Hello, recently I pulled the trigger on DT880 600Ohm and matched it with the lovely Feliks Echo II with upgrade tubes. I can tell the Echo is a spectacular amp, but I feel like DT880 is just not entirely my cup of tea. It sounds great with classical music, but I also listen to a lot of jazz/funk music and DT880 is not competent enough in bass department for my taste, also I would like a bit more meat in the midrange and calmer treble. I listened to HD600 and 650 numerous times and they never blew me away, I thought they sounded ok. A bit claustrophobic and lackluster bass, IIRC still more meaty than DT880 tho. But I heard that 6X0 line transforms into entirely different headphones with OTL amps and I've never listened to them that way. Does it really make such significant difference to open the soundstage up and bring up the bass?
I'm still worried a bit about imaging, because I listen to a lot of symphonic music and headphones like Sundara are pretty terrible at that as they have literally zero imaging and separation. AFAIK HD6X0 are not great at that either.
Another route without overcomplicating things is to go for something like Focal Clear which I love, I could pair it with Topping MX3s which I'm not able to sell anyway. I assume such cans could outperform Sennies even on worse amp. I'll just add that M1570 was the perfect headphone for me SQ-wise, but I had to sell them due to their weight.
What would be your advice? Sennies and Beyers have been on my radar because recently I became more interested in headphones that were built to last, unlike most planar cans, even though they do not hold that well against modern competition soundwise.
I'm still worried a bit about imaging, because I listen to a lot of symphonic music and headphones like Sundara are pretty terrible at that as they have literally zero imaging and separation. AFAIK HD6X0 are not great at that either.
Another route without overcomplicating things is to go for something like Focal Clear which I love, I could pair it with Topping MX3s which I'm not able to sell anyway. I assume such cans could outperform Sennies even on worse amp. I'll just add that M1570 was the perfect headphone for me SQ-wise, but I had to sell them due to their weight.
What would be your advice? Sennies and Beyers have been on my radar because recently I became more interested in headphones that were built to last, unlike most planar cans, even though they do not hold that well against modern competition soundwise.