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There is and will be no "best headphones in the world", because:
1. it's just a matter of taste
and
2. how the individual can can cope the individual recording.
I like the HD800 more than any other headphones for sure, even in a direct comparison to the big Staxes, Ultrasones, Beyerdynamics, etc.
But that's my personal taste and I'm fortunate enough, that nearly all of my favorite recordings simply sound great when listened to them with the HD800.
Different people, different opinions and tastes.
Some people really even like the Philips Fidelio L1, which I couldn't stand (I hated them for their lack of detail, dark sound, metallic resonances and artificial sounding 2kHz-bump), far more than the HD800 - for their music and their individual taste.
That's just fine.
Furthermore, to me, the older Jecklins are really some kind of "basic" (their construction) and "cheap" (not in terms of their price).
Some people may definitely like them very much, others really don't/won't.
Like e.g. Grados. For some, they seem to be "heavenly", the best of the best, for others they are mostly overpriced crap and don't deliver good sound for the price.
Everybody has to make own experiences.
What I've personally learned in many many years of audio/video-"consumption", is the following:
Never (fully) trust the opinion of other people.
Suum cuique.
Okay. But here we are less concerned with taste, requiring a conditional construction progress.
Unless: they prefer
a smaller space
less accurate sound
less color in the sound
a smaller stage
and they prefer
Circumaural hearing with the pads. If this is so, okay, then they are right. The HD800 is a very good headphones. And right in the top range. But no more, no less. The HD800 has not the air nor the subtlety, the Stax can. And not even the same speed. And even less of what makes the float QA.
But of course you can always say: Everything is taste. This then is an AKG K141 is also the best because there is a person that he enjoys.
And there's an interesting thing why I say the best
There is no electrostatic headphones in the world with a free (not circumaural) converter on the ear. and also not having such a large surface.
So once again: This is not about taste, or a hype
it comes to design benefits that no other has so headphones.
That's the point. And the only reason why the result can be better than all circumaural models.
Again, sorry for the translation. I know this is a problem. But unfortunately I have no other option. I hope you can forgive that.
But in fact it is so: When they hear the music float QA, they know in that moment:
This reproduction is clearer (viewed positively), as all they know of the best headphones. With clear, I mean, more original sound, less brown, concealment, less of all that which accompanies a sound, but not an instrument or voice heard.
Surely this is the end goal for all. Each developer touted to be quite close to this goal. But there are physical limits.
For example: A headphones that encloses the ear pads always produces its own sonic space inside of the pads. No matter how good the signal always carries this share in it.
The only way to rid the sound of it: a free sound field in front of the ear. (No enclosure)
At this point, but the manufacturer has other problems, he must overcome. He has a problem: The sound may not be too analytical. The high frequency range can release a lot of energy. There are several issues that must be overcome in order to end a homogeneous overall sound balance to have.
