The first song I listened to was Radiohead’s “Lotus Flower,” and I began hearing small little details in the percussion and background of the track that I had never noticed before.
I then took a tour through my music library, and it felt like I was hearing some of the songs for the first time again. It can’t be understated how immersive these headphones are — outside sound is isolated, and every element of the track comes through in perfect stereo.
Every detail comes through crystal-clear — the bass doesn’t get muddied, the highs aren’t lost, and the mids are perfect.
Next, I tried a website that conducts headphone tests (for details like highs/lows, sense of space. etc…) and one element of the test meant demonstrating the headphones’ ability to produce 3D sound. But when the website produced a heavy-sounding knock on a door through my left ear, it actually made me jump up and look to my left.
Finally, I queued up “Alma,” by Jonny Greenwood, from the soundtrack of the recent film "Phantom Thread." The lows of the piano and highs of the strings sounded crystal clear, and I swore I could hear the individual keys being pressed. Later on, I gave Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” a listen. Eventually I realized I was zoning out — these headphones make it so easy to pay attention to each instrument in a song that it’s likely you’ll get lost trying to analyze it all.