Dan Clark Audio Stealth Headphone Review 

*4000 DOLLARS?? Crazy!* the host in this channel is amazing. Knows his stuff. Puts it out very very well and good. *THANK YOU!*

Nice review! Glad you're smart enough to preserve your hearing and know safety limits. It's crazy how a great portion of the community has hearing loss and is borderline deaf!

A r really thorough comprehensive review. Thank you. Good to be informed about the long break in period. Thank you. 😎👍

I just bought a stealth to try it myself, having had rather bad experience with the Aeon closed before. Stealth is at least roughly comparable, technically, to other flagship. However, its tuning is slightly too shouty for my liking. A little too bright but at the same time lacking some air frequencies. To me, Harman tuning just isn’t neutral or natural enough. But overall, the headphone is pretty good technically and in terms of build quality.

Just spent some time with them at the canjam chicago and I have to say that they are not bright at all like nothing , very good bass, well controlled. I think the break in is really a thing here, thanks for the video

Thanks for another TOTL review. When you showed the case I could not help thinking to myself why a product named "Stealth" would have the name printed on the case, and in a high contrast color to boot?

The only problem I had with these is the initial stiffness of the headband. It's something that will break in over time but was really stiff (on my bald head). Other than that I loved everything about these.

It seems this one is very sensitive with positioning on the head. This probably causes so much variation in the sound.

Always looking forward to a good Waview

I bet he's going appreciate you breaking those things in for him, lol.

HiFiMan recommends 150hrs of break-in time for their headphones.

I would love to see your opinion on Audeze CRBN and Stax SR-009s

After I couple months with the stealth I realized just how temperature sensitive the pads are and how it affects the sound. This is more likely what you're experiencing. To test this, get a dryish hot towel and let it sit between the pads for a min or so. Lmk how it turns out for ya

I guess the KANN CUBE or KANN ALPHA from ASTELL AND KERN are some of the few daps that would probably be able to handle this headphone amp wise. I think the Alpha goes up to 12 VRMS.

Likely positioning as well as glasses gap on pads. Burn in is questionable.

Thank you for the review. I think you are trying too hard not to offend anyone with your review(s), particularly seeming to go out of your way not to offend fanboys of a given headphone. You describe this headphone as not having enough "punch and slam" and being a "specialist". These 'qualities' alone remove it from the top tier. I heard this headphone and I agree with your description, this headphone does not live up to the standards set by other headphones (open or closed) in the $4k+ category. Every other contender at that $4k+ tier are way better all arounders and way better at the things this 'specialist' specializes in. LCD-5, Elite, Susvara, Utopia, Abyss TC. Actually I cannot think of any $4k+ headphone that does not do everything sound related better than these. There are many headphones priced FAR lower than these that work better for everything including the areas that this headphone 'specializes'- Verite Closed, LCD-XC, Stellia, Arya, HE1000 to name a few. The overall sound quality and technical ability of these puts them in competition with Focal Clear MG, Focal Celestee, LCD-2 and the Ananda, all of which are in the $1k or less area. There is one area where the Stealth does set a very high TOTL standard though. The build quality and aesthetics of the Stealth are beyond reproach. Even if you are someone who dislikes the black/red/carbon scheme, when you hold these in hand, they ooze quality and attention to detail. $1k sound. $4k build quality. These should be $2k headphones competing directly with the Meze Empyrean (also $1k sound & $4k build).

The Aeon 2s had the same issue with not being driveable with portable devices, sure they work on daps but they sound weird and only really work with an amp

Keep it up scholar appreciate your work!

Keep the good work up

I think the cable with the unit you have is unusal, the nylon on mine does have a bit of slack but it seems like quite a bit less than what you showed.

Wave continues crashing down upon TOTL. We need some amps and dacs homie! Maybe the use case for this office use where you can keep an amp/Dac at your desk. Perhaps you could have compared closed back performance to Stellia and VC which are the other totl closed.

iFI Diablo will drive it

Lol burn in… please contact me, I got this rope that when you tie it to your headphone cables, it will enhance your clarity and sense of space. Don’t worry it is only 1000 dollars and definitely not made of shoe laces.

So i spend $4000 on a average headphone that doesn't sound great out of the factory and another week fixing the sound .....WTF...

OK? Kay? Umkay? Am I watching King of the Hill? Okay!