Audio-Technica ATH-W1000X headphones test

Wooden elements can be found in the design of many headphones belonging to different price categories, and with different sound quality. But if you see the Audio-Technica logo on the “wooden” headphones, you can be sure

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you’re looking at a high-end product.

Cups made of wood

This Japanese company uses wood only in the design of the cups of high-quality and expensive headphones. Of course, the wood for this purpose is chosen in the most elegant way. As for its acoustic properties – they are also taken into account, although the main emphasis in terms of acoustic damping Audio-Technica makes on the material placed inside the cups.

“Wooden” headphones Audio-Technica ATH-W1000X inspire respect just by its appearance. Looking at their shiny lacquered cups and the overall sleek design, hardly anyone would think that these “beauties” can produce bad sound.

Ergonomics

Thanks to the closed acoustic design Audio-Technica ATH-W1000X, provide not very strong, but more than enough for home conditions, isolation from external noise.

The fit of the headphones is very light and comfortable. They are lightweight and have low clamping force – no sudden movements are best. Audio-Technica ATH-W1000X cushions are made of soft leather. They are not deep but they are comfortable.

Sound

The sound of Audio-Technica ATH-W1000x is a kind of “hodgepodge” of taste characteristics. Here you have an “elevated” mid-bass, which adds power and pressure, and a slight dip in the upper midrange, making the sound more voluminous, and an increased amount of high frequencies, which boosts the quiet details of phonograms, as well as creates the effect of width, airiness sound.

With all this, the headphones “manage” to play naturally – realistically reproduce the timbre of voices and live instruments. In addition, they boast a very decent resolution, play very intelligibly, and in the small nuances present to the listener sound of each instrument.

“Rocked” in this sense, only the low-frequency range: the bass in Audio-Technica ATH-W1000x somewhat floppy for full, legible reproduction of fast passages of the bass drum, which are one of the “chips” “heavy metal,” he lacks speed. Though, its lack is felt even on more calm and “sedate” musical material, but it does not play a critical role in its reproduction.

Special mention should be made of the treble lift of the Audio-Technica ATH-W1000x. In many other headphones, the high-frequency lift leads to excessive harshness, “roughness” of sound on certain songs. In the Audio-Technica ATH-W1000x it was possible to avoid it almost completely – apparently, due to the lifting of the “right” part of the high-frequency range. Yes, on some songs in Audio-Technica ATH-W1000x “slips” a sharp high-frequency notes, but it does not happen as often as in most other “bright” headphones.

Summarizing everything said above, we can conclude: Audio-Technica ATH-W1000x – headphones with an interesting and distinctive sound that combines a whole “assortment” of flavors, but at the same time, natural, and almost universal.