My second pair of HD58X arrived a few days ago. I have yet to unbox them. For the price I paid for two, I would have gladly bought just the one, if these costed twice as much.
Last night I had a monster marathon gaming session playing The Last of Us Remastered on the PS4 using the HD58X (Fireflies better be at the hospital...oh no...Zombies everywhere! Crap! Oh well, should probably get some sleep).
I would have defaulted to the K701 if not for the HD58X. I am not a competitive gamer...I suck at that, I keep dying by mysterious assassin's within milliseconds of starting a game (although in real life, I am an accurate shooter with cardio to sprint after prey and, yet still, hold a rifle steady). Therefore whatever competitive gamers require from a headphone I do not know.
However for the casual gaming I do, I want immersion. The HD58X seem to pinpoint sounds better than the K701. More importantly, the sounds of the world just comes alive with HD58X. The frequency response is just more realistic than the K701. The chirps of birds are pristine and sharp, even though the headphone is not bright. It's more convincing than the K701. The HD650 won't even try to chirp correctly, it's a bit too dull. Flies buzzing around also sound more convincing - we all know that familiar sound of a fly buzzing past our ears.
I work in QA. In my day job, I use more than two decades of professional experience to feel for vibrations in my bum, back, feet and hands. Whilst concurrently listening to and pin pointing sounds and harmonics. This is my primary function. I sign off the entire production line prior to customer collection based in this expertise. This is my fundamental and primary function, what I was employed to do. Test drive.
I am a human version of one of these. My vision sense whilst analysis is being carried is used merely to keep the car on the road and is of little use at this stage of the diagnostic procedure.
What headphone in my collection could accurately replicate the sounds I experience?
2 headphones I will reference.
The LCD2 to reproduce the sound of a top fuel dragster. This is unheard of in my Hi-Fi experience.
The HD58X to reproduce the sounds of a Formula one car. The combination of bass sounds as the engine climbs into a screaming 20,000 rpms...at least the days before turbo.
These two headphones also make sense to me and the sounds I heard when in my youth I played the drums. A most memorable time of my life where I was not only inside the music, but at one with the music. When I had played live on stage numerous times and rehearsed countless times in the music room...which had a massive safe-like entry door and sound absorption everywhere.
The general purpose reference of my HD650 is no longer required. I find the HD58X to be far more versatile, in audio quality and convenience factors.
To me, it's the HD650 that is jack of all trades, master of none. The HD58X also fill that duty quite well, although I hear it as very masterful at uppermid resolution. Best in my collection. Where they lack, My LCD2 surpass anything...that acoustic sound...measured low distortion as low as the best and unsurpassed in bass.
Nevertheless in many recordings, the HD58X is arguably the best headphone I have ever owned.
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