Eagle_Driver
Headphoneus Supremus
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Going back to the HD570 vs. HD590 debate:
Personally, I don't like either of those two headphones, especially for their current street prices. I strongly feel that both of those cans are outperformed by headphones from other brands costing half their prices. And neither of those two headphones is particularly efficient; in fact, the HD570 is especially inefficient (it needs lots of clean power just to be driven to adequately loud levels - and when underpowered, it sounds exceedingly bright).
Another major flaw in the design of both of those headphones is that the drivers end up being positioned way off axis even when properly worn. You can never get the drivers positioned anywhere near on-axis without major modifications to the headphones themselves. As a result, the sound from both of those Senns will be incoherent, murky and overbright all at once.
Why consider either of those when there are so many alternatives at their price points that perform much better? (But then again, 1999 - the year the HD570 and HD590 were introduced - was a particularly bad year for Sennheiser headphone designers; none of their 'phones that were introduced that year sound very good - and almost always sound worse than headphones that Sennheiser had introduced before or after that year.)
Personally, I don't like either of those two headphones, especially for their current street prices. I strongly feel that both of those cans are outperformed by headphones from other brands costing half their prices. And neither of those two headphones is particularly efficient; in fact, the HD570 is especially inefficient (it needs lots of clean power just to be driven to adequately loud levels - and when underpowered, it sounds exceedingly bright).
Another major flaw in the design of both of those headphones is that the drivers end up being positioned way off axis even when properly worn. You can never get the drivers positioned anywhere near on-axis without major modifications to the headphones themselves. As a result, the sound from both of those Senns will be incoherent, murky and overbright all at once.
Why consider either of those when there are so many alternatives at their price points that perform much better? (But then again, 1999 - the year the HD570 and HD590 were introduced - was a particularly bad year for Sennheiser headphone designers; none of their 'phones that were introduced that year sound very good - and almost always sound worse than headphones that Sennheiser had introduced before or after that year.)
