The Stealth Magnets did things to the sound in exactly the way I have alluded to in the previous revisions of the Arya, Sundara and HE400 Headphones. Cohesion and fluidity are still in the DNA but everything is more tight and forward in the presentation. Most of my music listening is done in rock and metal, which some orchestral and stuff with female focals (like Taylor Swift [I blame my daughter for that one] and Billie Eilish [I blame my late wife for that one. I never mix violin with cello with the HE1000s, Anja Lechner cello has a vast, dense, rich and transparent presentation perfectly layered from other instrument, and this can deliver the vibrant abrasive grunt with long airy release when asked for too. The bass is well controlled and extended but never seems over played, those with a more "electronic" preference in their musical taste may miss the apparent prominence given to this area by other phones but make no mistake it is definitely there.

Lower treble is more abrasive with the Audivina, which will benefit electric guitar presence that is creamier with HE1K but denser and more vibrant in fundamental.Don't misunderstand me - this isn't something like a HD650 in timbre - but the timbre is enjoyable enough that everything else about the headphone outweighs the averageness of it. For 2023, New Stealth Magnets have been implemented into the design, which has increased performance in all areas.

He brought up that there aren't real impressions of the Arya Organic (or any of the Hifiman thousand dollar tier of headphones. Let’s say compared to a HE-6 which is notably more powerful, aggressive and forceful in that regard. HE1K is lusher, offer wider more fowards vocal and mid range instrument presence, this presence is more creamy, less prompt to sibilance or texture dryness. Given that this trickle down tech, first introduced with the Susvara Flagship, I have been expecting this for some time now. Whereas the V2 had a slight sparkle that mostly maintained its balance, the Stealth is definitely overall a step brighter, more forward.It made things like the Edition XS unlistenable for that purpose because it was just so damn sharp and jarring.