Quote: Originally Posted by catscratch Also, on the note of cheap electrostatics... Nice reviews, catscratch.

Quote: Originally Posted by hentai Hd595 makes me shout along the rocker while hd600 makes me listen to the rocker. I'm sorry, but I just got a funny image of two headphones, each one with legs and arms, and they've got you tied to a wooden chair under a bright incandescent light...

Quote: Originally Posted by tingj I just got these a couple of weeks ago, influenced in part by reviews on this site. I am disappointed enough to contemplate returning them. I have run them 24 hrs/day for 2 weeks to break 'em in but still can't seem to warm up to their sound. The...

Um, in my opinion the HD650s will never be boring. I suppose if I were accustomed to very forward or boomy phones the 650s would seem too recessed. The 650s are very good for trance with vocals or with very deep bass. If you like hard house stuff you might go with the SA5K because it has...

Quote: Originally Posted by morphie The bass is not deficient, it is different. This bass is BALANCED, it has the sound the bass really should have. Grado's bass is much fuller, but not as deep, detailled, or fast. It doesn't have the impact of this bass, but it has more slam. I...

It could be clamp pressure impairing circulation, restriction of head motion leading to muscular fatigue, sensitivity to extra cranial inertia and weight leading to muscle fatigue, or maybe the volume you're playing the music at is too loud.

If you have the Senn HD650 and you think the sound is a bit distant, veiled, dark or whatnot when listening to pop vocals or rock, test the use of an equalizer and boost the 3 or 4 khz range by 8 to 12 decibels.

You can also check resellerratings.com. You have to sift through the reviews. Some retailers post phony positive ratings. But you can tell if a site sucks because certain sites get 90 percent five star ratings that are fluff, and a handful of drastically bad negative ratings that are very...

If the drivers aren't burned in, prepare yourself for a pleasant surprise in about a week.

It's been easy for me to bring the HD650 "forward" by boosting the 3K frequency range about 12 dB, by equalizer, for rock music. For classical music, such an adjustment ruins the spaciousness of the sound. What's playing now: Recital Trompette & Orgue Frederic Presle and Jacques Amade...

I use a sonic implement specifically designed for audiophile quality phones called the Quistip Ultra U50. It is a 0.05 cm cylindrical rod encased in methylcellulose to resist hydrophilic contaminants and overlaid with lightweight, flexible monofilaments comprised of 99.995% pure cellulose. The...

It's obviously the hi-fi mag's job to pimp up the audio equipment. The bottom line is always there.

Are you playing techno from MP3s or from CDs?

How do people feel about the Music Fidelty XCAN3? Also, when your HD650 burns in, it's like a small pool become deeper and deeper.

Emon's post reminded me of a monitor that I bought new a couple of years ago and when I plugged it in the image presented had good color but the resolution was terrible due to "jaggy lines". I thought, "What the heck?"; maybe that the electron tube or something else was defective so I called the...

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Great, great review, James63. I'll have to try out the Alessandros. I've been finding that increasing the midrange response at 3 or 4 kHz by 10 decibels tends to make the hd650 present with improved immediacy for metal, and it also deepens the soundstage.

http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/archi.../t-104166.html Welcome to OCD hell.

Quote: Originally Posted by Leporello It was us, the hifi enthusiasts - to avoid the "buyer's remorse". See, usually even genuinely good pieces of gear do not sound as fantastically good as they are reputed (hyped) to sound. Instead of blaming our new piece of gear (and ourselves) we...

Breakpoint: Franz Schubert Symphony Number 8 First Movement-Allegro moderato Neville Marriner, Conductor Academy Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields Recorded London 8/1983 DDD I've had this recording forever. All the speakers I've owned, including Magnepan 3.6+subwoofer+Bryston, Ohm Walsh F...

The thing I've noticed with high quality equipment is that it makes music sound so good you even start listening to stuff you never liked (before the hifi) simply because the certain recordings sound great on your system, and strangely music you used to like might sound really crappy on hi-fi...

Quote: Originally Posted by GreenEggs313 I'd say 90% of the 'burn in' people talk about here is just their ears adjusting to the sound signature of the headphone. Do you ever see posts where people have hated their headphone post-burn in? I've only seen posts where people were happy with...

When the HD650 burns in it is like having a different set of headphones. Burn, baby, burn.

Yeah, my dog did give me funny looks the first week. I tried to put the phones on her but she HATES that. If anyone ever drives that road with lights off I'm a goner.

I wear HD650s. I run on an unlit rural road close to midnight with my dog on a leash in one hand and carrying an 18lb iron digging rod in the other to ward off the occasional vole. Don't hear a damn thing beyond the music.