Have you ever heard the OG Utopia? I wonder how you’d like it compared to the 2022 that you tried. It’s a little brighter, so it has more treble sparkle, but still maintains good note weight and lush sound signature. I’ve never felt the need to seek out something else. I’m only curious to try the 2022 for comparison’s sake.
Focal Utopia.
I’ve stopped caring about audio equipment since getting them. To me they sound practically flawless and it’s hard to imagine there being much better.
Bit out of your budget but that's exactly the Focal Utopia OG, very 3D soundstage, great tuning with a hint of warmth, and punch that blows your socks off :) just don't buy it new unless you're rich
Endgame does exist, the LCD5 just wasn't the one for you? I could sell everything I have and be perfectly happy with either my Focal Utopia, DCA Stealth or Susvara, all terrific allrounders that work with any genre
Same with focal Utopia 2022. Makes garbage sound like garbage, but great productions come alive. Def hard to daily them, compared to my comfy and not so picky 6XX hooked up to some vintage tubes
My $4000 Focal Utopia pretty much sounds the same as my $200 Sennheiser 6xx for gaming, footsteps, sound whoring etc. that’s why we have “daily drivers” and “critical listening” categories of headphones.
Gunshots and footsteps aren’t going to sound that much better or clearer on more expensive headphones. Directional audio is mostly software based. I don’t see how a normal stereo headphone can be tuned for gaming, that’s usually a part of the driver/firmware that comes on USB headphones that have their own dac built in.
Personally, I think $200 open back headphones are the best for gaming.
I listen for fun and these are my most favorite headphones ever. I like them better than the HD800S, Arya Stealth, and Focal Utopia (2022).
Just a slight bass shelf and it was perfect.
The stealth is not worse by any means but its just different. The Arya is more open, brighter and the LCD-X is more relaxed but it feels like the music is punching in your face.(Sorry, im bad at describing this). I will never ever sell the Stealth nor LCD-X.
The utopia is great. Maybe even perfect. But absolutely not for that price. There was no "wow" effect compared to LCD-X. And also i dont like the chassis design. They feel premium but idk man. I was listening to them for one hour in a quiet room in France and i was not super impressed, because i was always thinking about the price.
Maybe i like planar bass more? Maybe its the design? I don't know.
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