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Fearless-Physics OP t1_j2hdqk5 wrote

Reply to comment by The_D0lph1n in What is it with Sennheiser's angled drivers? Do they bring some advantage? by Fearless-Physics

Thank you!

Does it perhaps also depend on the individual using them...?

To give an example, could one person using angled-driver-Sennheisers (or anything else) get the same phenomenon as from those Stax SR-L700mk2, only due to that person's head shape?

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The_D0lph1n t1_j2hf5s4 wrote

Maybe. I didn't notice the weird imaging on the Elex to the extent that my friend did. I also wasn't impressed with the soundstage on the Sennheiser HD800S: it was the widest I'd heard by a small margin, but the increase in frontal depth didn't match the increase in width. I thought that many Hifiman headphones have a better soundstage presentation despite having flat drivers.

One interesting example would be the Ultrasone headphones and their S-Logic system. The drivers are not only angled, but placed lower and fire upwards at the ear. For some people, this produces a much wider soundstage. But other people's ears just don't work with S-Logic, so all they hear is a screechy mess.

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