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Adorama has HD650 for 350 if you go thru techbargains.com

Sorry to hear that you have to let it go, I have similar concern about He-400, one thing I have to say about Dt-990 that it is supremely comfortable, I could sleep wearing those if only the sound was not bothering me, HD-558 was also very close comfort wise. Though none of my sessions run 4 hrs...

  Let me know how it sounds like as we seem to have a similar path. Some writeup talk about sparky treble of he-400 which will be problematic,if that is not offensive then this might well be what I'm looking for.

Thanks, @marcopower I've narrowed down my research to three sets of cans, hd650 is one of them, hd600 and he400 are other two . Previously I had a brief experience with hd558 and found the sound to be inoffensive but kinda boring with not much body , it was not used in the same setup that I...

I almost daily use DT990 for listening to music, my interest are mostly in classic rock, classical,jazz and a bit of indie and alternative. After using them for almost 2 years I'm finding the sound to be too harsh for my taste for long listening sessions though most of my sessions are not more...