QueueCumber
100+ Head-Fier
Not a fan of the Stellia. IMHO, 820 is a much better sounding headphone across the board....
"reading the web" and "many people" can mean hype.
I wasn't a big fan of the Stellia, I had it for a few weeks and posted my brief opinion here in the HD820 thread a few months ago.
Basically, it's no Utopia at all (great phone) and the bass was uncontrolled, even driven balanced with my Luxman.
Yes, my sample was burned-in. And it looks damn bling, not my style.
So my opinion: you'll add 1000 and lose the better phone.
And there will be different and contradictory opinions of course.
AppleheadMay, how are you finding the HD820 with your P-750u? I have the same amp and am considering the HD820.
I’m kind of in agreement with this. I’ve pad roll on a few of my headphones and always came back to the stock version or an alternate pad offered by the manufacturer. It’s much easier to EQ than roll pads to get a certain sound signature, but others may feel differently.
The HD820’s offers outstanding sound quality. It just needs a little more clamp force to improve the seal.
Does anyone know the method that Sennheiser recommends to improve the clamps force? Thanks in advance!
Yeah, I think the bad clamping force comes down to the loose connections between headband and yoke. Everything is just floppy. If the headband and yoke were tighter and more solid, you'd get better clamp force.
I just tried the HD820 - thankfully my German head seems to fit nicely into the German headphone-shape- that headphone is endgame (for me) WOW!! Can't wait feeding it with my balanced setup (waiting for 4.4mm to XLR adapter) but wow - this is a full on new toy syndrome - I didn't expect that, since I had the HD800S at home for a couple of weeks from a friend but the 820 is way more up my alley.
Am in heaven....
Weird. Maybe it's your specific market. Here in the USA, it comes with three cables: 1/4", 4.4mm, and XLR. But looking on the USA website, it doesn't mention the XLR cable anymore. I wonder if they stopped including it. I just bought my HD820 within the last two months and it came with all three though...