Mark Levinson No. 5909 - High Resolution Wireless Headphones with Active Noise Cancellation (Red)

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Everything is fitted and finished with obvious care and precision, and the clamping force of the headband is nicely judged. By prevailing standards the No. 5909 are quite a compact design, and as a consequence they won’t swamp smaller-headed wearers like quite a few alternative designs do. In 1972, Levinson founded Mark Levinson Audio Systems (MLAS, Ltd.) in New Haven, Connecticut. He ran MLAS from 1972 to 1980, during which time he created products such as the LNP-2 preamplifier. He also invented the concept of high-end car sound in 1979. [ citation needed]

Driving for massive staging can sometimes ruin the density factor of the entire headphone and make it sound thin and stretched. The No. 5909 is quite dense and hefty for a dynamic driver. Tonally, things are pretty even. This is a refined presentation. One that’s got enough in the way of smoothness to avoid making a meal of poor recordings or sources but remains transparent enough to allow good quality music feeds to shine. The air factor is natural and enjoyable to the point I can listen for hours and not feel like I need more. Not many headphones opt for this type of sound, and I am glad they ended up sounding this way. The No. 5909 are very well built, from high-quality materials, and the ear cushions are easily replaced if they wear out. The battery is big enough that even if its capacity drops by 50% over time, they’ll still be perfectly serviceable for all but the longest listening sessions. The vivacious production of Toto’s Rosanna gives the Mark Levinsons a sonic canvas on which to truly showboat – those drums biting, vocals rich, and guitar lines and keyboards infectiously musical. They lap it up as enthusiastically as a dog eats spilled ice cream. No part of the frequency spectrum is given undue priority, and that, coupled with the headphones’ attention to detail and brisk nature, makes the No. 5909 utterly compelling to listen to in a way lesser wireless headphones are not.

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The No. 5909 can swing both ways slightly to the left and right depending on what your rig is composed of. But again, focus on tone and bass/treble qualities, and not power. Power is not needed here and only really helped make the headphone sound smoother overall. Low, Adrian. "Interview with Mark Levinson" (PDF). DanielHertz.com. Audio Excellence (Ontario, CA) . Retrieved 16 December 2017. Mark Levinson is an American audio company that specialise in the design and manufacture of high end hifi equipment with products such as amps, turntables and streaming/CD players. Inside of that box, is another actual product unit box that includes a hefty zipper case, a few portable travel connectors, one short USB-C to 3.5mm cable and a long extension cable, and some documents from the company.

It hardly holds a candle to the exemplary battery life of the Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless at 60 hours of ANC-enabled play time, but it’ll get you through a full day (or flight) with ease, and for most folks, that’s enough.

Lexus and Mark Levinson: A sounds partnership". Lexus UK Blog. Lexus UK. Archived from the original on 12 February 2015 . Retrieved 11 February 2015. What I did notice is that they behave similarly to the three ANC modes on the MW75, which is to say, they produce a small but noticeable amount of hiss when music isn’t playing, and when you change modes, the headphones take two seconds to do so, during which time your music is interrupted and a voice announces the new mode. Master & Dynamic let you turn these voice prompts off, but Mark Levinson doesn’t.

We move from the analogue line stages to the co-ax digital input and this amplifier continues to please. We lose some of the solidity and authority of the ND 555’s internal DAC but the digital module inside the 5805 delivers enough in the way of expression and rhythmic coherence to leave us impressed. It’s a clean and crisp sound that balances smoothness with bite. Mark Levinson's second new flagship separate within the 5000 series is the No. 5302 power amplifier (above), with custom-designed external heat sinks and front panel handles. This integrated is rated at a healthy 125W per channel into 8ohms. That figure just about doubles as the load impedance halves, which is impressive. That means the No.5805 will drive even the most difficult speakers without issue, and to pretty high levels. Only those with the largest rooms or particularly inefficient speakers are likely to need more. In actual fact, though, that’s going to have to wait for another day and another product. Because although the Mark Levinson No. 5909 don’t perform like every penny’s-worth of their asking price, they are a profoundly impressive pair of headphones. Where transient response and detail retrieval are concerned, too, the Mark Levinson could offer lessons. They identify the most minor, most fleeting occurrences in a recording, and put them into proper context – and, again, this is not at the expense of the overall presentation. But if there’s information to be revealed in a performance, the No. 5909 will reveal it in the most balanced and naturalistic way.Transparency modes (voice pass and ambient) are also very good, giving you a strong connection to the outside world when you need it.

The control system is feature-rich, including adjustable input pads so you can match the volumes of your various sources and set a maximum volume. The Mute function can be set to quiet the volume rather than silence it. "Taper" allows you to set how fast the volume changes when you turn the volume knob. There's an auto-off function that turns off your car—kidding—that powers down the unit after 20 minutes of inactivity. There's a choice of three standby modes: one consumes just 7W of power, thereby satisfying EU environmental rules, another that keeps the control system active to receive commands from the remote, and a third that consumes 70W and is recommended if you don't want to wait an hour for the amplifier to warm up before you can get optimal sound.Mark Levinson (born December 11, 1946) is an American audio equipment designer, recording and mastering engineer, multi-instrumentalist musician, and serial entrepreneur. He was formerly married to the actress Kim Cattrall.