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Arya Stealth and Oval Pads (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by flesh-salesman@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community

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Hey guys,

Had a really sad day in my HP journey when I returned my favorite cans -- the Arya Stealths. You see, I couldn't get rid of inner ear discomfort after like 5-10 minutes of use, even at lowest volume, and even EQ'd, despite everything I tried.

To isolate whether it was pads or sound, I wore the pads without sound and it felt fine. Shortly after putting some music on -- in any genre, even at low levels, boom, I felt the discomfort in both ears. And what a shame, because they sounded so unbelievably perfect to me -- airy, wide soundstage, great tonality, just beautiful...

I found a thread by u/Sproketz who described the same thing. He ported bass-holes into the pads to relieve low-freq pressure and it worked for him. Sadly, it did not resolve the issue for me, although it did seem to help a bit.

I'm now debating whether I will have this issue with all oval-shaped planars. Currently debating ordering either the Arya Organics or the HE1000SE. Worth a shot or hopeless?

For reference, I own Focal Elexes, Sundaras, Audeze LCD-X, etc, and none of them have ever given me issues.

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[–] Coalbus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I think I had the same thing with the Arya Stealths. While playing music there was something that just did not feel right at all and after a while I’d have ringing in my ears. I had to return them which was a shame because I liked them otherwise.

For what it’s worth, this problem is completely gone for me in the Arya Organics. They are currently my favorite headphones, by far. I have a lot of hours of head time with the Organics now and a large portion of that is listening to metal of various sub-genres. If I was gonna get ear ringing or discomfort with these, it’d have happened by now. And it hasn’t.