HiFiMAN Arya Full-size Over Ear Planar Magnetic Audiophile Adjustable Headphone

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HP: HIFIMan HE1000 Stealth - ZMF Verite Closed - ZMF Aeolus - Sennheiser HD600 - HiFiMan Sundara - Audio Technica ATH-R70x - Beyerdynamic TYGR 300R - Sennheiser PXC-550 II - AirPods Pro - AirPods 2. Owned: HiFiMan Arya Stealth - Focal Clear - Focal Celestee - Focal Elegia - Sennheiser HD560S - AKG K361 - Sennheiser IE300 - Moondrop Aria - Focal Listen - Koss Porta Pro. That means higher pitching notes have a slightly bright overtone but that never seems to translate to an overly thin or sibilant quality through the raised upper mids. Synergy with sources both in terms of tonal bias and output power can calm it down or amplify it. Timbre For gaming, there’s enough body and presence to sound great in action scenes. Hiding out from tanks in Battlefield 2042 was thrilling. While the pads feel comfortable and the foam padding is sufficient, again, I am a bit disappointed with the choice of materials. Even a lifestyle headphone that costs a fraction of the Arya uses real leather or sheepskin cover. Fortunately, the pads are replaceable. There are better aftermarket ear pads that use real leather or better materials, like earpads from Dekoni. But that would entail additional cost.

While it’s reasonable to believe that the Arya are tuned close to neutral, they do not sound “neutral” in any way, with power and presence across the whole reproduction frequency spectrum. There’s nothing really new with the design of the Arya Stealth, and the metal and high grade plastic built headphone features the typical shape of earcups and headband as we have seen many times before. For those with the Edition XS thinking is it worth the upgrade then yes, it is on a different level. They share the same broad house tuning but you hear a lot more information and delicate cues with the Arya Stealth driver.Arya Stealth Magnets Version Planar Magnetic Headphones, by HiFiMan. The 2021 version of the classic Arya Over-Ear Headphones. The clamping is just right also on the Arya Stealth. Not too much like the LCD-5 can get for my head and not too loose either that it hands uncomfortably on your ears.

Maybe I have a very strange taste but to this date, I thought the every single of them were really bad. I am told that the magnet array is not asymmetrical in alignment does it deploy large and small magnets contrary to the original Arya driver construction. That makes it more or less the same design principle as the Susvara internals. Mostly edm/electronica and will also be pairing it with the chord qutest in the near future. I main the DT 1990 and plan to get the meze 109 pro's soon. I just want a planar headphone to complement those. Others will resent that some portion of what they are paying is for those things. Others may conclude that what is saved means that more is invested into R&D and material costs, or perhaps, company profits. Your priorities, your values, your choice. In the box Stealth Magnet technology improves upon earlier magnet designs by reducing interference beyond a point that wasn’t thought possible only a few years ago.I wanted to share some impressions of the Arya Stealth compared to the Arya V2. I owned the V2 for about 8 months before I sold it for the HD800s in November this year. This comparison is from memory (not very reliable) but here are my impressions: For noggins too small to qualify for the BHC, the Arya may be too large. For those with S or XS brain cages, these will likely not be a good match for you. The object in the picture is larger than it appears. Yeah, that's exactly what I say in my coming HE1000 Stealth first impressions: the Arya Stealth is warmer, more "musical" and intimate. An image that is very clear in my mind from when I was A/Bing them was with Elgar's Op 85 cello concert: I listened first with the HE1000 and every instrument was very precisely placed, all was incredible clear and crisp: there was zero perception of missing clarity or imaging.