[whirlwind]

 

[Buddhahacker]

  Ha!! I love it. Good thing is, I already own one. 

I usually borrow them from my wife. 

 

[Canadian411]

  I usually borrow them from my wife. 

 lol,. I hope she doesn't mind.

 

[kkcc]

What's the best way to store the HD800 and prevent dust?

EDIT: It's really annoying that sennheiser doesn't include an 

[COLOR=333333]aluminum case like the T1 case.[/COLOR]​

Just make sure you use them everyday and it won't collect any dust... mine lives on its woo stand and I make sure I use it everyday...

 

[skeptic]

I'm done here, it's being returned.  I'm not modding or getting a new DAC or Amp.   I wasn't looking for something to mod or look for a DAC or Amp to fix the damn thing.  

Probably for the best now that you've stomped the toes of a number of us who were simply trying to lend you a hand.

Sorry you took my amp comment so personally. I have nothing against AMB's designs. I just thought you might find the output impedance considerations helpful, particularly given that Senn designed it's own hd800 amp with a 40 ohm output. Did you even test out your impedance adapter idea or read purrin's impedance thread (on that other forum) before heading off to sling mud in other threads about those of us who were trying to engage with you here?

 

[koiloco]

Probably for the best now that you've stomped the toes of a number of us who were simply trying to lend you a hand.

Sorry you took my amp comment so personally. I have nothing against AMB's designs. I just thought you might find the output impedance considerations helpful, particularly given that Senn designed it's own hd800 amp with a 40 ohm output. Did you even test out your impedance adapter idea or read purrin's impedance thread (on that other forum) before heading off to sling mud in other threads about those of us who were trying to engage with you here?

+1
 
@SilverEars, Good luck with the return.  On the last note, IMO, there's really nothing wrong with the HD800, assuming your HD800 isn't a defect unit.

 

[longbowbbs]

There goes another ODAC fan.....

 

[SilverEars]

Probably for the best now that you've stomped the toes of a number of us who were simply trying to lend you a hand.

Sorry you took my amp comment so personally. I have nothing against AMB's designs. I just thought you might find the output impedance considerations helpful, particularly given that Senn designed it's own hd800 amp with a 40 ohm output. Did you even test out your impedance adapter idea or read purrin's impedance thread (on that other forum) before heading off to sling mud in other threads about those of us who were trying to engage with you here?

I wanted to try it and see if I like it, and it turned out it wasn't my cup of tea.  I like to tell it like it is.  There are some advices I would take given if it's reasonable, but I really didn't run into it here such as below.  I had to challenge your 40ohm theory since you there wasn't anything reasonable about it.  Possibly the mod, but it's just suggesting it's bright and need fixing. 
 

  There goes another ODAC fan.....

 

 

[palmfish]

I listen to my HD800 through my Asus Essence One and it really sounds wonderful. I really don't believe there is a music genre that the HD800 doesn't reproduce well. It's a transducer, that's all it is. Garbage in/garbage out.

 

[icebear]

  I listen to my HD800 through my Asus Essence One and it really sounds wonderful. I really don't believe there is a music genre that the HD800 doesn't reproduce well. It's a transducer, that's all it is. Garbage in/garbage out.

Oh well,

 

 

[skeptic]

  I wanted to try it and see if I like it, and it turned out it wasn't my cup of tea.  I like to tell it like it is.  There are some advices I would take given if it's reasonable, but I really didn't run into it here such as below.  I had to challenge your 40ohm theory since you there wasn't anything reasonable about it.  Possibly the mod, but it's just suggesting it's bright and need fixing. 
 

 
SilverEars - the whole point is that people here were attempting to provide you with helpful suggestions since you were posting in the "appreciation" thread.  None of us took the position that these are perfect headphones.  In fact, the false proposition that they should be "perfect" was your excuse for refusing to even consider the anax mod or other simple gear changes that might (or might not) have allowed you to enjoy the hd800's.  Your comment that you like to "tell it like it is" is an extremely weak (and, in fact, inaccurate) justification for your lack of civility and choice to badmouth several of us in another thread.  
 
Further, I am unaware of any post in which you substantively "challenged" the proposition that the output impedance of an amp can shape the sound of dynamic headphones.  It is well documented here and elsewhere that higher output impedance amps do change the FR of many transducers.  As you acknowledged a few pages back, unlike orthos, the hd800's have a giant impedance spike on their curve.  Bass does get boosted (at the cost of tightness) by amps with higher output impedance.  An amp with an impedance selector lets you experiment with this very easily.  You can chose to believe the Senn's engineers are totally incompetent or just happened to chose to make a SS circuit with a 40 ohm tap because they are arbitrary and capricious.  Occam's razor suggests otherwise.  The "reasonable" assumption is that Senn concluded an ultra-low Z amp was not the ideal match for hd800's and probably hd650's as well.  

 

[pearljam50000]

The HD800 is so brutally honest, and that can turn people off, because let's face it, most people like smooth and pleasant sound .
As i said, this headphone is only for the most hardcore audiophiles...

 

[Zoom25]

The HD800 is so brutally honest, and that can turn people off, because let's face it, most people like smooth and pleasant sound .
As i said, this headphone is only for the most hardcore audiophiles...

TIL I'm an audiophile…and a hardcore one at that

 

[MattTCG]

The HD800 is so brutally honest, and that can turn people off, because let's face it, most people like smooth and pleasant sound .
As i said, this headphone is only for the most hardcore audiophiles...

 
I almost chimed in to say, "that's why you should have the 650 as a complement." But then I thought to myself, "I haven't put on the 650 since I got the 800."
 

 

[Amictus]

The HD800 is so brutally honest, and that can turn people off, because let's face it, most people like smooth and pleasant sound .
As i said, this headphone is only for the most hardcore audiophiles...

Guilty, as charged, M'Lud! But I still listen to the HD650 and the RS1i a lot, depending on the source...