This world is full of 'long-standing' misnomers my friend, even fundamental basic ones; i let my intelligence guide me, and when that fails i turn to God. PM me for the fault, i consider it too negative to voice in this thread.

  When you say "resolution", i interpret that as 'Transparency', because without transparency you wont hear the resolution. But, the HD600 is "Natural sounding" you say, that would definitely be a draw-card for me. I'll have to check-out the HD600 again. If it has the same or a similar overall...

Is there any opinions on whether the HD600 might be more preferable than the HD650? From memory, several weeks ago, i was of the opinion that the HD600 sounded better overall the the HD650, but admittedly that was only on low-grade amping.

  If you like to be grimaced at from other members of the public, well fine. I travel on trams, and people are always stacked all around me, and i myself find it very inconsiderate and disrespectful and annoying when i can hear someones music coming from their headphones, thus i would not...

  Congrats. The difference for me between hearing the HD650 from merely a smartphone only or a low-grade DAC/Amp compared to the C5D was truly a revelation, which also IMO qualifies as a testament to the quality of the C5D too. Very impressive headphone for the most part. Pity about the...

  Not quite sure what you mean, but if by "third-party" you mean other companies to resell it, NO!

  Yes possibly condescending, i see your point. Sorry! Anyway, i'll tell you the three out of the top four, but the one that has nailed it i wont mention because we should be allowed to have some secrets. F1 driving teams don't go telling the competition how they tune their engines if you...

  There is a difference, yes, not a huge difference, but noticeable; the C5D is pure class, and it has more power to drive the headphone properly. An iPhone is capable of driving the headphone, but not to full performance (this is not just talking about 'volume'), the C5D has a very neutral...

  You will need a proprietary "Lightning to USB" cable; Amazon sell Apple certified ones, and cheaper than Apple. Other third-party ones are known not to work properly.

  It is so hard to give you a nameeeee! Are you a music producer? Well then, NOOOOEEEE!! LOL

      Sorry to say, but yes.

    Whoa! Where did that come from??? You obviously didn't read the very post of mine which you quoted in your reply, or didn't read it properly. What part of "proprietary' format for 'exclusive' use in DAWs" didn't you understand?    And i did not leave, so what are you talking about?

  UAD is one of the big four companies, yes, but they are not the company that nailed it. There are glaring oversights and shortcomings in their approach and algorithm design that fail to model certain aspects of the hardware (despite their own claims), and although they sound very good and...

  I do appreciate your interest in the matter, but I sincerely feel as though it's not worth mentioning the exact company to you because it probably wouldn't be very relevant unless you are an actual music producer. These plugins are in proprietary VST (Virtual Studio Technology) format for...

  Believe me, the 'exact' sound of analog gear and tubes has been 'successfully' emulated digitally in software. There are four big name software companies in the music industry that make the best quality analog emulation plugins of actual hardware units, three of those companies get 'very...