Excellent review. Nicely done.
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C.C.S.
I must respectfully disagree on a couple of points here.
The first is the point you've made about its build quality. These things most definitely demonstrate a very strong build and though it may be built mostly with plastic, it is extremely solid. I don't see myself ever needing to take replace anything on the HD600 except, perhaps, the cable which will likely fail eventually.
The second is really a combination of two things: treble and detail level. Relative to the rest of the spectrum, the treble on the HD600 does not really sound particularly recessed. The overall drop in level is very slow and most treble will sound relatively close in level to the mid range if your music is recorded with both in equal amounts. As a result, detail - in any portion of the sound spectrum - is there in good amounts. It may not be the most detailed headphone out there, but this headphone will allow you to hear almost everything in any given recording, including these microdetails that you claim the EPH-100 performs better with.
As a former owner of the EPH-100, I would like you to make another attempt at evaluating that claim because I feel so strongly that the statement made about them in comparison to the HD600 is incorrect. I've never found a single recording with which the EPH-100 could resolve more detail than the HD600, regardless of which part of the sound spectrum is being analyzed.
The first is the point you've made about its build quality. These things most definitely demonstrate a very strong build and though it may be built mostly with plastic, it is extremely solid. I don't see myself ever needing to take replace anything on the HD600 except, perhaps, the cable which will likely fail eventually.
The second is really a combination of two things: treble and detail level. Relative to the rest of the spectrum, the treble on the HD600 does not really sound particularly recessed. The overall drop in level is very slow and most treble will sound relatively close in level to the mid range if your music is recorded with both in equal amounts. As a result, detail - in any portion of the sound spectrum - is there in good amounts. It may not be the most detailed headphone out there, but this headphone will allow you to hear almost everything in any given recording, including these microdetails that you claim the EPH-100 performs better with.
As a former owner of the EPH-100, I would like you to make another attempt at evaluating that claim because I feel so strongly that the statement made about them in comparison to the HD600 is incorrect. I've never found a single recording with which the EPH-100 could resolve more detail than the HD600, regardless of which part of the sound spectrum is being analyzed.
mechgamer123
I must also say that the build quality is good. I guess I might not have conveyed that properly in my review. I think the build quality is good for being mostly plastic, but at the same time I feel that for $400 the plastic surrounding the drivers could be improved from where it is now.
That may very well be because I was simply paying more attention at one passage through the EPH-100s than through the HD600s.
But personally for me, the treble isn't quite as forward as I am used to. I did mention that the B2s do have more treble, and so I guess the feeling about recessed treble comes from being used to the B2.
That may very well be because I was simply paying more attention at one passage through the EPH-100s than through the HD600s.
But personally for me, the treble isn't quite as forward as I am used to. I did mention that the B2s do have more treble, and so I guess the feeling about recessed treble comes from being used to the B2.
