Linsoul HarmonicDyne x Z Reviews Eris: Wired Over Ear Headphones, 50mm Dynamic Driver Gaming Headphones, Semi-Closed for Bass Enthusiasts, Gaming, Audiophile, Balanced Cable, Glass-Back

DESIGN 9/10 For me… the Eris is great looking. Im a big fan of the sleek black and purple color scheme with the glass detailing on the ear cups and headband. The comfort is top notch. A lot of the reviews talked about how they are extremely comfortable, I totally agree. The soft pads and easy clamp force is ideal for me with my medium sized head. I don’t foresee any issues with long listening sessions with the Eris. I like the little detail on the metal part of the bands which include a serial number. The included cables are exceptional, very high quality and the best I have received in-box with any headphones I have purchased. The braided cable style just has a cool factor that you don’t see too often unless you're in the audiophile sphere. Two minor issues with design; first being how prominent the logos are on each earcup. Far from a deal breaker but it feels slightly overbearing. I would love to see Zeos release custom stickers he has mentioned or perhaps someone in the community can make/sell some cool designs. Definitely prefer the headphone function versus the nit-picking of the logos. Not sure if it falls under a design issue but I would have liked to see an adapter for the 4.4mm cable to 3.5mm to be included in the box. Just makes life a little bit easier, though I am looking forward to trying out the full power of the balanced 4.4mm into a amp that accepts it. SOUND 9/10 The Eris is the best of both worlds for me as if my DT 900 Pro X and Crushers had a headphone child. I get the clarity and airiness of the DT 900 Pro X and some of the bass hit from the Crushers. The bass hits hard enough where I know it is there and can feel it, but it does not distort the detail. The mids and treble are more than acceptable, I don’t get the complaints by some reviewers that the mids are lost. By far the best in your face bass on any headphones I have tried that don’t have haptics. I tested the Eris with two hours of music ranging from rock/ metal to rap and songs with high vocals. The Eris handled them exceptionally. I put some time in gaming with Helldivers 2, Control, and the Witcher 3. Couldn’t ask for a better pair of headphones for games. Good positioning, good soundstage, just a solid set for any game I threw at it. I used an adapter to plug into my PS5 controller to rock some Spiderman. It didn’t have the same depth as it did as to when I used the K5 Pro, but it still sounded very good, better than my Razer BlackShark V2 pro by far. If you watch any of Zeos' reviews, you know he can be an enthusiastic personality. His enthusiasm for these headphones is warranted. Zeos' didn’t want another pair of headphones chasing the Harman curve, he wanted headphones that were FUN. Mission accomplished. These are the type of headphones you can sit back and rock out to with any music or any games. For the price it smokes what you can get in that range for games. I tried out a few of the more popular gaming headphones in similar price range, and these smashed them all in quality and sound. Put up against my DT 900 Pro X or my Sony XB910N for music, again I prefer the Eris.

These headphones do bass better than just about anything else I've tried and I've owned many headphones in this price range (dozens). For electronic music these are absolute perfection, I wouldn't change anything on these headphones. But they're not a one trick pony. You can swap the backwards (left cup on the right side but with the right side cable) and get increased soundstage which is fantastic for movies/shows. The bass lessens just a tad but is still very much there. Honestly there's not a genre of music that doesn't sound great but if there is good bass in the song you are absolutely going to FEEL it. The build is standard Harmonicdyne which is to say a little plastic feeling but very sturdy and nicely built overall. The glass on the headband and cups feels lovely but is a fingerprint magnet. So make sure you keep a microfiber cloth nearby if smudges bother you. The pads are something else, I don't know how to describe them properly. They're the softest, most comfortable pads I've ever experienced. I find myself wearing them even when I've turned the music off because they're so comfortable that they never bother you. They don't weigh much either so that just adds to the comfort. I honestly don't know how Z did it. He has videos on how he tuned them and it's amazing how many small changes add up to such a huge difference. I've done my own headphone modding/tuning over the years (Fostex T50rp is one of my favorites) and it is extremely difficult to get this kind of tuning that doesn't sacrifice something else. These are just... perfect. If you like bass and want a fun, comfortable sound you can't do better for literally twice the price. Also I am not usually big on headphone burn-in but these absolutely need it. I'm one of the few people outside of Z that owns more than 1 Eris and I have tried a pair with 100+ hours vs a brand new out of the box pair. They absolutely sound different. Not going to bore you with the details but give them at least 40 hours of play back time before you fully judge them. They do improve a good bit over that time. It's not drastic but it is enough to notice and may make the difference on liking these vs loving these. Also look how pretty the drivers are! Seriously! Oh and I'll also point out that I have the Harmonicdyne Athena (which I do really like) and you cannot mod them to sound like the Eris. I tried, the new driver in the Eris is something special, the Athena just can't get to the same level even with the cups are tuned identically to the Eris. Maybe this will save someone else hours of attempting to do that.

