AllEars, the "058" you are seeing is actually "U58" on the display. The top of the "0" is cut off which may be hard to see when you are looking down on the unit. "U58" is Bel Canto's way of spelling USB on the limited mostly numeric display. Turn the knob when you see USB to see AES, SP1, SP2...

sleepkyng, For me crossfeed is very important in headphone listening. It’s one of those things that, until you have heard it, you don’t know what you’re missing. Even on classical orchestra recordings where there is a lot of natural crossfeed in the recording itself, turning it on makes that...

wallijonn, you are quite right that the DT880s have a larger soundstage than the Sennheisers. I rank soundstage as a relatively unimportant quality in headphones, so I forgot to mention it. It is very legitimate that people have different audio values. I prefer a smaller, more speaker-like...

saint-panda, Sorry to take so long to get back to you, but the new system deleted my old password, and there is no search function. As a source I am using an NAD 541. Though it is a relative budget cd player, it has been praised by reviewers as having particularly excellent tonality in The...

I have compared the DT880 phones with the Sennheiser HD600 and HD650 phones (without upgrade cables) in my system all at the same time out of a HeadRoom Max. My initial impression was that the DT880s has a sonic signature similar to the Sennheiser phones but brighter, which I liked. The...