MAGICAL SYNERGY — BURSON AUDIO 3XP & ROSSON AUDIO RAD-0
WHAT
The Burson Audio Conductor 3XP ($1,399) delivers a transparent, natural, and highly engaging, musical experience, well beyond its price point. Further, it is coherent from top to bottom, provides a dead-quiet background, a very generous soundstage, and it has the ability to simply disappear, which is rare regardless of price. However, that the Burson Audio Conductor 3XP does not lend itself to MQA, at its price point, is disappointing, as far less expensive DACs and DAC/Amps do so and quite well (AudioQuest DragonFlys, iFi Hip-DAC, etc.). And, perhaps, a more ‘instructive’ instruction manual should, at some point, be addressed. That said, the Burson Audio Conductor 3XP is highly recommended!
Breathtaking! The collective traits of the Rosson Audio RAD-0's ($2,600)—its sublime transparency, analog-like richness and musicality, incredible treble extension, cavernous sound-staging, and solid bass fundamental, we believe, speak clearly to the next generation of planar magnetic headphones. In this respect, the Rosson Audio RAD-0 is a reference level planar headphone for music lovers! And it will lead music lovers on a path of rediscovery across all of their media and happily so! So say we.
WHY
It is like the beautiful coming together of two 500-piece halves of a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Two transparent, natural, musical components that perform some very good audio calisthenics—top to bottom, side to side, headroom to transient speed to dynamics. Did you get the “sound staging references?” Imagine what that must sound like? Yes, a Magical Synergy. We certainly thought so.
