bagwell359
Headphoneus Supremus
I've got into moding these recently. Dynamat and felt. No holes blocked. The dynamat helps dampen the mid/upper bass. LESS BASS ! Oh yes, but cleaner, faster, less veiled. Felt? Cuts back on reflections which in a headphone tend to be much higher in percentage than what can be found in a properly treated room. Increases clarity, tends to drop incidance the occasional sharpness/light presentation that they can be guilty of.
I took off the sponge barrier covering the driver from the ear. An instant dose of clarity, but, the possible contact of the ear and the driver makes you wonder. I went to using a HFM dust barrier, lightly glued over the cut out edges of the sponge. That seemed to give more than 1/2 the clarity of no sponge, but more safety, and the edges of the sponge keeps the pads at the 'proper' distance.
Listening last night the clarity from 60 Hz -> 1.5kHz was so marked. The four big differences between the 600 and my favored HE-500 was the:
* sound stage was deeper and much wider on the 500 over the 600
* volume on bass under 200 Hz favors the HE-500, but, the 600 is generally quicker - but very quick drum strikes in some cases were very constrained on the 600
* cymbals overtones go on forever on the 500's (yes, planar drivers don't stop that fast), 600's don't. Truth is probably closer to 600, but they stop faster than they should based on decades of listening to near SOTA speakers (of all technologies) with the same recordings.
* certain instruments (percussive mostly) have a certain plastic character on the 600, also the image size seemed too small (even taking consideration that the 500 is bigger than 600). I should have taken notes. I will when get back from my vacation.
Heard more classic cans lately, and the HD-600 and HE-500 still sit at the apex in terms of quality/price in the used market - and they compliment each other well.
I took off the sponge barrier covering the driver from the ear. An instant dose of clarity, but, the possible contact of the ear and the driver makes you wonder. I went to using a HFM dust barrier, lightly glued over the cut out edges of the sponge. That seemed to give more than 1/2 the clarity of no sponge, but more safety, and the edges of the sponge keeps the pads at the 'proper' distance.
Listening last night the clarity from 60 Hz -> 1.5kHz was so marked. The four big differences between the 600 and my favored HE-500 was the:
* sound stage was deeper and much wider on the 500 over the 600
* volume on bass under 200 Hz favors the HE-500, but, the 600 is generally quicker - but very quick drum strikes in some cases were very constrained on the 600
* cymbals overtones go on forever on the 500's (yes, planar drivers don't stop that fast), 600's don't. Truth is probably closer to 600, but they stop faster than they should based on decades of listening to near SOTA speakers (of all technologies) with the same recordings.
* certain instruments (percussive mostly) have a certain plastic character on the 600, also the image size seemed too small (even taking consideration that the 500 is bigger than 600). I should have taken notes. I will when get back from my vacation.
Heard more classic cans lately, and the HD-600 and HE-500 still sit at the apex in terms of quality/price in the used market - and they compliment each other well.