Well after listening till about 1am here are my impressions so far.
Not analytical whatsoever. If anything voiced slightly romantic but you gotta give these the juice to open up. To get to reference level I have to turn the Lyngdorf to -5 or so. Kind of hard to determine how loud you are listening since it never gets harsh. I wanted to keep cranking it up but got to the point where I went 2 stories up to next to my daughter's bedroom to check the volume. I could here the lyrics. So it was obviously very loud.
SMOOTH to the point of almost liquid but still very detailed. I dont really know audiophile terms but you can walk around the stage on well recorded music. Voices are very very good and there seems to be a bit of lower midrange fullness which is pleasing.
Here's how I would rate the music genres on these.
Metal is ok not great. I haven't tried any well recorded metal yet such as Tool or Opeth.
Anything acoustic is phenomenal.
Well recorded rock is phenominal.
Country and bluegrass is phenominal.
I keep reading the first impression of these is neutral. I dont get that. They seem to be voiced to somehow sound better than reality. I think they walk a line between sounding high fi and natural.
In conclusion I need some more time with them. If I wasn't a metalhead these would be end game for me. I found myself playing all kinds of acoustic rock, Alice in Chains, Nirvana Unplugged, Eric Clapton, Hank3, Hank Jr etc. On my Tektons I gravitate more towards Metallica, Lamb of God, Slayer etc since they have that amazing mid bass punch.
Not analytical whatsoever. If anything voiced slightly romantic but you gotta give these the juice to open up. To get to reference level I have to turn the Lyngdorf to -5 or so. Kind of hard to determine how loud you are listening since it never gets harsh. I wanted to keep cranking it up but got to the point where I went 2 stories up to next to my daughter's bedroom to check the volume. I could here the lyrics. So it was obviously very loud.
SMOOTH to the point of almost liquid but still very detailed. I dont really know audiophile terms but you can walk around the stage on well recorded music. Voices are very very good and there seems to be a bit of lower midrange fullness which is pleasing.
Here's how I would rate the music genres on these.
Metal is ok not great. I haven't tried any well recorded metal yet such as Tool or Opeth.
Anything acoustic is phenomenal.
Well recorded rock is phenominal.
Country and bluegrass is phenominal.
I keep reading the first impression of these is neutral. I dont get that. They seem to be voiced to somehow sound better than reality. I think they walk a line between sounding high fi and natural.
In conclusion I need some more time with them. If I wasn't a metalhead these would be end game for me. I found myself playing all kinds of acoustic rock, Alice in Chains, Nirvana Unplugged, Eric Clapton, Hank3, Hank Jr etc. On my Tektons I gravitate more towards Metallica, Lamb of God, Slayer etc since they have that amazing mid bass punch.