mamamia88
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Speaking of cables, I am waiting this pure silver (eight conductors!) goddess to arrive.
Care to share more info?
Speaking of cables, I am waiting this pure silver (eight conductors!) goddess to arrive.
When I got my replacement ear cups for my sennheiser hd518 I had to use double sided tape to put it on lol.
I got these from a guy from eBay... LokAren't they just supposed to snap in? I haven't needed to replace mine yet.
I got these from a guy from eBay... Lok
Thought I'd share some music that really highlights the strengths of the 558's I just picked up.
http://clevergirl.bandcamp.com/releases
Thanks for sharing
I have to commend these headphones for what they do. I don't have good headphones to pair them to, but one of my friends helped me get a pair of HD 518's and at first they sounded pretty great compared to what I used to listen to with headphones that have little impedance and are cheapos at around 5-30 bucks. So, directly speaking I come from the land of cruddy earbuds and headphones who's audio quality is so vastly inferior to these.
After breaking them, and understanding the music I listen to and setting EQ adjustments as needed in Foobar 2000 with a downloaded 30-band EQ to it, they sounded alot better. After they broke in more I was blown away.
My friend walked me through the process of carefully removing the grill, and the soundstage actually opened up a little bit more, but at the cost of noticeably loosing a little of it's lower-mid & lower frequency ranges.
I concluded that the 518s midrange and treble were dissected by the headphones and presented so very well that I felt only minor EQ adjustments were needed, the only thing that may need a real boost was the bass which the added EQ to Foobar I got provided, without distortion thanks to a gain control function it now has. Bass boosting was still a little more on the minor side though, as I didn't want to be flexing the speakers so much from bass that it would drown out the midrange and treb freqs.
So I'm extremely happy with the purchase we made on these, and I don't think I can look back and settle for less.
On another note, I'm currently looking for a headphone amp for these 518's since they're around 60 Ohms. My little 7 year old Altec Lansing 2.0's just died (They actually didn't even sound bad, they were pretty good sounding even though they had no bass) and they don't carry on right-channel audio through it's speaker or to the headphones, which I relied on them to power my Senns since they have built in amps.
So if anyone has any recommendations on great amps to pair with the 5xx series it would help alot, can't be above 120 bucks though. Not sure why any amp has to be expensive either, all it's doing is just amplifying the signal. Though, preferably one that boosts the lower end freqs a bit more too, since the Senns design makes them naturally bass-lacking