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I'm not being combative, I want to be educated on why CFA products are superior. All I see when I read this description of Lyra II is a single driver surrounded by really fancy materials that I interpret to convince audio enthusiasts that they must be top notch because the housing and driver assembly is made with an unpopular alloy.
My ATH's deliver incredible punch and and clear frequencies up to 40kHz (albeit with intervention from my DAC's equalizer to boost the highs). Am I to believe that Lyra II is able to give me a superior audio experience using a single driver at 3x the cost just because the materials used come from space?!?
I consent that number of drivers/BA's does not equal superior performance. Help a fellow lover of audio out!
I think there may be a bit of 'snobbery' and a bit of a pissing contest when it comes to BAs, particularly multi-driver BAs. Perhaps similar to people thinking planar or electrostatic cans are always better than dynamic cans simply because they're "hip" technologies.
A lot of BA drivers themselves are off-the-shelf units made by the likes of Knowles that anybody could buy. BAs also have very non-linear impedance (especially 3+ driver units) which make them VERY pissy to use with certain sources - typically, anything with 3+ drivers used with a DAP with >2.5 ohms output impedance is going to sound pretty bad. The Andromeda sounded underwhelming off my phone, and the SE846 sounded damn awful. Through a Fiio E12A with an 0.3 ohm output impedance, it's a different story. Even single-driver BAs have this issue, although not to that extreme.
So, I ask - why do dynamic drivers have to be cheap?
And thanks @thefitz for the info on BA impedance, I was not aware of that issue. I'll have to pay attention to that with my higher output impedance players.