These headphones are easy to drive, have abundant bass, and a generally mellow sound signature. They have really nice soundstage for a semi closed set. The pads and headband are very comfortable. While a little massive for walking around, you really could use them as a portable set, either powered by a dongle DAC or a remote Bluetooth receiver, the likes of which Fiio makes. I've used these mostly with a little Anker dongle coming out of a Pixel 8 Pro phone, and that has proven to be more than sufficient. About 60% volume seems to be an enjoyable volume, and so there is plenty of headroom for either quiet sources or times when concert level volume is needed. I've also used this head-to-head with a pair of T-60 Argons, powered by a Topping DX-7 Pro. The midrange felt a little boxed in on the Eris, and it perhaps didn't have that certain effortless delivery of the Argons, but they had a bit more bass heft. I've also run them head to head with the Sivga SV-021s, which have more top end energy and detail (sometimes, a bit too much). The Eris is more relaxed. I got a 3.5mm cord, as I don't have a ton of devices with a 4.4mm connector. No obvious change in sound with the non balanced cord, as, again, these are easy to drive. I don't know that I'd actually game with these, as the bass prominence is maybe not what you need in most games. That said, with all the "bass violence" discussion, I maybe expected these to be more of a bass cannon than they are. Yes, the bass is deep and strong, but I don't believe it's any stronger than my lightly modded Fostex T-20 RPs, or even my old Meze 99 Classics. (Bass is better controlled than the Meze). My Argons have less bass prominence, but probably go about as deep. Overall, these are fun, relaxed headphones with strong bass, really nice build for the money, and great comfort. Perhaps they won't please the people who are all about the very last scintilla of detail, but they are still fairly revealing, while still giving your lesser recordings a bit of a break. Are they altogether neutral? Certainly not. But they pick a direction and go that way without apology.

Repost from head-fi: There really is something very special about the Eris. They're not fighting ZMF for emotion, Meze for bling or Sennheiser for timeless execution, but none of those have ever dared to attempt the impossible dream, let alone managed to pull it off. You think your $3k flagship has bass? Ha. You're tickling the kick drum with a feather while Eris is eviscerating it with Thor's hammer. Without being muddy either. It's wild; if a track isn't mixed for true thump, Eris plays nice and sounds fairly benign... But if the producer wanted to make your spine shake, Eris will rattle your every atom like they're inside a pair of maracas. When it hits and means it... It's like prime Mike Tyson clouting you into the middle of next week, compared to your old nanna spitting on a hankie and wiping your dirty face with it. The bass violence is very real and Eris will gleefully fight you one at a time or all at once; she knows she'll come out unscathed anyway. Yet somehow, unbelievably, miraculously, bizarrely even, with all that thuggish heft concussing your eardrums... Nothing's deficient. Mids are present, top end is fine, soundstage is great. It's a tuning balancing act unlike any other. Zeos might not be for everyone (including me on occasion!) but what he has pulled off here makes Axel Grell's recent efforts look like two halves of a coconut on a string. Surely, there cannot be more than a handful of devices throughout the whole world of audio that offer such a genuinely unique AND well-executed musical experience, most certainly not at the mere mortal end of the market, never mind the $250 or so you can buy Eris for. It's not pure glory, of course. While it's not bad up top, it's not giving you Arya stealth detail, and sometimes the mids can sound a touch scratchy. Imaging isn't pin sharp, instruments don't occupy distinct spaces as well as an HD800s, and you won't suddenly get emotional because a particular vocal hit you right in the feels, like an Auteur or 6XX can provide. But none of them, not a one, has 20% of the pure, low-end physicality that Eris has and that most people desire from music most of the time (otherwise why would all reviews begin the sound impressions there?) Eris is tuned exactly how 'the artist intended'... after the bass player has got the mix just right but before any of the rest of the band have made it to the studio. As a former bass player myself, that is the objectively correct mix, and as the artist would have intended if they had any kind of actual taste 😁 Finally, I am concerned about a post-Eris lull. I got an Arya Stealth after the price drop and it felt as anemic as a 6-toed Hapsburg. I used to own a Zen dac and refused to use the bass boost so as not to dull my ear too much. But Eris is so addictive, so thrillingly visceral and pure, that I cannot not. Maybe we need another thread, called the Eris 12-Step, to help users who mean well but can't help also falling into a 100hz 10db boost addiction. IF you have a collection, this needs to be in it.

