Sennheiser HD800 & Audeze LCD-2 & Stax SR-407 sound leakage

[alek0204]

play dubstep and your iphone will explode xD

[Satfgk]

@ThePsionicMatrixTM They do have an overly aggressive treble which has to be tamed, then they are nice :)

[ThePsionicMatrixTM]

HD800 FTW? Sexy, advanced technology, reasonably priced (oh well, compared to stax), and sounds perfect !!!

[Satfgk]

@devouringone3 True...

[devouringone3]

Leakage? there's no one wearing the headphone... they can't leak, their already playing back music in the air.

This is more a sensitivity test than anything...

[pumbaa32]

@devouringone3 Leakage might not be the exact term but definitely not a "sensivity test" because they are matched in term of effective volume. Believe it or not, the sound level from both side of the 3 headphones in the video is almost equal. The presence of a dummy head has minimal impact on this matter.

[devouringone3]

@pumbaa32 Oh, yeah, a dummy head! That was the thing I had in mind.

Minimal impact? You have tested open back headphones but with closed back ones and a dummy head there would be almost no leakage (and leakage without it)... and with open back ones there would have been real "sound leakage" leaking out of the headphone. When you capture sound behind one cup like that you capture everything, both headphone, inside and outside sound.

Good thing you have put them all to the same effective volume!

[devouringone3]

@pumbaa32 But you are right, we might not be using the same definitions here... maybe I am talking about sound bleeding.

Anyways, nice headphones, lol :P.

[Satfgk]

@miceblue425 Nah Denons leak more :)

[miceblue425]

Nice video! I would have liked to see the K1000's in there as well.

I think the Beats by Dre Studio headphones win for sound leakage from a closed, ANC headphone. I seriously don't know how that happened and it's pretty pathetic to be honest.

[Satfgk]

@greekpanther1 And in having the most overrated soundstage abilities, IMO.

[eLLi81996]

HD800 rocks :)

[myparrots1]

Nice, hows those Stax tcompare to the other 2

[OriginalMindTrick]

My K1000 will OWN them all in worse leakage.

[pumbaa32]

@OriginalMindTrick But your K1000 might own them all in soundstage too..

[greekpanther1]

@pumbaa32 his k1000 will own them in having the most inaccurate frequency response

[Greenlulz1]

Terrific video btw. I can even hear the differences in signature from each headphone. ;) They are all good, but I can hear the grain in the 800, the crispness and darkness of the LCD-2, and unparallelled detail of the Stax! Thank you for sharing your video!

[pumbaa32]

@Greenlulz1 Thanks, your 009 is so good that you really heard all the differences in sound signature of the 3 headphones in the video. Btw i added names of the songs used in this video in the description. ;)

[Greenlulz1]

Hello Pumba. Would you please tell me what songs these are? 5:19 is Michele Mclaughlin's "I Love You." Would you please share the others? I would like to hear them on my 009.

Thanks Pumba. =-)

[xerx30]

ugly shit bithc shit bitch shit bitch

[SuperWeng10]

its like having a big speaker over your ears!

[curiousgeorgieo]

CPU fin cooler 1:47

[nightowl217]

To have those three headphones sitting in the same room as me would be a privilege.

[mrmadicbm]

Those brown satx are the ugliest headphones I have ever seen, they look like they where from the 1940,s But I know they would sound great as they are the best in the business.

[MrPwnstar007]

god those headphones are so ugly besides the hd800's

[ThePsionicMatrixTM]

HD800

[eiouwa1]

Who's the artist playing at around 5:19?

[pumbaa32]

@eiouwa1 It's Michele McLaughlin :)

[mrmadicbm]

@pumbaa32 which michele mclaughlin song is it please?

[CosmicSage]

@mrmadicbm I Love You.

I think i will use this as a wedding song :)

[mrmadicbm]

@CosmicSage Thanks for the reply.

[Yaumilful]

Audeze LCD-2 is da best

[Satfgk]

Which one do you like best? Love the smooth, liquid sound Stax sound, but also love the masculine, solid sound of the LCD-2 and the soundstage openess/precision of the HD 800. By the way, what music am I hearing throughout the video? :)

[pumbaa32]

@Satfgk I like the HD800s best but only when they are paired with a nice tube amp :)

[Satfgk]

@pumbaa32 What amp are you using?

[Satfgk]

The Stax has less high frequency leakage, correct?

[pumbaa32]

@Satfgk To my ears the Stax leaks as much as the Sennheiser in the high frequency range but in a softer way that it seems to be very less noticable. It's also the nature of electrostatic transducers, the treble can go really high and detailed without being harsh or fatiguing.