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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    Since settling on my listening gear for the next few years (HD650, Asgard, iPod Classic w/z-Dock) I have reallocated about 99% of my Head-Fi.org time toward listening to music instead. Very satisfying.
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    When I hear "choke" I always picture a little ferrite bead slipped over the wire.
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    So does oak choke sound darker and maple choke sound brighter?
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    HRT iStreamer DAC video review - a true iPod/iPhone/Ipad DAC!

    Not familiar with the Wadia but yes, when you plug the iStreamer into your iPod it bypasses the DAC in the iPod and only the DAC in the iStreamer is used. It is a basically an external replacement for your iPod's DAC. In your proposed configuration the Little Dot 1 would then replace the...
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    Loving the sound of CELLO!

    No, it sounds to me like the open C-string just has more excursion than any of the others when played loudly. Any bowed or plucked stringed instrument has a "sweeter" or more in tune with itself, pure tone when the string doesn't move too far from a straight line. At the extremes of its travel...
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    Loving the sound of CELLO!

    If being played at a very loud dynamic level, the open C string on a cello will have a character somewhat different from any other note on the instrument. Even different from the other open strings. It is a way the player can produce that extra little bit of profound emphasis if he likes when...
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    Perhaps I'm parsing your comments wrong, tdockweiler, but it sounds like your impression bottom lines to brighter=better.
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    I agree with canoners. The beauty of the HD650 isn't in your reaction the minute you put them on. It kind of builds as you listen for an hour and don't want to stop. Or when you listen to stuff you didn't particularly like all that much with your old headphone but now it sounds Wonderful. That...
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    My HD595 was never quite as tight as my HD650 is. But the '595 was used and had probably a hundred hours or more of wear time on it. I also got the '650 used but it was only a week only with more like ten hours use. Still, I think the HD595 is by design not as tight. And now that it's several...
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    Shahrose, Yep, sounds good to me. Get it? The HD650 "sounds" good? Man I crack myself up.
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    And why would I want to spend hours of my time building a cable any more than I would want to spend hundreds of dollars. Either way it's senseless to invest time or money in trying to prove a negative proposition. The last time I spent two hundred bucks and about fifty hours trying to hear...
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    My point being, recognizing that something is silly and declining to spend a few hundred dollars confirming that it is silly is worth saying here just like any other "finding".
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    No it's not pointless arguing. It's exactly as valuable as someone who "tested" and posted an OH MY GOD gushing comment about the enormous difference it makes. One could easily read most parts of this forum and conclude that everyone who gives a darn about their listening gear spends money on...
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    Sennheiser HD650 & Massdrop HD6XX Impressions Thread

    Hey, some folks apparently have life-changing experiences upon first exposure to really expensive aftermarket wires for their headphones, speakers, interconnects, whatever. One can be assured that those folks will mention it early and often on forums like this one. To the point where newbies...
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    Sennheiser HD 600 Impressions Thread

    I trust my eyes. Having seen how the last three inches of wire inside the HD-600 and HD-650 are literally hair thin plain copper wires, I'll never view the cable-upgrade stuff as anything other than risible.
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