Folks, I've placed an order for these extraordinary closed-back planar-magnetic driver headphones, a novel and patented "world's first" design, engineered with a carefully tuned metamaterial chamber to equalize and shape the drivers' frequency response to correlate superbly in the amplitude domain to the Harman Curve. Its group delay / impulse response is also stellar, given the relative absence of internal cavity resonances. Astonishingly, even at 111dB SPL, its distortion is between 0.1 - 0.2% (from 100Hz upwards), and at 94dB SPL, THD at 2kHz is below 0.01%.
For many of us who have been chasing the proverbial never-ending asymptotic endgame system, for merely US$4k (plus associated source and amplification components), the Stealth is a way to cheat your way into hearing a "perfect" reproduction of music from 30Hz - 10kHz (implied from its frequency response measurements), with the advantageous absence of huge bass (and room) anomalies present in the vast majority of listening rooms, but of course mostly devoid of the spatial and tactile qualities unique to two-channel stereo.
A cheesy analogy, but the Stealth promises to deliver 16K resolution "sound" for US$4k.
Delivery will be within a month's time (to Singapore) - I'm psyched ! My current (and only other) headphone is the US$3k Meze Empyrean, which may be looking for a new home... well, let's see. In any case, both headphones are *merely* the price of a single high-end AC power cable in the crazily expensive two-channel high end audio world, so the value proposition is extremely compelling.
Manufacturer's website page URL:
Dan Clark Audio Stealth Planar Closed-Back Headphones
Audio Science Review's Amir (who's hard to impress) giggles with delight and gushes his praises:
HeadFi's Jude is declares the Stealth to be at the top of the heap:
For many of us who have been chasing the proverbial never-ending asymptotic endgame system, for merely US$4k (plus associated source and amplification components), the Stealth is a way to cheat your way into hearing a "perfect" reproduction of music from 30Hz - 10kHz (implied from its frequency response measurements), with the advantageous absence of huge bass (and room) anomalies present in the vast majority of listening rooms, but of course mostly devoid of the spatial and tactile qualities unique to two-channel stereo.
A cheesy analogy, but the Stealth promises to deliver 16K resolution "sound" for US$4k.
Delivery will be within a month's time (to Singapore) - I'm psyched ! My current (and only other) headphone is the US$3k Meze Empyrean, which may be looking for a new home... well, let's see. In any case, both headphones are *merely* the price of a single high-end AC power cable in the crazily expensive two-channel high end audio world, so the value proposition is extremely compelling.
Manufacturer's website page URL:
Dan Clark Audio Stealth Planar Closed-Back Headphones
Audio Science Review's Amir (who's hard to impress) giggles with delight and gushes his praises:
HeadFi's Jude is declares the Stealth to be at the top of the heap:
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