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But honestly...I applaud Audeze. The new HE-6 has entered a sub segment with numerous competitors. The LCD2 entered a sub segment where it's natural competitor is the HD600/HD650 - I LMAO at this signal checkmate move. Talk about reading the conditions perfectly and catching Sennheiser with its pants down...neglecting its core customer base.
Really? I can import a HD650 here in Oz for $375, whereas an LCD-2 will cost me around $1000 with shipping. Personally I still see Sennheiser as having its pants tightly around its waist.
I know you're real passionate about the HD650...I was just as passionate as you are. But the HD650 is playing in yesteryear. I hope you can make it to the Sydney meet, I'd like to be able to let you try out the LCD2s...I'm happy to bring my HD650s for you to compare. The HD800, competes with todays state of the art...it is a $1000 premium over the HD650 - I still preferred the HD650s gentler approach to treble.
What I mean was that I found it cruel for me personally, that Sen developed such an advanced driver building my hopes for a superseded HD650...only to be left confused after auditioning such a fantastic HD800...but with a treble that drove me insane. I had the money...no problems...I paid 1.7k for the D7000s instead of 2k for the HD800...then another 1k for to Audeze...Senn saw none of that money I had that was being burned...looking for the HD650 successor. I was quite happy to put it into Audeze's pockets. Still, I'm quite happy the ways things turned out or else I would have no clue about planar magnetic technology and how a 70 dollar T50 planar could walk all over the HD650 as well.
This coming from a Sennheiser fanboy that I am.
I wouldn't say I was passionate about the 650; if so I wouldn't have given the Audeze a sideways glance. It just happens to be the most satisfying phone I've ever owned--in fact, one of the few I can stand to listen to. I'm quite happy to concede that the LCD-2 is superior (though not in a different universe, as someone else claimed--down boy); but I've already decided I'd never buy one due to construction and other small technical problems detailed in this and other threads. A phone is more than sound quality; it has to withstand the rigors; it has to be practical. Also, I'm 64 and suffering mild tinnitus. My hearing is okay for my age, but to spend over $1000 on a phone now would leave me racked with guilt even if I were delighted with the result. Later Audeze may get their act together a little more and I may talk myself into it.
Not sure what you mean by the 650 is playing in yesteryear. I appreciate that you feel the Audeze is superior...but yesteryear? Methinks hyperbole is creeping in. As for the T50, are you really saying the T50 walks all over the 650? If so, on what kind of music? I listen only to symphonic music, film and classical, and area where the 650 seems to excell. Have you thoroughly auditioned the T50 on this kind of material?
I appreciate your comments. I couldn't get these kinds of candid opinions anywhere else. And I fully appreciate the filthy lucre you've spend to arrive at these conclusions: I only wish I were so well-heeled.