Quote:
"Ear cup cushions not replaceable"
Oh there's some doozies in there. That may be one of the winners. My other favorite was: "To keep it short, I don't recommend the HD650 for professional tracking, mixing or mastering."
Which is very much on the contrary to a 2010 Sound on Sound (a well respected studio trade mag who's credibility is excellent) article, who rated the HD800 as their "1st place for Ultimate Quality -- At a Price" and proceeded to discuss how it was better than HD650 but that the diminishing returns are severe featuring quotes such as:
"only the seriously fanatical will feel comfortable justifying the considerable additional cost. The HD800 is undoubtedly more accurate and better built than the HD650, but not three times better than something that is probably already 95 percent of the way to perfection anyway."
and
"...but any sonic improvement over the HD650s is relatively small, as the latter already approach what’s possible, and the HD800s cost considerably more"
Finally from the K702 comparison:
"I didn’t detect quite the same detail in busier mixes as with the Sennheiser HD650s, but I’d happily mix with them"
That was from a professional trade mag reviewing quite a number of headphones specifically for the goal of tracking and mixing.
Kind of a big miss here, which is a shame. It was a golden opportunity to revisit serious discussion on serious high end headphones that have become lost in the trendier publications due to the awe over $1k+ elitism.