Edition XV

I borrowed this pic from another thread, its the FR of the Hifiman Edition XV: The 'squiggly' lines is resonating, right? This is separate from the change in FR from positional variance if I'm correct. Although this is quite an exaggerated, severe case; I'd still like to know what headphone perform

In terms of sound only, I can give my top 5: Focal Utopia - Super dynamic, detailed and exciting sounding, while keeping a decently natural tonal balance. Sennheiser HD 650 - Sounds smooth and natural and lush no matter what track I throw at it. Sennheiser HD 800 S - Very open and detailed with a wa

And I'm running an LCD-2, LCD-X, Edition XV, and the Stealths; the drivers on all of them are going to be just as easy to damage as the Maxwell -- I lost a pair of XS to driver crinkle very shortly after launch, thanks to HiFiMan's wonderful QC. All planars have this issue, by nature. The problem wi

Take this with a grain of salt but the XV are my least favorite Hifiman headphones I tried so far. I started my journey with the edition XS. Literally fell in love with them so amazing after you get a headband. So after a year I thought maybe I'd get an upgrade and I saw the XV and thought why not a

Ok now that I have it I will be subscribing to this for any answers you find. Small sidenote, in the only mention I could find the Ananda Unveiled from their headphones.com website I saw their small note "The Ananda Unveiled follows the same pattern as other “Unveiled” revisions: filling in the 2-3