You will touch the inside slightly, there won't be pressure on your ears but you will still touch it.

HarmonicDyne Zeus Review: Thunderous Warmth - In-Ear Fidelity

Sennheiser HD650 and lower tired headphones like Meze 99 Classics didn’t stand a chance and sounded smoother, muddier, with a layer of information being wiped clean from existence. Unlike cutting tape seams on a cardboard box, unsnapping the buckles on the hard case and lifting the lid never fails to impress. More than anything else, a headphone needs to able to properly present the kind of colouration it’s aiming for, so a V-shaped headphone needs to execute a good V-shape, a bright headphone needs to execute a good bright tuning, so on and so forth.From its design, the Zeus Elite might not seem like much, but the cables that it comes packaged with really help give you that premium value, and you can use them with more headphones as well. The Phoenix has a warm tonality but it sounds noticeably brighter than the Zeus because of its boosted upper midrange.

HarmonicDyne Zeus Review | Yes, No, Maybe? - Prime Audio Reviews HarmonicDyne Zeus Review | Yes, No, Maybe? - Prime Audio Reviews

For example, the top of the headband seems to be a textured plastic emulating vinyl faux leather, which reminds me of the inside of my economy car.Paired with what appear to be the same soft, deep, “nanometer suede” ear pads that debuted on the Zeus, the Poseidon can be worn very comfortably for hours. Although excessive ringing behind the driver will go outside, increasing the sensation of a breathable sound, Zeus isn’t entirely a very open sounding headphone and reminds a lot more about semi-open headphones like Ollo’s S4X Reference. The Poseidon are both punchier and airier while maintaining that deliciously smooth character delivered by the Zeus.

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Zeus Elite Sound Taking the pads off is easy and reveals the driver, where the dome seems to be made out of some biomaterial.So while you get an incredibly deep rumble in tracks like Burial’s Archangel, instruments like the bass guitar in Yes’s Roundabout can get vague and lumbering. The issue I’ve always had with the V-shape tuning is that the transition between bass and midrange can create an incoherent or disjointed, and that problem is present to an extent with the Zeus Elite.

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These sounded decent out of my smartphone, but of course far from excellent, they sounded better out of a Surface 7 Pro and considerably better out of dedicated portable audio devices that I’m testing of late. Anyone who likes a warmer tonality , a sweet sound, and enough detail retrieval to be able to see into the music.See, every Gear is its own universe, its own "thing", its own "sound", so, a real reviewer (me) will review it based on its' own voice, and not based on "does it sound like the last one". Would be moreso but the strap is metal and the cups are dense wood which all adds up to a touch of weight. If HarmonicDyne was trying to make a good first impression with Zeus, they really outdid themselves. HarmonicDyne Zeus Elite promises class-leading performance with its newly-developed 50mm dynamic driver unit. These worked well with smooth and relaxed music also, but their fate is about offering a high engagement factor to the masses.