Not here. Many of these CMOYs are very good values with good sound.

    this really hurts to watch. You are loosening glue, stitching, and crimping the inter-head-set cable.     Can your throw the tape measure around the widest part of your head?     LOL, just kidding about the latter. The former (GIF) is just painful to watch. 

You guys are right, at current prices (X2 higher and Senns lower) the gap has narrowed.

Yes, I took liberties of using the former Amazon $199 sale price (not available right now), which many took advantage of. So a fairer comparison is $200 (X2s) to $399 (HD 600s) to HD 650s ($381). The Sennheiser's are outstanding at those prices, especially the HD 650s. Makes me want to jump in...

I don't hear the V-shaped or loose base and distant midrange. One either likes full sound with accentuated bass (which Golden Ears recommends for headphones) or one likes flat and articulate. Your evaluation leans toward the latter. The X2 mid-range is smooth and be well-leveled given the bass...

HD598s Specialized Edition avaliable at Amazon for US $158. That's a pretty good deal.

Wwmhf, that's it... You've reached the Holy Grail! Anything else is just for the sake of hobby.

I went through similar back when the HD598 SE came out, then at $200. Concluding they were light on bass, but not really sure, I thought I would try the X2s, then at $300. As soon as I received the X2s, I immediately knew that the X2s had the extra emphasis. I thought the Soundstage were fine on...

Do they feel different? They don't really look different and this memory foam can compress a bit and differently depending on how you wear them.

Easiest simplest thing to do is to listen to a mono recording or output mono rather than stereo to see if u can hear imbalance between left and right. Then swap around the headphone and see if you can hear a similar difference in the other war with right and left swapped. If it is not your ears...

As follow-up to check my own impressions and listening bias (and not picking on any individual poster here or on Adele as an artist, who I like), I went back and measured and checked on-line the dynamic range of Adele's albums in CD format. Keep in mind, bad is 1-7, transitional is 8-13, good is...

I agree. Compressed and engineered to play loud. One day she will understand what a disservice those mass market producers are doing to her well-sung performances. Hello is actually one of the better Adele songs over the X2s, if you can believe that. Most get muddled wall of sound orchestration...

Wow. I had a Gibson starter a long time ago. I now play a Larrivée acoustic. Since my purchase about 12 years ago I have not stayed current on the comings and goings of quality in the guitar world. The Larrivée was introduced to me at the guitar store and felt and played better than the Gibson...

What specifically would have cause you to 'always hated' Gibson? Are you an dissatisfied virtuoso guitarist? I don't think Gibson shows up anywhere remotely near my 'hate meter'. Until this thread, I thought of them as a guitar and drum maker and did not even know they had expanded beyond from...

So do all these replacement pads have the four holes and guide pin? I see one style does but pretty pricey. Otherwise on the others I assume you are poking holes in the pad and having to glue them on.

Why don't u just buy from Philips?

"The bass is just so unnatural and liberally applied in a hamfisted manner" Amazing, I bought the X2s due to the just-right bass emphasis, smooth mid, and detailed highs. There's another thread of posts that details try X2 vs the 400i. Goes to show you: to each his own view. I guess it's what...

If they are too bass-heavy definitely try the Sennheisers HD 598s (Special Edition is a much nicer package including the extra cables) or the AKG K712 Pros.

You nailed it !!! That is what this is: 'G-L-U-E-G-A-T-E'   Of course, we have 'InkGate', 'ImbalanceGate', 'RingGate', 'StripGate', 'SerialNumberGate', 'SpaceGate', 'EarpadGate', 'BassGate', 'FloppyBassGate', 'QAGate', 'WooxGate', and 'GibsonGate'   I wonder what is going on at Woox? Do they...

  I use them with a BSG CMOY Amp (inexpensive and portable with seperate outputs for low and high gain headphones) and have no issues with channel imbalance (listened with two pairs, pre and recent sale X2s).

Steve Wilson. Must have missed this in the 500+ pages.

Thought u were kidding. Steve Wilson? Never heard of it. But, sounds pretty good. Will check it out.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCn-CNanD_g   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5nAA_QXBPY

Well, okay. Anyway, with new and older X2s listened to Shelby Lynne-Just a Little Loving, Stevie Wonder-Talking Book, Rickie Lee Jones-Pop Pop, Radiohead-Kid A, Los Fronterizos-Misa Criolla...all sounded quite good. Some listening was through PC and DAC (Windows 10, Foobar2000, Musiland Monitor...

This forum has gone to 'Schiit'. Can people talk about sound quality, frequency curve, imaging, appropriate DACs and Amps, and music?