The ATH-ADX5000 summon forth an ocean of details, textures, and sonic colors within your music.

Paired with the right source the Audio-Technica ATH-ADX5000 can be a great all-rounder offering flexibility in tuning allowing it to appeal to those who demand perfect objectivity, and those who may want to have a more engaging listen.

For a lightweight, brighter tuned headphone that sounds like a smoother and more airy HD800s, the ATH-ADX5000 gets my recommendation, I just wish it were priced a bit more aggressively to properly take on the HD800s.

What most impressed me about the ADX-5000 is the fact that they’re quite singular – they have a minimalist approach to design and comfort and have been engineered to deliver insight and detail into your music above all else. The ADX-500’s are a niche proposition, and an expensive one at that. But if I’ll remember one feature of the ADX-5000, it’ll be the sense of air. And in terms of where these Audio-Technicas are perched in the flagship headphone realm, they do occupy rarefied air indeed.