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.

Speakers and headphones simultaneously