There are some pad swaps earlier in the thread if you are interested. It might give you some ideas.
Oh, I missed that. Thanks, @Bern2.
Post your thoughts once you've had some time with them. They didn't have enough low end for me and they didn't handle EQ well at all in that area.A bit late to the party but have a new pair HD630VB on the way....oddly it was my current interest in the Neumann NDH 20 & 30 that piqued my curiosity."Neumann’s engineers have supplied themselves with components on Sennheiser’s parts warehouse, when assembling NDH 20. The basic model is the now discontinued Sennheiser HD 630VB"
Obviously Axel Grell has tweaked his previous offspring for Neumann but all the same it will be interesting to hear how the HD630 compare with my current closed back in residence, the AKG K872 and Focal Eligia..... I'm thinking somewhere in the middle.
Will do...sorry no means for EQ in my setup as I just use CXN streamer, CXC CD transport and Bryston BHA-1 head-amp...and if there is a tad more base than the HD660S and HD800S,which I expect they will, they should be fine for me.
Ok...HD630VB are in da house
....not too sure what I was expecting and will obviously will need to listen more.. running off the Bryston BHA-1 and Cambridge CXN II, so far a little ho-hum....they don't really hold a candle to the AKG K872, also a closed back, which have so much more information, sounding harmonically richer, more spacious with layering and depth. Also the HD630VB with their crisper and less involving sound are completely different from the HD800s, really no family resemblance and probably an even farther departure from the HD660S which I'll compare later this evening.
A better pairing was the FiiO X3 and probably more in line with their intended purpose and where the Variable Base may serve a better purpose ....
Now these are a new an unopened box and it is quite possible the drivers may need to loosen up a tad after sitting around a few years so I'll leave them playing unattended at higher volumes for the rest of the day.....
Keep in mind I recently had unfavourable impressions on the Focal Elegia, but warmed up to them after a few days or so ....but curiosity may have killed the cat on these : ( .........
Something unrelated to the sound... the rubber for the function round, volume up/down, pause etc is very gummy so that my finger actually sticks to it..anyone with experience or has the rubber started to disintegrate somewhat like my HD800S cables????
I may need to recant my previous observations..have the HD630VB in the shop with me playing Tidal Hi-Fi off an IMAC connected to an older NAD receiver and within a few hours the sound has opened up nicely, a little bit fuller, less sterile if I may say so but still very crisp and clear.
) The box has like 5 layers of barcode stickers, so who knows where it came from and where it's been lol.
Interesting..as mentioned above, listening to Planet Drum there is almost too much deep low end.... even with the dial at minimum..????
