Moosecraft
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would this be appliable to an HD558?
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It's really a matter of opinion. As someone demonstrated earlier in this thread, it does cause a very slight shift in the frequency responses (though basically the same shape,) so it does sound ever so slightly different but it's definitely not a night and day difference. For most of us it is an improvement. I don't think you could hate it. I suppose you could try just taking the drivers loose and holding them to your ears, but it's hard to imagine any way you could get the position and such just right, so it would probably sound too different to try that to really work as a good test.
I will say this. I don't care if everyone says the HD558/598 is better than the HD555/595. This modified HD555 is just so completely exactly perfect for what I want that I never want to change it. In fact, I'm going to have to buy a backup soon just in case something happens (a little paranoia on my part, but, if nothing else, most quality headphones can only last some ten years or so before they eventually get torn up from normal usage, so, lol, just another reason I want a backup for the future.) I won't claim it suits everyone, but I will say that for me at least the sound is absolutely perfect beyond any ability for me to even imagine the theoretical possibility of anything else ever being any better at all. (Well, obviously it won't suit everyone else's preferences so exactly, but in other words, it is at least good, lol.)