Sorry to dig up an old thread but I wanted to comment since I have both the HD650's and the Momentums. I've been into hi end home, car, and pro audio for over two decades now but it was actually the Momentums that drew me into the headphone game very recently. While killing some time, I...

I'm really sratching my head with all the uncomfortable comments I hear about the M50x's. I'll go as far as saying that they're more comfortable than my HD650's. I believe it's just personal preference. Of course, the midrange clarity, image focus, and soudstage width is in a whole other world...

Has anyone with both sets tried to eq one to sound like the other?

Not sure if any of you have heard of this one yet. It's a portable amplifier with a DAC on board but the kicker is that is also has on board digital signal processing that is user adjustable. So as far has my research has uncovered, there was a prototype that was released to a select few for...

Has anyone compared the IE800 against Sennheiser's other high end open back headphones? I love my HD650's but wonder if I could live with the IE800's as my only pair of headphones. My only gripe with the HD650 are the obvious ones that everyone has. They're not the best for portable on the go...

Yes, there is a definite difference between the two. In general, I'll argue that open back will give superior sound quality yet at the expense of some low end. Easily fixed with a little EQ though.

My low budget vote is for the Audio Technica ATH-M50x's. Metal recordings tend to lack low end and are very bright in general. A closed back headphone with a good amount of low end helps tremendously to offset this with metal recordings.

If you play music from your computer then software eq is fantastic. It's free and you can select any type of filter or combinations of filters you like. Graphic, fully parametric, high and low shelving, etc, etc. It's great.   To my knowledge, no portable (cell phone sized) high quality eq...

Has anyone measured the resistance of a set of IE80's with an ohm meter?

I'm no stranger to extremely high end home and pro audio. Have had my HD650's for about two weeks now. Love the clarity in the midrange but I'm not a huge fan of the lifeless frequency response. Downloaded Equalizer APO today and played with the response a little. These headphones are great if...

Hey Eagle Wings. Glad to see some other Austin members here. I'd actually like to give your IE80's a try to compare them to my roommates. I could be wrong but I have a feeling he got a fake pair from Amazon. I thought they sounded horrible when he first got them a few months back. I'll need to...

Hey guys. First post here. Not new to audio but I am new to using headphones for general hifi music listening. I have used Sennheiser HD25-1 ii's in the past for monitoring purposes. My current main music system at home is a 3 way active system using DSP extensively with extremely high end...