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What's your portable source? I find the huge 1/8 plug as the main annoying point portability wise. This makes it almost unusable with my iPhone 3G as it seriously seems as if one wrong move would do some bad damage to the headphone socket and the jack itself. Plus, since the jack for the 3G is at the top, when you hold it upright it feels as if the weight of the plug is causing stress to the jack. With all the reports over the last year of the plastic case of 3G eventually developing cracks (especially near the headphone jack), it's definitely not a risk I'm willing to take. With my S639 it's a bit better as the jack is at the bottom and the player is so light to begin with.
I also find the headphone itself too heavy to be portable, because you always feel that weight bearing down on you on top of the head. I've got more of an oval type of head instead of a flatter-top head so that could be another reason why this may annoy me more than others (also the reason why I absolutely could not live with the K701 headband bumps). The design of the headband (the mid part of the headband pressures the top of your head instead of wrapping around your head, like HD650 headband does) makes this worse for me as well. It's good if you can find it to be comfortable and convenient enough as a portable can, though, since it sounds great and does offer very good isolation.
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I'm using my N95 8GB with OGGPLAY as my source. I really have no complains of the SQ from it. Granted I think the socket doesn't fit straight because it has stripped all the gold off my SE530's 1/8 plug after about a year of usage.
The top of my head is mostly flat, use the ear pieces extended to '4' and other than this little gap from where my jaw jutts out, it is a pretty tight seal.
The first thing I've noticed about these HP were the comfort. Like people have been talking about it but you really feel that these could sit on your head forever. The clamping force is sufficient, but I have a hard time letting them wrap around my neck and just sit if I'm trying to talk to someone. Maybe this is because the only other big cans I own are my parent's 20 year old Sonys (model number to be dug up later), and I'd NEVER be able to wear those as portable..
Some people have complained about the cable, and initially when I read the spec it said 3m long. Which I was afraid of, like who the **** would want a spool of wire with them, but it's really not that bad since it's coiled. It sits about a meter long without tension, and I like the flexibility that the coil gives me as I can place my source in my bag and not worry about length when moving around and such.
As for the much talked about soundstage, I felt it is definitely there. Bass is not excessive but let's you know it's there. The majority of my listening consists of trance, and at times have really cool left right channel switching. I felt that they were able to faithfully reproduce the sounds enough for me to follow them from L to R and vice versa. I haven't heard many phones, hopefully at the next Edmonton meet I'll get a chance. But the sound is reminiscent of my SE530's.
