[Bina]

 
 
Got them today for review, little fighting with fit, but otherwise they sound great.
 
 
 

 

[debitsohn]

great picture!

 

[Captfantastic]

Great picture of great headphones.

 

[debitsohn]

anyone consider bending the headband to a little sharper round shape? i think that would add some clamping + be more like my head shape. because if i have them on and i lift the top of the headband a little, the bass becomes much better. /shrug.

 

[DaeO]

I'm really torn between these and the hd25i-II as my next purchase - anyone have any experience of both?
 
Thanks

 

[rasmushorn]

Passing 350 hours now and lately I hear minor improvements in the mids and highs. Highs become better defined and they start to reveal some microdetail and a crispness which I really like. I still feel a very thin veil somewhere in the lower mids and upper bass which I do not think will ever go away. 
 
This weekend I removed the earpads and cut away the cotton covering the drivers. It helped open up the sound even more. Sort of like the HD650 mod where you can remove the stuffing around the drivers. They became a bit brighter and it only makes the music more detailed and for vocal jazz very intimate sounding. I also removed the aluminum plates with the Beyerdynamic logo on the side of each driverhouse. I do not think it affected the sound in any way.
 
I am more and more seriously concidering a new cable. I contacted the local Beyerdynamic distributor and they are working on a solution with the warranty if they change the cable for me. Now I have to find a good silver cable for this mod. 

 

[rasmushorn]

Just grabbed this from the Beyerdynamic webpage:
 
 

EISA AWARD FOR T 50 P

25. August 2010

: the editors-in-chief of 53 trade magazines from 20 countries have voted – and chosen the new beyerdynamic T 50 p as “European Mobile Headphone 2010-2011” in the EISA 2010 awards. The trophy has been awarded since 1989 by the European Imaging and Sound Association, an affiliation of renowned hi-fi, photography and electronic magazines.

“This award is an honor for us and shows that we are setting new acoustic benchmarks with our Tesla technology”, said a happy Mario Gebhardt, Head of Development for Audio Products at beyerdynamic. Under the “Tesla” description, the well-established Heilbronn-based company combines an entire bundle of sound-enhancing measures that are based on a particularly powerful magnetic drive system. At the same time, the name is a nod to the ingenious electrical engineer Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), to whom the developers of groundbreaking inventions utilizing alternating current owe quite a lot.

But the EISA experts were not just taken with the excellent sound of the T 50 p: the jury specifically praised the beautiful and elaborately handicrafted design in their laudation. The headphone won them over due to its wearing comfort, making “hours of relaxed listening” possible. The T 50 p, launched in spring 2010, is already the second headphone to feature Tesla technology. The beyerdynamic invention celebrated its premiere last year with the top-of-the-range model T 1 for the high-end hi-fi market. And the T 50 p is not to be the last Tesla headphone: the audio specialist will present the T 5 p at IFA 2010 in Berlin - audiophile headphones for those “on-the-go” that clearly take the tonal refinements of the EISA award winner to extremes.

 

[RockinCannoisseur]

Quote:

I totally disagree.  The DT770/600 is NOT boomy at all in the bass; in fact, it has a little too restrained a bass weight, IMO - when they redesigned the 770 in 2005, they made it to be like a closed DT880.  The 990 has a bit og bass boom, but the 770 does not, IMO.
 
I think the 770/600 is a massively underrated closed headphone.  When I bought the T1, I sold my 880/600 and 990/600 - no need for them anymore.  But the 770/600, being closed and having good isolation, remains an important part of my headphone stable.
 
And in terms of just pure performance the 770/600 outperforms the t50p.

this helps
 so did you ditch the 880/990 4 the t1 and keep your 770 because t1, 880/990 r all open, and your 770(beautiful i might add) is closed? and so they are more 4 realxation?
    as a connoisseur of closed cans i am curious, especially when seriously considering the 990 over the 770 600 ohm cans.     i was leaning far toward the 990 as i have read their bass and sparkle is superior to the 770,   ( and i read a post which claimed the 770 were light in bass as well as highs)
   however i am wary, embarrasingly having  never owned any open cans, that i may seriously hate them to an astounding degree never before thought possible.   the horror..  but then again u never know...unless u have a skylab
thanks
 
just wanted to add that a compare of the t1/t5p/edition8 would be awesome especially if u did it,   even if its apples to oranges i am still curious as to how the t1 and new t5p compare  especially considering they are in the same price bracket.
 
imo t50p is more aesthetically pleasing than most

 

[Skylab]

 
Quote:

this helps
 so did you ditch the 880/990 4 the t1 and keep your 770 because t1, 880/990 r all open, and your 770(beautiful i might add) is closed? and so they are more 4 realxation?
    as a connoisseur of closed cans i am curious, especially when seriously considering the 990 over the 770 600 ohm cans.     i was leaning far toward the 990 as i have read their bass and sparkle is superior to the 770,   ( and i read a post which claimed the 770 were light in bass as well as highs)
   however i am wary, embarrasingly having  never owned any open cans, that i may seriously hate them to an astounding degree never before thought possible.   the horror..  but then again u never know...unless u have a skylab
thanks
 
just wanted to add that a compare of the t1/t5p/edition8 would be awesome especially if u did it,   even if its apples to oranges i am still curious as to how the t1 and new t5p compare  especially considering they are in the same price bracket.
 
imo t50p is more aesthetically pleasing than most

 
Right - I kept the 770/600 since, being closed, they offer something the T1 does not.  I imagine if I got the T5p I might sell the 770/600 - but at the moment that is not something I plan.  I have never heard the T5p as of now, and given how much I like the Edition 8, my interest in the T5p is very small.  If they come out with a 600 ohm version, that I might be interested in

 

 

[Duncan]

As much as I should know better than to derail a thread, I have been following this one quite intently, and as such must thank Plainsong for the iPhone 4 EU volume info... Very helpful, now my iPhone is singing sweetly

I may be getting a pair of the Beyers in the next few days, though it seems concencus is that the T50 doesn't really excel compared to the Senn HD25, so am not 1000% sure...

Maybe this thread can convince me otherwise in the next few days

 

[mythless]

It could be me but does it seems as if the T50P needs a bit of a warm up time?

 

[Anaxilus]

Quote:

It could be me but does it seems as if the T50P needs a bit of a warm up time?

It is not just you or the T50P.  

 

[mythless]

lol...must be my turntable then!

 

[rasmushorn]

 
Quote:

It could be me but does it seems as if the T50P needs a bit of a warm up time?

I think you are right - they do take about 200-300 hours to warm up properly 

 

[Duncan]

Hmm...
 
Oh well, I've bitten the bullet, and ordered these...
 
If nothing else, even if they sound terrible (hoping not!), I can place them in my oddities corner, alongside the Sony PFR-V1 that I have gathering dust!
 
I'm guessing that I've just joined part of an elite club??
 
...All being well, I should have them tomorrow