This is what the 579 is to me they’re my love of 6 years now, I’m comparing them to the XS tonight and they’re the first thing I’ve tried that reminds me of them. The XS reveals way more detail and just sounds more massive, I can hear more texture of all the sounds but holy do things like badly recorded metal sound the worst ever. However I put on some Polyphia and suddenly I’m wrapped in a warm delicious eargasm. The 579s don’t sound as revealing or rich but they do make lesser recorded things not sound as bad as they are. I’m grabbing any spare 579s I can find left, nothing else strikes the balance of decent soundstage, decent midbass punch, decent ability to hear all ranges without anything muddying up one another they are my ultimate 24 hour no faitgue can
I’m testing my XS right now and the best things I’ve ever heard in general and on the XS specifically are well done electronica, synth, and Polyphia just WRAPS the textures around my head! I need to find other artists that record or resemble Polyphias texturing. The worst things so far have been all my friends metal recommendations that just sound like they’re coming from a single speaker across the room, flat lol. I have yet to hear anything better than psy trance and synth genres on the XS, it’s so creepy good how different layers crawl and wrap around my skull and being able to hear more texture of the sounds is more immersive and satisfying not distracting, unless of course it was badly made.
I can’t say about hip hop but I do love trip-hop I’ll do that next