LazyListener
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The 1840 is one of the worst headphones I've heard that has a high end price. It sounds like a £30 headphone, no joke it's awful. I've had the Utopia on loan for a long time and I don't find it a night and day differences at all, people exaggerate way too much on the differences between headphones. On the Zana Deux and Black Widow the HD650 wasn't that far behind in technicalities, the bass wasn't on the same level in terms of clarity, texture and pitch and extension but in other areas the HD650 was better tonally balanced, the Utopia is that typical lean, peaky tuning.
I'd take the HD650's natural sound and better tonal balance, smoother treble over the Utopias bit better technical performance.
It's not so much that people exaggerate differences between headphones (although some knowingly do), as it is that we each have a different perception of what constitutes a small vs a big difference.