Audiophilepure

Compared to other closed-back planar headphones that I have on hand like the Dan Clark Audio Aeon 2 Noire, the Stealth, and the Meze Lyric, the HIFIMAN Audivina headphones paint a more expansive sonic picture. Not quite as diffuse (which may not be the best word) as a proper open-back set of headphones, but noticeably bigger than closed. The closed-back headphones I mentioned above are some of my favorites of the breed and don’t sound overly closed-in by any means, but with each one of them, I can tell that there is a rough spatial limit to how big or wide the music gets when I listen. It’s not something that became readily apparent until I compared each of them directly with the Audivina, which exceeds all of them on that one characteristic. If you are a classical music lover, I think you will be particularly impressed with how the Audivina headphones reproduce everything from a smaller chamber ensemble to a full-on orchestra. The added dimension that these headphones imbue on the music makes it seem more like you are listening to good, capable speakers as opposed to headphones.

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