UK Audeze rep has advised: "Get a 9v battery and briefly touch the two terminals against your cable jack. For the left driver, you can touch one terminal against the larger sleeve/ground contact on the jack and the other terminal against the tip, just briefly. If you're lucky, you'll hear the driver crackle and come back to life."
"There is no telling how long the 'fix' will last, but it's very quick to 'fix' once again." Anyone ever heard of this? I guess it can't hurt if the driver is down or sticking, but I'm wary of causing further damage.
Hmm, this appears to have worked! As the rep suggested, it made a god-almighty crackle in the left driver, but it does seem to have unstuck, and sounds like it's back in action. No clue whether this would've degraded the driver. Hopefully, the LCD-4 drivers can take a bit of abuse.
Back to running them with the Phonitor SE, a surprisingly good match, and the internal DAC in my iFi Neo Stream, which I don't care for, as I feel it sounds insipid. But I might try upsampling through HQP and see if that helps anything.
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