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Joshua Valour

 So you know the excursive force is really felt as a result, and so you know people who are really into planars might prefer. That kind of you know linear planar base. But for me i definitely prefer the engagement factor you get from the um for the punch and slam of the bass of this now moving up into the mid-range. This doesn't follow the contour of the harmon shelf

 There'S only one way to pronounce this and every other pronunciation is incorrect. We'Re gon na take a look at the focal lx. This is a collaboration between focal and drop. This is an over ear, open, back dynamic driver headphone that comes in at around 700

 Now, where this deviates a little bit from the focal clear i find is that the focal clear has a little bit more energy. In the 10, 11 12 k range where the alex does not and in some ways that's better for the elects and in other ways it's better on the clear, so the air. If you really like having a little bit more air and treble extension there, the clear is the one that does that a bit better and if you want something, maybe a little bit more relaxed there um then the alex does that better. But i also did find that you know on the clear that was one of the areas that i did eq down

 I then made a separate custom eq profile that reduced. You know that 200 to 300 hertz range a little bit to make it. So that it was a little bit better, a little more in line and then also it did smooth out a little bit of the trouble there and made it so that that slight aggressiveness or aggressive edge really wasn't bad at all. So um

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 I do have mewling of two here with some vintage tubes on it and it sounds pretty good coming out of that too. So it's picky with the amplifiers - and I think this leads me into my conclusion here. This is a substantially impressive headphone and it's so good. In so many areas that it's nearly impossible for me not to recommend that being said, I don't think that everybody is going to enjoy this headphone, don't think it's going to be for everybody

 You can isolate it quite easily in general, especially when you get into the lower frequencies of the mid-range. It creates a very rich, very inviting sound signature in terms of the vocals. It'S a very good listening environment, I would say so. The dynamics are my only caveat to this headphone and I've been wrapping my head around a way to explain this in a manner that is both complimentary and creates a sense of what exactly to expect with this headphone and real quick

 The tonality is excellent. The the presentation, the detail is just there for the taking and it's incredibly easy to listen to vocals on this headphone. I have no caveats for the vocal tonality or performance. They do have good separation from the background, although not particularly amazing, but it's still very, very separate able it's very

 Similarly, but on a personal note, I think what makes the HD 6xx so special is the roll-off on the treble and the bass where you get. This really centralized very focused, very forward mid-range, and that is not happening on the alexia. Now I think the ILECs is a better headphone for it. I think that the ILECs has better capabilities in terms of treble even better in the mid-range and better in the bass Department by far, but it doesn't have the isolation factor for me that the 6xx has now

Focal Elex Review

 If you were considering these, i would buy these pretty confidently. I don't see anything else on the horizon. I don't know anything else on the horizon under a thousand dollars that i think is going to uh upset these and uh push them down. So i think you're you're good to buy these for a while

 That was something that they actually really missed the mark on on the lcd one, but i think the two classic hits the nail on the head with that 100, and this is kind of the the earliest odyssey in audacity's lineup, the cheapest odyssey in the audience's lineup. That i would highly recommend to get the odyssey sound. The alexa is a little different, not completely different, but a little bit different. This to me sounds independent of their other headphones, but shares some similar characteristics, but is not always representative of their house

 The alexa is a little different, not completely different, but a little bit different. This to me sounds independent of their other headphones, but shares some similar characteristics, but is not always representative of their house. Sound. Normally their house sound is actually a little bit um more clinical than this headphone is, and this headphone is actually a little bit darker than you could expect to be typical of a focal headphone um

 Don'T really wear down with normal use for a long time at least they do sell, of course, replacements for them uh, but it's not really something that you're going to have to worry about as soon as you will at the elects this to me between the two. Just seems like a workhorse, it seems tough, it seems well built, it seems like it could take a beating like it would be, you know, made to be used and abused. It is a plastic housing as opposed to the metal or wood that obviously uses a lot of times, but i believe the outside grilles are metal, a spring steel, headband, steel, yokes and very very thick pads super crazy, thick they're, really nice really comfortable. As far as big heavy headphones go one, this is not the most attractive thing in the world just because of its size, but it's not that bad and the comfort wise for a heavy headphone is actually really good, not quite as good as the elex

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