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” You’d get really bad compression effects. With the LCD-2, the rooms were completely open in the back. This eliminated the compound pressurization effects which wreaked havoc especially on the XC’s treble and presence region. The famously chewy Audeze midband overloaded in fully balanced mode when the backs of its diaphragms closed off. Gobs of image density are all well and good but as with anything else, overdone is overdone. Balance and moderation remain key. With the LCD-2, dual mono just pushed the envelope of chocolately richness whilst still closing it off for safe delivery. With the LCD-XC, the envelope bust open for a right mess. In the treble and with my Polish hybrid silver/copper wires, the LCD-2 gained unexpected but well-appreciated energy in mono mode. With the XC, this overstepped into sizzly bright bite and weird careening glintiness which were instantly off-putting and disqualifying. Unexpected but again well appreciated, Audeze’s (in)famous bassiness did not go overboard but tightened the reins. This eliminated their elephantine aspects and stepped back into feeling properly awesome. Whether a pure copper leash on the XC might have ameliorated some of my complaints I can’t know. Let’s simply eliminate the XC from the running for being clearly not synergistic. Let’s say just a bit more on the successful half of my ‘fully balanced’ Audeze experiment.”

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