GoodBoy
100+ Head-Fier
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Longer cable gives better sound, at least that is the case with all my 599 units I've tested. Try it yourself for comparison sake. Buying short decent quality cable is a good idea, but for now I'm using 3m cable provided in the packaging with adapter. Bit long, but I shortened it with velcro strap. Night and day difference in terms of sound performance.That's very interesting and surprising... I use the thin 3.5mm-1.2m long cable with my HD599s. So you mean the cable which plugs one end into the headphones (locks in place) and the other end is 3.5mm? Cuz I can't use 6.3mm and the adapter that came with it broke easily. I don't know what cable I could buy to replace the one I'm using. It's also been tangled. I use that thin and short 3.5mm cable and it's attached to a unknown brand 3.5mm extension cable, which plugs into my desktop PC's front/top audio panel. I think they sound great, could perhaps benefit from a better cable or DAC/AMP though... I don't know. But I've been satisfied with my HD599s. It's true that the bass is warm/natural/boomy, instead of punchy and hard-kicking (depending on the song of course but in general). I don't know where to get a good quality cable for my HD599s in Europe, can anyone help? One that plugs into the headphones with the other end being 3.5mm, and not very short (or if it's short then I'll need to use an extension cable with it). I'd like to buy one, even if it won't improve the sound too much. Because the one that came with the headphones has gotten tangled/worn out.
I've listened to boomy 599 and I've listened to the ones with more punchy tihgher bass.The boomy ones have such bass that is overpowering the whole music making microdetails that much less noticable. Great for movies though, but for music I couldn't listen to them for long as it got me headaches. Unfortunetly I had to send back the best sounding pair because of the factory scratch and deformed grill on one of the cups. Now I have somewhat worse balanced pairs might end up returning both of them, might keep one which is not that bad, but worse than the strached one. I'm getting fed up with all of that return-order-return-order hassle, drives me nuts... :/
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