stasaki90
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I have no problems with mine
On my HDVD 800 there's a tiny bit of channel imbalance at the lowest levels of volume, but it's only at the very bottom of the scale. If I turn the knob up just a little bit the channels become balanced like they should, and I can only hear the imbalance if I'm using headphones with high sensitivity like the Kef M500. It might be that there's inconsistent quality on the potentiometers and that you happened to get a knob with more imbalance than it should have.
Maybe it's the amp's problem since your 800 also got this problem.
From what I understand (feel free to correct me!) you will always have a point near the bottom of the volume scale on analogue "infinite resolution" knobs like this where there's a bit of imbalance. To alleviate this issue the gain on the amp should be done in such a way that the user won't have any reason to use the range where this would be noticeable. I assume Sennheiser tweaked the gain specifically for the HD 800 as you'd struggle to hear that point even in a dead silent room when using the HD 800. In my experience the amount of gain works well with every headphone I've tried, even though you can hear that little bit of imbalance with the more sensitive types. The only way to avoid this with analogue volume control is to use stepped attenuators, which in turn have their own problems as you're adjusting the volume in fixed steps and don't have the same precise control over volume as with the other kind. Another way to get around it is to use digital volume control, but that almost seems like heresy for a audiophile product.
every thing sounds better using the balanced cable,some people will say it just sounds louder,but it's not ture,it just sounds better in every way,it needs burning in like the original cable did.ask 2 demo it first if u can,u will hear the difference straight away.Does anyone bought a HD800 original balalced cable and used it on HDVD800? How is that cable counds?
it needs burning in like the original cable did.