[80smusicboy]

  Bingo!  That's how I would describe them, and relate them to the bigger/better/everything HD600, too.  

It's that Sennheiser "naturalness" of the sound. These are a bit bassy but they still manage to keep that sweet timbre and the soundstage is quite good for such a small headphone.
And I got them for what I'd call dirt cheap, 32€ delivered. Amazing value!

 

[StanD]

  Has anyone here heard the HD598 and can contrast them with the HD600?

 
 

  Aside from the electrical differences of impedance and the HD5xx being more sensitive, they sound similar, however, the HD600 gets the IMO win. The HD600's have less distortion, which may not be audible to most people. To me I prefer the HD600's FR and better bass quality.The HD598 and the HD558 are excellent values should one have a budget constraint, one cannot go wrong. There is an easy Black Foam Tape mod for the HD558 that can be done in a scant few minutes.
The HD5xx can be easily driven by an amp/smartphone/DAP having an output impedance of 2.25 Ohms or less.

 
 

  I posted a comparison a while back between the HD598 and the HD600 in the HD598 thread.  My conclusions pretty much echo StanD's.

Spoiler: Comparison text:

 
 

What can I say, other than "Great minds think alike." 

 

[allets]

I finally ripped a part of the HD600 that's not the cable. The foams. I reattached the earcups without the foams and it's weird... still enjoyable though. Need replacements as soon as possible.

 

[Syan25]

how did you manage that?? my goodness

 

[allets]

Don't be so surprised my friend. This HD600 has been through some real hardship. I was intoxicated and woke up next to a disassembled HD600 with half chewed foams.

 

[ProtegeManiac]

  I finally ripped a part of the HD600 that's not the cable. The foams. I reattached the earcups without the foams and it's weird... still enjoyable though. Need replacements as soon as possible.

 
You can get them from Sennheiser. Alternately, some people have used that black thing girls use on their legs, but I imagine all it will do is keep out debris, not getting the same sound as voiced by Sennheiser engineers with the denser foam cover.

 

[allets]

   
You can get them from Sennheiser. Alternately, some people have used that black thing girls use on their legs, but I imagine all it will do is keep out debris, not getting the same sound as voiced by Sennheiser engineers with the denser foam cover.

Do you mean like, pantyhose, those garments? And they say the HD600 aren't sexy headphones...

 

[diaBoliQu3]

  Do you mean like, pantyhose, those garments? And they say the HD600 aren't sexy headphones...

 
This is not what I imagined, HD600 and pantyhose.

 
BTW, bought pantyhose few years back for my PC fan filter and the way that lady cashier look at me is... I don't how to explain.

 

[allets]

 
 
This is not what I imagined, HD600 and pantyhose.

 
BTW, bought pantyhose few years back for my PC fan filter and the way that lady cashier look at me is... I don't how to explain.

Haha! You made my day man. I needed a bit of that (not the mantyhose... the hilarious story that is)
 
Edit: He does look awfully comfortable though.

 

[ProtegeManiac]

  Do you mean like, pantyhose, those garments? And they say the HD600 aren't sexy headphones...

 
Yeah, those, or as I remember now, stockings. Speaking of stockings, somewhere on this forum is this exchange:

"What is the finish called on the HD600?" (sic)
"It's called 'the 80s." (sic)
 
I don't know what the general public remembers about "sexy" back in the 1980s (Madonna?), but being a kid then didn't stop me from remember how these go together: stockings (with holes), leather, dancing poles, Motley Crue. My friends had to confront aging in the most pathetic way: me singing "Girls! Girls! Girls!" at a stag party and the strippers (who by the way were 24, 25, and 27) had no freaking clue what the heck I was singing, and none of them had no "red lips, (nor) fingertips"

 

[CADCAM]

  I posted a comparison a while back between the HD598 and the HD600 in the HD598 thread.  My conclusions pretty much echo StanD's.

Spoiler: Comparison text:

 
 

Thanks for that, looks like I may be better off passing on the HD600 as I did not enjoy the HD598. 

 

[diaBoliQu3]

  Haha! You made my day man. I needed a bit of that (not the mantyhose... the hilarious story that is)
 
Edit: He does look awfully comfortable though.

Well, it's 0100 hour at my place and this photo refresh my eyes too. Haha!
 
BTW, I reckon the comfortable part. As comfy as listening from HD600.

And I never wear pantyhose.

 

[allets]

 
Well, it's 0100 hour at my place and this photo refresh my eyes too. Haha!
 
BTW, I reckon the comfortable part. As comfy as listening from HD600.

And I never wear pantyhose.

That's like the coolest thing I've ever read that also doesn't make any sense to me at all. I'm two hours ahead though and it's cool. I am going to buy a mantyhose tomorrow for my listening room.

 

[Dark_wizzie]

 
Well, it's 0100 hour at my place and this photo refresh my eyes too. Haha!
 
BTW, I reckon the comfortable part. As comfy as listening from HD600.

And I never wear pantyhose.

Crossdressers unite!
Oh wait, wrong forum LOL. Cashiers are often too tired to care what you buy or too used to crazier things happening at a store to really respond to whatever you decide to buy from my experience. If the cashier is looking at you weird, odds are you were the one acting awkward/nervous/oddly. Could've just assumed it was for a girlfriend or something too.
 
I still have no idea how we ended up at this part of the discussion.

 

[Billheiser]

Don't be so surprised my friend. This HD600 has been through some real hardship. I was intoxicated and woke up next to a disassembled HD600 with half chewed foams.

That's the best explanation for anything ever.