Additionally, I felt significant improvement in bass compared to using headphones alone. However, I was losing some details as I turned the speakers up, which is strange because usually, loudness means more details. Fascinating, isn't it? Also, as I turned the speakers up, it felt as if the music was moving out of my head and into the space around me (and vice versa). When I turned the speakers up, it felt as if my headphones were being muted (and vice versa).

I played around with both knobs (actually three knobs, because the energizer is stupidly designed) and realized an interesting effects: I took my headphones off and realized what had happened. I was fascinated by the drastic improvement in soundstage, instrument separation and dynamics. I started the music and the soundstage blew me away. Life-changing incident: One time, I forgot to turn the amp off before listening on my headphones.

Also, their energizer has only one RCA input, which is problematic for me because I frequently switch between my DAC and my turntable's preamp, so I got a passive switch box and some splitter cables to distribute the signal to both my speaker amp and the energizer. However, I was used to the enormous soundstage of the K701's, so sometimes I feel like the instruments are squeezed a bit too tight together on the ESP/95x's. They sound absolutely amazing on their own-I love the airiness of the highs, the clarity of the upper-mid and the pristine details. TL DR: Played music through speakers and headphones at the same time discovered that doing this yields soundstage and details that neither the speakers nor the headphones can produce alone.Ĭontext: Recently, I purchased a pair of ESP/95x's.

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