Build: Wonderful, robust headphone, au pair or second to only DT770. Nice, industrial look.
Comfort: Excellent. Medium weight (at cca. 300g) but comfortable. Soft headband and pads. Robust and flexible mechanism. This is how headphone should be designed.
Isolation: Open back. You'll hear the environment and they will hear you.
Bass: Almost perfectly neutral. Open back that goes down to 20Hz without roll-off. About 1dB rise in upper bass.
Midrange: Very good. About 2dB rise in lower mids and big 6dB drop in the upper mids about 1.5kHz, but with little audible effect on tonality.
Treble: Excellent. 3.5 dB drop at the lower treble and 2dB rise at 6 kHz and 1dB in upper treble and air. Adding air while cutting hard edge on vocals. It can get sibilant, though.
Tonality: Bright neutral. S-
EQ: Not necessary. Great with Optimum HiFi. Add bass per preference. I love it with 4 dB boost.
Detail: Hard, fast transients. Fantastic clarity. This redefines the price bracket. There is no such a resolving driver under 1000 EUR. (Maybe LCD-2?)
Imaging: Good soundstage, precise imaging.
Dynamics: Fantastic, almost Fostex level punch n' slam.
Tech: A
Score: A
Value: Worth the blind. Best of Hifiman tuning, Focal technicalities, Beyerdynamic build and Sennheiser QC for the price of HD600. What are you waiting for?
Comfort: Excellent. Medium weight (at cca. 300g) but comfortable. Soft headband and pads. Robust and flexible mechanism. This is how headphone should be designed.
Isolation: Open back. You'll hear the environment and they will hear you.
Bass: Almost perfectly neutral. Open back that goes down to 20Hz without roll-off. About 1dB rise in upper bass.
Midrange: Very good. About 2dB rise in lower mids and big 6dB drop in the upper mids about 1.5kHz, but with little audible effect on tonality.
Treble: Excellent. 3.5 dB drop at the lower treble and 2dB rise at 6 kHz and 1dB in upper treble and air. Adding air while cutting hard edge on vocals. It can get sibilant, though.
Tonality: Bright neutral. S-
EQ: Not necessary. Great with Optimum HiFi. Add bass per preference. I love it with 4 dB boost.
Detail: Hard, fast transients. Fantastic clarity. This redefines the price bracket. There is no such a resolving driver under 1000 EUR. (Maybe LCD-2?)
Imaging: Good soundstage, precise imaging.
Dynamics: Fantastic, almost Fostex level punch n' slam.
Tech: A
Score: A
Value: Worth the blind. Best of Hifiman tuning, Focal technicalities, Beyerdynamic build and Sennheiser QC for the price of HD600. What are you waiting for?
