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Wow. He liked them.
A lot.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Dr. Greg House
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I think $1000+ headphones are a death trap. The initial raves of Audeze, HfiMan, and to a lesser extent the HD800s have eventually given way to criticism and some disappointment. I have been terribly disappointed by my LDC-2's. My first reaction was awe. Over time, I became less happy, mainly because they didn't connect me to all of the aspects of the music i was listening to as well as some others. They don't integrate. I have also found that true of the early HIfiMan products i listened to, but in all honesty, I was looking for that and it may have been a self-fulfilling prophesy.
I'd wait until I could compare them with my reference headphones, and/or until the raves have died down and there is time for some more balanced evaluations. These headphones really seem to have a bandwagon effect.
Remember, initially you didn't like the Stirlings and then something happened.
Good luck.
"You don't need to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Thanks.
I'd like to see more reviews also. My reference 'phones have been the HD600s, with Cardas cable, for years. I found the 650s to be too sonically colored for my liking.
Now I do have the HD800s as well, but it's too early to tell, although I like them so far. At least with my preferred source, which is lp.
They (the HD800s) seem to me a little hot for purely digital music, but digital copies of lps sound fine. I do have a fairly good analog front end in my system. So I can appreciate the qualities of the HD800s without being a partisan.
If the HD700s are actually somewhere in between, that would be good overall, I guess.
Not enough information yet is what I think.
Hard to argue with that. Bought my HD600's about 2 years ago on eBay for about $250 from a guy who 'claimed' they were only used for a couple hours and they hurt his head!
The arrived exactly as if new! How often dose THAT happen?
Hard to think of going with anything else without paying 4x the money to see a significant improvement.
As recently as a month ago, the HD600 was still available as 'new' on Amazon for about $350, but no longer. :-(
so Mike did you put your order in yet. They will be released in a couple of weeks from what i gather. I am trying to figure out if I should or shouldn't as I have three flagship types now. Man oh Man another fight with the wife is gonna come. LOL
I'm kind of iffy about buying the first production run of anything.
But I'm damn tempted. I have an incredible tube headphone amp and nothing to plug into it!
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Dr. Greg House
i know what your saying and frankly I am not sure they will be a contender. I know Mike at headphonia likes them and I am friends with Mike but I owned the HD800 and preferred the Beyer T1 sol I sold the hD800. Some other guys had the HD700 for a trial run also and there were mixed feelings on them. I will see what happens with them and then see what they could be bought for. personally they are all getting out of control with prices now. Another interesting headphone looks like the AKG K550 closed set for about 250.00
Aside from any sonic competence it may or may not possess, I find it difficult to believe that any company, let alone a dominant multi-national corp like Sennheiser, is capable of coming up with such a Fugly design for a $1000 headphone.Pricing HD800 now at $1500 and HD700 at $1000 is quite ludicrous, and while I will give HD700 a listen when available, for those who wish for "HD650 musicality with a little better technicals," I still recommend a used HD600, recabled with better cable and removing the veil with "foam mod" and use the money left over for a better amp.
Edits: 02/24/12
Wait for the Darth Vader Special Edition in black.
Mine are getting a little long in the tooth and could use new foam
surrounds, methinks. And that foam piece covering the driver - can
it be removed safely?
MK
Foam mod is mainly to remove the foam between driver and ears. Earpads can be replaced at the same time, if needed. HD600 stock headphone cable is terrible, so make sure to change that to something decent.
I have the HD600's and tried the so called "foam mod". I'm glad that it only took about 2 minutes and was free because it took me about that long to decide that removing the foam was a step in the wrong direction. The highs do get a little clearer. We're talking like 1% here. On the flip side, the sound staging and bass response suffer tremendously.The phones also seems to have an empty sound that becomes full again when the foam is put back in.
I can't believe that people actually think that after Sennheiser spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing the HD600's that they never considered the possibility that they might sound better without that $0.005 piece of foam. I'm sure they had beta testers listen to them both ways along with hundreds of other variables before going to production.
I resisted the urge to remove the foam when I had my 580s apart to replace their plastic grills with metal 600 grills. Slightly off topic, but the metal grill upgrade does make a positive difference with the 580s - this one tweak actually makes them sound almost as good as the 600s. Actually, the sonic difference between the 600s and the 580s with 600 grills is so slight that I would consider them as equals (performance-wise). And the 650 cable is a worthwhile, economical upgrade for either 580 or 600 headphones.
Edits: 02/25/12 02/25/12 02/26/12
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