Novice2020
Head-Fier
Guys sorry for asking it again, what is good/best 4.4 balanced cable for sundara with fast shipping?
Sorry for the late impressions, customers bought out my first batch of sundaras before i could test them! Back in stock, better late than never. Tried out the Sundaras for an extended period today with the ifi Nano dsd Black Label, and was perhaps a little let down as I had very very high expectations for this headphone.
Very balanced tuning with an unfortunate edge towards 6k. To my surprise, side by side with the HD660S, I found myself preferring the HD660S in every scenario paired up with the ifi. HD660S also sounds decent straight through subpar devices, whereas the Sundara is very thin sounding and requires an amp.
Over all, Sennheiser sounded a tad bit more musical and less peaky, which really surprised me coming into this. The Sundara is faster in the bass, less mid bassy with slight more attack. Not as smooth.
Note the black label is forward sounding so I think the Sundara paired up with warmer electronics could be a sweet little set up. Just don’t expect these to compare to Mrspeakers Aeons guys!
A bit surprising since the M500 seems to have adequate watts overhead to get you to very loud volumes. If you were really looking for mainly the bass region to reach a certain level with the Sundara and increasing the volume gets you there, maybe the Sundara does not have the quantity of bass you're looking for with its stock tuning so you might need to use EQ instead.The Sundara is slightly hard to drive from the M500, so I connected my JDS Labs Atom amp and that drives the Sundara in high gain mode perfectly for me. I do listen to my music loud and volume knob cranked to 2'oclock position gives me the loudness I desire with adequate bass
Equalizer APO + Peace GUI is the common parametric EQ used for Windows.I do see that people recommending EQuing for more bass. What software Equalizer do people mostly use here?
Assuming both SE and balanced have equal distortion peaking numbers, the most you'd get is an increased volume overhead when using balanced.I'd still like a real-world opinion for both SE and balanced
That was something i read also Tyll review was a disaster and the worst i have seen. Dont know why he do it and what was the purpose of this bad review.Wouldn't expect a $499 headphone to compare to a $799 headphone .Obviously. You seem to like the HD-660s. Tyll in his review trashed them and stated ' replacing the HD-650 with the HD-660s is a disaster'. That's his exact quote .He also states that they are 'screechy' and they have poor resolution . And you think the HD-660s is better than Sundara? Ok.
How do these compared about warmness on midrange soundstage and fastness ? I.never heard Aeons closed or not.Well I had both Aeons and Sundara and I much more prefer the musicality of Sundara to Aeon (closed).
driving off a cliff no doubtI've heard of people driving the Sundara with a smartphone, so not sure how any amp worth its salt would struggle...
Not true... I have LG v30 with sabre and with high gain mod the sound is loud but thin.I've heard of people driving the Sundara with a smartphone, so not sure how any amp worth its salt would struggle...
For example hd660 and 650 on sabre LG v30 no high gain mod need it because it unlocks the high gain it sound great and full sundara dont.
I dont have other planars to make a test... But i will in some days on 400i 2020.
Thats what i said it doesnt need the mod...for hd 6 series and it does need mod for Sundara and there is only 1 way without mess up with software... So again with mod high gain its Not enough for Sundara... The same with V40 .There are several ways to make the v30 think it's in high gain mod. Check google.
I have a v40 and I was shocked that anyone thinks the chip sounds good direct. Yucko. Great as a streamer however