I confirm. The Immanis handles transients in a lightning fast, effortless mode, like nothing else I have experienced except for the Aperio and the SR1. How much you may want to leverage on this capability - and more generally on the utter purity of the I. - is up to the rest of your system, and...

I had the X9000 and Immanis for a couple of weeks, I provided some brief comparative notes here. The X9000 was driven by the SRM-700S, and I am aware that there are significantly better options. However, the other time I tried the X9000 recently was with a Viva STX and my overall grasp of the...

The Immanis leak significantly more sound than all other headphones I had. Much more than the Valkyria and the AB-1266, to name the latest ones I owned. As for suspension of disbelief induced by spatial cues. The Immanis may be 90% of a SR1b with wide open earpieces (say 30° or more). The last...

Weight is more about static properties, density of tone. Bass effects in electronica, massed double bass passages from big orchestral forces are examples of this. Slam involves mainly transient response, and the ability to convey a high amount of bass energy (moving a lot of air) in a small...

The Immanis bass is deep, clean, articulate and tight. It extends down to the bottom octave nicely, and with the help of some EQ - which these headphones accept extremely well - it can be brought to downright bass-head skull-rattling territory. Double bass, electric bass, percussions have a...

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Most of my collection is 16/44, and being an avid user of streaming services the majority of my listeing is with PCM material. That said, I have several DSD albums as well, and I especially like HDDT remasters https://www.highdeftapetransfers.ca/. This album below (HDTT DSD256) is one of the...

I was a little bit concerned that the Immanis would be very good 'only' at the genres where my Valkyria are already great, like classical and jazz, with the addition of electronica where the 3-ribbon immediately showed up their talents as well (crazy detail, 3D effects, bass quantity and...

Thank you! The Horizon has been the single piece of electronics with the most striking impact on the sound of my system along my audiophile journey to date. It went beyond what I expected - and my expectations were quite high. The most apparent trait of this DAC is how full, organic and...

Just started revisiting the Valkyria after the arrival of the Horizon. Or, rediscovering them again? Their raw and visceral take, their forceful portrayal of the Masculine in music are now conveyed with a novel sense of continuous flow. Almost a touch of romance I have yet to decide whether...

Thanks! These DACs are musical instruments, really. Some tube rolling will be unavoidable in the future (temptation is too strong, although the H. sounds so marvelous already), but I hope I will not make it an addiction ;-)

Thanks! It sounds nice, it sings to the heart ;-) The electronics on top shelf is a tube DAC, the Horizon from Lampizator (Poland). The amp sits on 2nd tier, it's a AIC-10, a hybrid design from Riviera (Italy). And a quick update shot after some fine tuning on the DAC (Omicron isolation...

DAC changes potentially have a way broader and more audible effect than rolling the AIC-10 tube. Changing the Riviera tube is very noticeable as well, but not as transformative. Still, it allows a degree of freedom for optimization of the synergy, very welcome and easy when one owns multiple cans.

So the partnership between the Immanis and the Horizon DAC turned to be - in my system - all I hoped for, and more, to the point that I feel a whole new stage of my audio journey has unfolded. Due to this, I find it sensible to expand my feedback so far by putting into perspective how the...

Binaural recordings on the Immanis are totally exhilarating. As a fellow Valkyria owner, you should have access to some of Andrea's own binaural recordings and the spookiness of most of them is to be heard to be believed. A great collection is this one, and the first song (Stompin' at the...

I confirm Aperio has the closest sound signature to Immanis from my experience. Very technical, unbelievably fast and resolving, yet still musical and complete When I had my private audition of the Aperio (only 6 hours unfortunately) I tried them paired by an Aurender W20 SE server. On that...

Wow, my two favorite headphones and headphones designers in a single shot, sweet! :)

Lots of highly deserved praise from Singapore, well done @Aleksandar R. !

When I owned the Susvara, I drove them out of the speakers taps of my AIC-10. In the same period, I tried it on several amplifiers (mostly speaker amps), ranging from high-end 300B to high-powered solid state ones (some are listed here, plus many others followed), with consistent results. Out of...

LOL I have bigger projects than that about tube rolling, but I am not in a hurry. In its stock form the Horizon is already providing a major sound change (for the better) that I want to taste for a little while before taking the next step :) It has been this one with the Immanis. Chills all...

Just arrived :wink:

The tonality of the Immanis is - to my ears - neutral / cool. The midrange and treble are crisp, sparkling, with a substantial amount of treble energy. The bass foundation is substantial as well, although very tight, which provides a balancing act to what otherwise would have been an overly lean...