bkchurch
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So awhile back I was considering adding my second pair of cans to my Head-Fi collection. I've had my Proline 750s for four years and I love them. They're the cans that got me into the whole Head-Fi thing and arguably the first piece of high quality audio equipment I'd ever owned. So I decided it was time to add an open can to my collection and the HD 598 seemed to fit the bill. Not long after I made this decision some stuff happened that made it economically not feasible.
So these days I've been thinking it might be worth it to part ways with the Ultrasones and get the 598s instead. My listening habits involve a lot of gaming, so a really open soundstage would be welcome, and an eclectic taste in music that has a habit of jumping from The Beatles to Disturbed to Skrillex to Frank Sinatra (so basically if it's music I listen to it). They aren't going to see any use with movies, I'm fine with my rinky dink 5.1 system for that. Sources at the moment consist of the straight output on my iMac but I am going to be getting an Astro Mixamp in the near future and using it with my PS3/360/PC (the PC being the source of music (Spotify and high bitrate MP3s in foobar with WASAPI and the occasional FLAC)).
I really love the 750s sound signature. The bass especially is absolutely phenomenal. But they're also rather uncomfortable in long listening sessions and I'd guess can't match the soundstage of an open can. Isolation isn't really a big deal since these are going to find a lot use while in solidarity and probably never leave the house.
So anyway that's probably a lot more than I needed to say to boil down to: Is it worth it to sell my Proline 750 for a Senn 598? What would I be losing? What would I be gaining? Should I just enjoy 750s and buy the 598s when I have the money or should I sell the 750s for the 598s and move onto bigger and better things when I have money to spend on headphones in the future?
So these days I've been thinking it might be worth it to part ways with the Ultrasones and get the 598s instead. My listening habits involve a lot of gaming, so a really open soundstage would be welcome, and an eclectic taste in music that has a habit of jumping from The Beatles to Disturbed to Skrillex to Frank Sinatra (so basically if it's music I listen to it). They aren't going to see any use with movies, I'm fine with my rinky dink 5.1 system for that. Sources at the moment consist of the straight output on my iMac but I am going to be getting an Astro Mixamp in the near future and using it with my PS3/360/PC (the PC being the source of music (Spotify and high bitrate MP3s in foobar with WASAPI and the occasional FLAC)).
I really love the 750s sound signature. The bass especially is absolutely phenomenal. But they're also rather uncomfortable in long listening sessions and I'd guess can't match the soundstage of an open can. Isolation isn't really a big deal since these are going to find a lot use while in solidarity and probably never leave the house.
So anyway that's probably a lot more than I needed to say to boil down to: Is it worth it to sell my Proline 750 for a Senn 598? What would I be losing? What would I be gaining? Should I just enjoy 750s and buy the 598s when I have the money or should I sell the 750s for the 598s and move onto bigger and better things when I have money to spend on headphones in the future?