HD-650 Veil Update: The "Veil" is Not Real - Page 11

The thing is though, if you get a headphone to work with a fairly 'flat' response, you can stop worrying about the 'genres' that it plays since a 'flattie' should work with all of them as long as the producers got the mix right in the first place.

I'm not always sure it's a good thing to use different headphones as a 'tone control' for different genres. Hip hop should work on a flat headphone just as well as orchestral really. After all, we can't change our ears for different concerts!!

After time spent with my HD-650 (silver driver edition), I, too can vouch that there really isn't a veil to speak of.  The sound is nice, and well balanced.  To me, some of the modified Fostex headphones have had a somewhat veiled sound to them and a sound stage that is slightly more narrowed.  Also, if a person were used to the Grado house sound and switched to the HD-650 from Sennheiser, they might say there is a veil on the HD-650 because the "tizzy" sound of the Grado would skew their hearing to a degree.  The HD-650 is an audiophile headphone.  It does its work by presenting the music to you, the listener in a pleasurable way.

Sennheiser apparently tried hard to make the headphones to appeal to quite a few genres of music.  However, if someone is looking beyond "good" bass that the HD-650 provides and desires something super-punchy for hip-hop, I can see where the HD-650 might not appeal to them.  But, the HD-650, from a physical comfort sense, and an audible "comfort" sense really presents itself as a headphone that can be worn for several hours without fatigue from "tizzy" highs or discomfort issues due to the design other headphones may use.