shabta
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The only difference between Sorrodje and me is that on some tracks I said the bass sounded slightly more extended. Since he didn't hear those particular tracks, has a different, possibly less resolving amp, two different pairs of headphones, there are any number of explanations for this extremely small difference in reports. In terms of bass quantity, we seem to say exactly the same thing.
As far as other reported differences, i don't think there is much to conclude. Sennheiser is pretty opaque about their measurement methodology and if the methodology has been the same through the entire run of headphones. I can say that when others have independently measured pairs HD800 headphones and compared; they measured pretty much the same, old vs. new etc. So much so, that differences should be inaudible. (This was true even when the Senn supplied graphs were a bit different). Some people still claim they hear differences, but independent measurements, so far has not corroborated those alleged differences. It is still possible that there is significant model variation that is somewhat rare. Perhaps if measurements were taken on some other HD800s where people heard differences, those differences would be independently confirmed. But AFAIK that has not happened yet.
The bass on the HD800 is quite good. The bass on the S hits a little harder, and that is consistent so far with everyone who has heard the S, except for possibly bmichel ( who didn't say anything about the Bass). Perhaps he could elaborate more on whether they in fact heard no difference or if it was that the difference between the two headphones was smaller than hoped. It wasn't clear from what he wrote. Hope this makes things a bit less cloudy.
Anyway, it sounds like you have some good cans to listen to!
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