CHARACTERISTICS • pleasant, spacious, detailed, soft, but not a bit blurry, addictive • beautifully noble highs, concrete and clean bass, drawing mids into the space • high resolution on the front/rear axis, perfectly arched stereo image • in everything very similar to the sound of our Focal Twin6 mastering monitors • the S4X was already excellent, but the S5X are much further • an interesting comparison with the Austrian Hi-X65, which has become a complete revolution for many sound engineers and listeners: • from the space you have a very similar experience with the S5X as with the X65 • but what is important is that the S5X are much fuller and richer, wider, warmer • the bass and lower mids are beautifully warm, specific and close • whether we look for our reference when listening as we want, everything is great in the mids, we did not find a single complaint ! USES • ideal for long undisturbed listening sessions and many hours of work • thanks to their very spatial, rather soft and offset sound, they work as one of the few excellent ones for mixing and mastering • subjectively, we liked working at medium to higher volumes • spectrally, they have a center of gravity slightly more in the lower mids than the higher mids • also there is more bass than treble, but it's totally fine • the bass goes extremely deep by the way • the model is specially tuned to convert the immersion mix between binaural and speaker setup • the drivers are directed towards the ear canal at an angle , thereby supporting the placement of objects in space • compared to the similarly popular Audio-technica ATH-R70X, the S5X are much sexier and with more colorful highs, but they are also exactly 2x as heavy and you know about them in your head (whereas with the R70X you can really forget and feeling like you're listening to boxes) • The S5X wins with much better isolation from noise (to you and from you), because they are a semi-open concept EQUIPMENT • the ear cups are pleasant, breathable, replaceable • the headphones are fully rotatable and movable • they hold very well on the head • mounting mechanism and head bridge are completely metal and seem completely indestructible • carrying case, 2m cable, enclosed certificate and measurements DATA • drivers are 5 cm and hand-picked and matched to each other with an accuracy of +/-1 dB, which helps stereo delivery and the separation of tools on the front-rear axis • with an impedance of 50 ohm, you are safe with any mobile phone or cheap sound system • the ends of the cable are color-coded so you don't have to keep looking for which one is left and right • weight 420g • factory production in Slovenia, EU