Went to sleep and broke the HD600 in more to a bunch of Mike Oldfield records, sitting by itself of course on low volume.   Listening now to some Lateralus from Tool and these sound very smooth to me. Records are very easy listen to for longer periods of time. It's more like music. I've been...

For what it is worth my Denon 2112CI is pushing these very well. Was a little worried but no plenty of undistorted power it seems. Still breaking them in to some long play Miles Davis. One thing I can't do with these is play them at night hardly at all.... so back to the BD DT1350s for night time.

Just picked up a pair of these for the Amazon 250 deal. Pretty amazing so far. I can see where they can be outdone by modern headphones, but they are really up there with the tone for me. The staging of course is different than some might want, but that is mostly preference anyway.   These are...

Yes, correct, but those old CDs also had terrible scans to begin with in most cases. The converters were not even close to what we have today. Sure, they can sound decent, so can normal CDs from that day. But again, I felt something different on that STP Core release in high-res and I'm sure it...

Campbell and the Admin in the mac article up there get into an intense debate about some things. It is worth reading. They also link to some experimental studies on perception of sounds past the normal range and other useful tidbits.   http://jn.physiology.org/content/83/6/3548   "In...

Here was this debate I was reading which was pretty entertaining: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/digital-music-16-bit-44-khz-explained   One thing that should always be taken into account is that a high-res version of anything is almost ALWAYS going to better than its late 80s/early...

I don't believe you. Why? Because now you are trying to tell me that there is science behind this audible transparency that 100% confirms it. I don't believe this.   I do believe that a perfectly assigned downscaling from 24/96 to 16/44.1 is inaudible to my system and ears. But now you are...

Well I have been following up on this debate again. Let me get what I have been reading. I have no idea about some of it and don't make any claims  as to the accuracy. As I said I get 24/96 to rest easy, and even 24/192 sometimes because really I don't care about space. I got the Grateful Dead...

I'll honestly never even touch lossy material. I don't care what ABX you want to drive through my wrists. No, you cannot always tell the difference but on A LOT of stuff you sure as hell can. ABX tests are often a flawed methodology. You really need to sit down with an album and go all the way...

The momentums are decent headphones and not catered to explicitly for the hip-hop market. A tad bit I'd say but that is it.

Quote: Yes, in fact they are garbage. Mine can't hold the metal from touching my head after a year of hard use and are totally indented on the tops. That is exactly what I call useless, hence, the term crappy.

Earpads look like the same crap from the first ones to me.

Coming up on two years here in a couple months and have already notified Beyer I need to send these back. I am definitely getting new cushions on the speakers, as these would seriously kill me if I wore them without my Senn pads over them, and I guess I will see what they do. Doubt they will add...

I'm having trouble deciding if I should invest in these and I also wonder when the next iteration will be out. It may be sooner than later who knows. There is almost too much talk of this peak that is scaring me off. And the comments about weak bass but sometimes that can be source related.  

In the end I just bent the metal a little further out and will take the reduction in bass for comfort. When they seal they are sweet but the pads just don't hold up and lead to pain for my large head after a year. Beyer really should have made the outer casing less sharp against the ear in the...