Nice review and very helpful- thank you. I am in the market for a closed back headphone for late night listening. I'd be driving them from my Luxman L-509X integrated amps headphone output. These are very high on my list.
they sound warm and pinpoint image focus is wow .. good layering transient and body are well reproduced they sound like the ndh 20s should sound like u dont want them as ur only, add an arya or hd 600 or sundara.. BOY are HD600 good headphones😉 (message)
Could you drop a vid on the maxwells with Dolby atmos tuning? I just got my max wells and looking for a good tuning for them. I already used your Audeze hub tuning and just wanted to see if Dolby atmos would adjust my sound to be any better.
The Atmos EQ tuning makes the sound worse to me. I would enable Dolby Atmos for the Gaming Preset (with no EQ), that way you can benefit from the spatial audio, but use the Audeze HQ app for EQ tuning
Fan of the Focal sound but not a fan of the headband, causes too many hotspots on my head, I have a ZMF cover with padding and it makes it soooo comfy. I have a Focal Clear OG and I have been looking at a close back companion in either the Elegia and Celeste. Audioning them soon. Have you the ability to try them on tubes (I have tried xDuoo MT-602, MT-604, TA-22, TA-26, Schiit Vali2++, Valhalla)? They scale so well and I find tubes temper the high end nicely.
I'm about to buy a pair of gaming headphones and watched almost all of your reviews, you helped me out so so much! Thank you Do you think, around the 200$ price mark, the best headphone would still be the Turtle Beach Gen 2 Max to this day?
Ok. This is it. IMO. The Stellia is no where near as good as my closed back Audeze LCD- XC. Definitely, right, wrong Initially, yes, 5 different pairs of ears compared the two though a £5K headphone amp , both balanced and unbalanced. It was unanimous. Then I burned them in for over 250 hours, and reviewed again. My four pairs of ears ( one pair belonged to me), were astounded ( no, just surprised), at the difference. All said the Stella's were better ( but the improvement was less discerning).So money was not a wasted and I dont get neckache . Suggest a good burn-in before judgement.
I have my Elegia that I bought now that the price has dropped, the Stellia are sooooo far out of my budget, maybe one day. I have about 5 pairs of mid-range headphones, and now they just collect dust because the Elegia give everyone a kick in every aspect, very happy with my choice and no, because now I can't find something cheap that sounds at least into something better than the Elegia :/ haha. Congratulations on the collaboration and don't stop reviewing gamer headphones please, there are really few, not to mention no youtubers who review gamer headphones as complete as you. Well now yes, see you in the next video!.
Please review the Sony MDR-MV1 if you get your hands on them! I tested like 12 studio headphones in a store, including beyerdynamics, sennheisers etc but came home with a pair of the Sonys to my surprise! They simply sounded the best to my ears!
The Stellia is amazing. I found the Elegia too flat. I tried for three months to like that headphone as a great value. I found the Elex during a Drop sale and I find it to be Focal headphones best value, but I still desire a Utopia. Maybe someday. Great video. Thanks.
Nice B-roll. Great video!
Thank you!
The Stellia looks awesome! Great review as per usual Joe🎉keep the grind going!!
Add this to the list of things I want but will never have. Boosty boost comment anyways for quality of review and congrats on channel growth :)
Thank you!
Thorough and excellent review
I’ve just ordered it. Best closed back out at the moment IMO and with a £600 trade in offer starting Monday in my price range (just 😄)
So hyped for this video and the Focal partnership! Great work!
Thanks! I am as well haha. It’s been great so far.
Nice review and very helpful- thank you. I am in the market for a closed back headphone for late night listening. I'd be driving them from my Luxman L-509X integrated amps headphone output. These are very high on my list.
Ohhh this is something else.
The dream would be if I could buy it at a tenth of that price. Wow.
Unlikely, very unlikely. lol
I can still dream tho.
they sound warm and pinpoint image focus is wow .. good layering
transient and body are well reproduced
they sound like the ndh 20s should sound like
u dont want them as ur only, add an arya or hd 600 or sundara..
BOY are HD600 good headphones😉 (message)
in your opinion. are these headphones the best closed backs?
Could you drop a vid on the maxwells with Dolby atmos tuning? I just got my max wells and looking for a good tuning for them. I already used your Audeze hub tuning and just wanted to see if Dolby atmos would adjust my sound to be any better.
The Atmos EQ tuning makes the sound worse to me. I would enable Dolby Atmos for the Gaming Preset (with no EQ), that way you can benefit from the spatial audio, but use the Audeze HQ app for EQ tuning
Fan of the Focal sound but not a fan of the headband, causes too many hotspots on my head, I have a ZMF cover with padding and it makes it soooo comfy. I have a Focal Clear OG and I have been looking at a close back companion in either the Elegia and Celeste. Audioning them soon.
Have you the ability to try them on tubes (I have tried xDuoo MT-602, MT-604, TA-22, TA-26, Schiit Vali2++, Valhalla)? They scale so well and I find tubes temper the high end nicely.
What do you think of these versus the utopia?
I'm about to buy a pair of gaming headphones and watched almost all of your reviews, you helped me out so so much! Thank you
Do you think, around the 200$ price mark, the best headphone would still be the Turtle Beach Gen 2 Max to this day?
This or Verite Closed?
both are great but VC is more amp picky
Ok. This is it. IMO. The Stellia is no where near as good as my closed back Audeze LCD- XC. Definitely, right, wrong Initially, yes, 5 different pairs of ears compared the two though a £5K headphone amp , both balanced and unbalanced. It was unanimous. Then I burned them in for over 250 hours, and reviewed again. My four pairs of ears ( one pair belonged to me), were astounded ( no, just surprised), at the difference. All said the Stella's were better ( but the improvement was less discerning).So money was not a
wasted and I dont get neckache . Suggest a good burn-in before judgement.
dude you 4 pairs of ears are deaf, Audeze XC is far behind competition
I have my Elegia that I bought now that the price has dropped, the Stellia are sooooo far out of my budget, maybe one day. I have about 5 pairs of mid-range headphones, and now they just collect dust because the Elegia give everyone a kick in every aspect, very happy with my choice and no, because now I can't find something cheap that sounds at least into something better than the Elegia :/ haha. Congratulations on the collaboration and don't stop reviewing gamer headphones please, there are really few, not to mention no youtubers who review gamer headphones as complete as you. Well now yes, see you in the next video!.
Congratulations on the collab 🎉
Please review the Sony MDR-MV1 if you get your hands on them! I tested like 12 studio headphones in a store, including beyerdynamics, sennheisers etc but came home with a pair of the Sonys to my surprise! They simply sounded the best to my ears!
Thx for your amazing work !
Anytime, thanks for the support!
I want to try the Clear MG.
Also that headphone stand looks 10x better than from Focal and it is half the price. Perfect fit for Stellia or Utopia
I know this is stupid. But I absolutely hate the brown color scheme. I’m just here swishing for a miracle 2023 update in another color way. Lol
It’s not stupid at all!!! I’d pay a little more for an exposed carbon version similar to the Utopia for this
The Stellia is amazing. I found the Elegia too flat. I tried for three months to like that headphone as a great value. I found the Elex during a Drop sale and I find it to be Focal headphones best value, but I still desire a Utopia. Maybe someday. Great video. Thanks.
Thanks so much! The Stellia just sounds so right. It's so clean, yet still has a great punch and depth to it. Such an incredible headphone.