Mormonsloot
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Sennheiser would be smart to move the production of this product from Ireland to China. China has cheap labor, and would build the HD 25's with cheaper, less durable parts, and still charge the same price. $$$$$PROFITS$$$$$
Sennheiser - WAKE UP and smell the coffee. If you follow the lead of these incredibly small Korean, Chinese iem companies you will see they build their plastic product for a few bucks and then charge 10x the price retail to hungry consumers who frequent this board who are "convinced" they sound better than a $10 pair of earbuds. A win win for everybody involved.
Until then, I will not buy another pair of these "German-Irish" headphones.
You have seen when the original date the thread was started haven't you? That's not bad going really. I would use mine more but I need better isolation and need to wear glasses at work so it's back to iems.
Before this post there was 3 weeks and 1 day with nothing being posted.
That's definitely a lack of appreciation for these marvellous portable cans. Released back in the late 80's in their original guise, there's still little to compete with them today in terms of what they do.
Not so sure about that...
VMODA M80, Momentum, Phiaton MS400, for consumers
DT1350, TMA-1 for professional use
Iz all about preference my friend
I will agree with you on the Beyerdynamic DT1350, it's next on my shopping list for a portable headphone. However when I heard it it did some things a bit better than the HD 25, but equally it did some things not quite as well. Overall it was impressive, but on the whole not really an improvement on the HD 25, just an alternative, which considering the development time of 20 years to acheive this in the same form factor as the HD 25 is disappointing.
Well, all you've done is give me a list of modern headphones that, in your opinion, are now beginning to compete with a headphone that was designed over 20 years ago.
That said your decision to include the Momentum is somewhat in error IMO. It's a lifestyle product and as such has bling factor, but is nothing more than ordinary in the sound department, choosing to cater for those who are of the fashionable opinion that more bass means good. It's not even in the same league as the HD 25 in terms of detail, transparency and pace - I know, I own both.
I will agree with you on the Beyerdynamic DT1350, it's next on my shopping list for a portable headphone. However when I heard it it did some things a bit better than the HD 25, but equally it did some things not quite as well. Overall it was impressive, but on the whole not really an improvement on the HD 25, just an alternative, which considering the development time of 20 years to acheive this in the same form factor as the HD 25 is disappointing.
I can't comment on the other headphones that you mentioned as I've not heard them personally
Admittedly the fact is that dynamic driver technology moves slowly, and has been well understood for longer than half a century. That really means that we're unlikely to see any stellar improvements in the technology when taken in comparison with the advancement we see with digital products. So my comments above may be a little unfair (except for my comments on the Momentum - I hate that thing)