An amazing experience from first putting the cans on my head. Nothing is like these. Nothing. They don't sound what you expect any headphone to sound like. In fact the sound doesn't "feel" like a 50mm drivers in a headphone at all. It's more like sitting in a small room with large speakers and a dedicated quality subwoofer. A home theater on your head. Games especially single player action games (FPS like Half-Life 2, souls games such as Elden Ring etc.) come to life! Better than anything I've tried. It truly elevates the game-play and pulls you in to the world. The THUMP of the low level effects is out of this world. You feel the rattle in your head and it eradiates all down your body. Ever wanna feel like a human tuning fork? Buy these then crank up the volume!. Truly feels revolutionary. Music honestly however is a more of mixed bag. If you ever tried to play music through mainstream v-shaped speakers and a sub in a 5.1 system you'll know what to expect. Some genres will sound INCREDIBLE. Nine Inch Nails and Duran Duran never sounded better. But some bands, will feel a little hollow in the middle. I listened to The Flys "Got you where I want you" and it was... not great. Where they shine they shine like the sun in July. I really hope HarmonicDyne never retires these. Because if they do... there will never be a headphone like this, ever again. I wish I could give these even more than 5 stars.

Before I say anything further, look elsewhere if you want a headphone tuned for critical, relaxing, or analytical listening. The Harmonicdyne Eris is a v-shaped, fun, engaging headphone, and you must have that understanding before buying these. Now for my thoughts. The build quality of these headphones screams premium and the pads are among the best and most comfortable I've ever used. They are incredibly easy to drive. The overall tuning is so much fun and lively, and they had me grinning from ear to ear throughout their audition. If you like bass, these are the headphones for you. These slam -- and slam hard -- all without muddying mids and vocals. Highs are sparkling and vibrant. While mids are recessed, it's nothing like a Beats headphone or poorly tuned gaming headset. They are still very much present in the mix, but merely take a backseat compared to a mid-centric headphone like an HD 600. I honestly have nothing bad to say about this headphone. It delivered everything I expected them to in spades and left me floored. The clamping force is perfectly comfortable, and the quality of materials are robust. The headband padding and earpads can also be removed and replaced when they wear out. The cable can be swapped for any dual 3.5mm cable with single ended or balanced terminations. I wish a 3.5mm adapter came in the box for the stock cable for other buyers, but that's a non-issue for me seeing as I have many other cables. If you want the ultimate headphone for gaming, movies, and music for genres like ambient, electronic, rap, and metal with audiophile sensibilities in mind, get these. No other headphone I've tried comes close in terms of this particular sound signature.

Great bass once you change the tuning and cover some of the open holes with tape or something else. Build quality is abysmal. I have a pair of Fostex x00's that are at least 7 years old now, still going strong. These things after just 1 or 2 months already have the left earcup rattling and sounding like the speaker itself is squeaking. if i jam my finger in the speaker grill it stops for like 3 or 4 days. If someone made a clone of the fostex x00 mahogany for 400 bucks id buy 6 pairs. By far the most annoying part of these headphones is the swivel. Who in the world wants over ear headphones to swivel freely? FRICTION is a MUST else they will eventually slip and break. I mean the whole thing is plastic for crying out loud except a small portion of the band. Whatever, the hunt for new $400 fostex x00's continues. and yes I know there are expensive $2000 pairs from fostex. Tried them, Not for me. Nothing beats the x00 in build quality, longevity, or sound signature. But the bass in these are fantastic with a +15db boost. (I lowered the other frequencies, I didn't BOOST the bass by itself. I'm not new to this never boost bass and call it a day, it introduces distortion. No that is not what caused the left speaker to squeak. Bass is on 0db. Everything else is on -15db. Understand?? SMH) Anyways I'm sure half of you will appreciate this and the other half will think I'm lying and buy them anyway. Then 2 months later you'll see what I'm talking about but its too late to return. Stop buying things youtubers shill. They're Never worth it. To the half that appreciate honest reviews, I salute you. To the other half, You'll learn by the time you're 30.

Winner of the best midline headphones of 2024 says me. Lol. I know to each ear their own however if you want the perfect pair exceptionally tuned cans with some kick ass bass to boot..here you go.. And i'm not even a bass person. but it is a good thing when you can make your portable music player sound like a thousand dollar component. Personally, I use No amps, no dacs..just equalize to your hearing taste if preferred. Now let's get into synergy & soundstage and how it keeps you yearning for more. I'm breaking out with my old CDs and listening to unheard nuances I've never heard before. Now it boils down to 3 headphones as being my favorite headphones of the year. AUNE SR7000 for a mind blowing soundstage and clarity but not recommended for bassheads. NEXT are the newly quietly released Sivga's endgame "ANSER". My oh my that tight punchy bass plus not to mention that upfront flowing midrange that beat out (in my opinion)the latest Mdr 1 Sonys. Of course for all great sound,comfort and pricepoint are the Harmondyne Z REVIEWS. I paired mine with a beautiful 3.5 to 3.5 Gran Via cable also made by Linsoul..available in various colors. I choose (Eris favorite) purple to match. And yes cables do change or improve sound..at least in my experience. Now patiently waiting for the MEZE 105.