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Originally Posted by jcfs
Thanks for all the kind responses. I am actually having a quite hard time narrowing this down to dt 880 vs dt 990. I know this may have been discussed to death, but I can't seem to quite pin-point what suits my needs.
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Just MHO, and I've never heard the 880s, but I had a pair of 990s for a while and did not like them. I found them to be really unnatural sounding with overly peaky treble. I guess you could call it detail, but it just sounded piercing to me. The bass is well textured and has a fair amount of impact, but that weird treble and recessed mids ruined the sound for me. And BTW, I'm not a treble-phobe, either -- listening to Grado SR80s even as I write this and loving them.