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The Audeze LCD-2 is known for its bass, being one of the largest physical planar driver phones out there. (I should really be talking about the newer LCD-3 but I just don't own one. I am informed the bass is similar.)
In both phones, the LCD-2 and the Hifiman HE-6, the bass is extremely deep and creates a pretty good illusion of the chest-thumping bass you get from speakers. You don't get the chest thump of course, but I'm just saying it's so deep and powerful that you get a physicality from it.
this is remarkable in the Hifiman HE-6 as its driver is considerably smaller than the LCD-2 and not really any larger than most planar magnetic headphones out there.
I'm driving both headphone in balanced mode from my Hifiman EF6. The DAC is a Grace m903. I'm using WyWires Red cables on both headphones.
My previous bass reference was the LCD-2 but I must say now I am very enamored of the HE-6. The primary difference has to do with the "thud" of bass drums. They are much more physical in the HE-6. I'm listening to two recordings right now. One is Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy. The other is Aaron Copland's Rodeo on Argo. And I'm primarily focused on bass drums right now. In Led Zeppelin it's a drum kit bass, and in Copland it's an orchestral bass drum.
I'm also focused on the differentiation between bass drums and other low bass instruments such as the bass guitar in Led Zepplin and the stringed basses in Copland.
The differentiation is slightly better in the HE-6.
The only thing the LCD-2 does better I think is leading edges. The whack is better in the LCD-2. While the "thud" is better in the HE-6.
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Headphone enthusiast.
favorite cables: K Works
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Thanks for the detailed review. One of these days I'm going to buy a basshead headphone and when I do I will be better prepared and more informed than ever.One of the things that keeps me from buying one of the better basshead headphones (such as the HE-6 or the LCD-2) is the fact that they are so physically heavy. Maybe the extra weight helps to provide the foundation for that ooomph you are talking about, I don't know. I'm too used to wearing ultra-light headphones like the Grado RS-1i...
Edits: 04/30/14
Yeah, I'm not even a basshead but I really got into good bass upon hearing the LCD-2 (which is the first one I heard a while back)... I enjoy it both for classical music (where powerful and clear bass defines the foundation of the music, not to mention is exciting in bass drum whacks) and in rock. I don't listen to a lot of rock but I like Led Zeppelin.
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Headphone enthusiast.
favorite cables: K Works
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Happy listening,
Jim
"The passage of my life is measured out in shirts."
- Brian Eno
I love Copland in general. Too bad the Hoe Down from Rodeo got used in the beef commercial. It's a really fun piece but now I can't help but think of the commercial.
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Headphone enthusiast.
favorite cables: K Works
There are a couple of fun covers of Hoedown, one by Emerson Lake and Palmer on the Trilogy album and one by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones on the Outbound album. They'll help you hear it in a new way.
Happy listening,
Jim
"The passage of my life is measured out in shirts."
- Brian Eno
Thanks, I'll check out the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
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Headphone enthusiast.
favorite cables: K Works
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