this - and most noticeable on compressed recordings - then the recording can sound flat and lifeless where your brain has to work harder to make sense of it. You are not embarrassing yourself - for me musical means that reproduced audio flows and times like a piece of music - i guess technically it has good timing/low slew across the audio bandwidth, and is reproducing dynamics across the bandwidth - especially when compressed so you can feel the musical timing and rhythm - and phrasing or riffs and your brain decodes this without working too hard.
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