Audiophilepure

The default smooth and rich presentation of the DX9 Discrete found a welcome home with brighter headphones such as the NOIRE XO and the Composer. Whilst DSP could bring some vocal presence to the Utopia 2022 (Airy), or a thicker presentation to the Nur Harmonia (Warm).

Typically, I state a preference, but in this case, given the very different FR’s of each headphone, I honestly could not say this type of headphone works better than the others.

If I were nitpicking, I would have preferred a bit more staging depth from the Harmonia, and it’s not as revealing as I would like it to be with the Utopia 2022.