[Music Alchemist]

  Yeah but, see, you said if nobody wants it you'll keep it. But me and him want it, so I'll bid $2! 

 
Oh, you jokesters. I meant if no one gives me a good offer.

 

[TRapz]

   
Oh, you jokesters. I meant if no one gives me a good offer.

Fine, I'll offer you $5.
 
 
YKYAAW you can't buy headphones for $5

 

[Music Alchemist]

  Fine, I'll offer you $5.
 
YKYAAW you can't buy headphones for $5

 
You could always sell some of your stuff...but it's a rather desirable collector's item, so it may be gone before then.

 

[TRapz]

   
You could always sell some of your stuff...but it's a rather desirable collector's item, so it may be gone before then.

I'm kidding 

 I'm in the market for an open-backed headphone, but I think I'll be keeping my old Shure SRH440s for recording purposes, and the rest of my stuff is mostly new and stuff I use. I shouldn't need anything more than $100, and I probably wouldn't be able to drive the HD590s anyways (those are 300 ohms, right?). I wanted HD558s, but the price has gone up by about $40 recently, and I don't see why; for $10 more now, you could get the HD598.  

 

[Music Alchemist]

  I'm kidding 

 I'm in the market for an open-backed headphone, but I think I'll be keeping my old Shure SRH440s for recording purposes, and the rest of my stuff is mostly new and stuff I use. I shouldn't need anything more than $100, and I probably wouldn't be able to drive the HD590s anyways (those are 300 ohms, right?). I wanted HD558s, but the price has gone up by about $40 recently, and I don't see why; for $10 more now, you could get the HD598.  

 
The HD 590 is 120 ohms.
 
Here are the lowest prices I see on Amazon:
 
HD 558 new: $125
HD 558 used: $82
HD 598 new: $144
HD 598 used: $122
 
If you search the for sale forums here, there are probably even better deals.
 
Oh, and I'm not sure how the 598 and 558 compare; I only heard the 558.

 

[Dobrescu George]

   
The HD 590 is 120 ohms.
 
Here are the lowest prices I see on Amazon:
 
HD 558 new: $125
HD 558 used: $82
HD 598 new: $144
HD 598 used: $122
 
If you search the for sale forums here, there are probably even better deals.
 
Oh, and I'm not sure how the 598 and 558 compare; I only heard the 558.

you are going to have a very hard time making a difference between the two. the entire 5XX series, [new ones] sound pretty much the same, no matter how you look at it. bet bid would be the most expensive, but even in a very quiet listening room, where i was totally alone, with my player, i had a hard time making a difference. they all have the same driver, so the only difference is the cups, and how they are opened.

 

[Skyliner]

YKYAAW the YKYAAW thread ot's into a Sennheiser discussion and everyone's cool with that.

 

[TRapz]

  you are going to have a very hard time making a difference between the two. the entire 5XX series, [new ones] sound pretty much the same, no matter how you look at it. bet bid would be the most expensive, but even in a very quiet listening room, where i was totally alone, with my player, i had a hard time making a difference. they all have the same driver, so the only difference is the cups, and how they are opened.

Even the HD518? It's a lot cheaper ($80 vs $140 for an HD558), but I assumed it wouldn't be up to par with the others in the series, it having seemingly been the least popular of them.

 

[PalJoey]

YKYAAW you issue a fatwa against Audio Note for not making a portable, headphone-oriented Ongaku.

 

[Music Alchemist]

  you are going to have a very hard time making a difference between the two. the entire 5XX series, [new ones] sound pretty much the same, no matter how you look at it. bet bid would be the most expensive, but even in a very quiet listening room, where i was totally alone, with my player, i had a hard time making a difference. they all have the same driver, so the only difference is the cups, and how they are opened.

 
You're generalizing. Perhaps a few models in the 5XX line fit some of your description, but certainly not all. I doubt any of them really sound the same.

 

[TRapz]

I don't quite know where to ask this and don't want to make a new thread here, but does anyone think Neil Young might show up on Head-Fi at some point? His Pono player just came out (I think? Or is coming out?), and it would be cool to see him around here. Even more awesome to talk to him. 

 

[Skyliner]

YKYAAW you issue a fatwa against Audio Note for not making a portable, headphone-oriented Ongaku.

To drive your Shindo 9nines pcocc Ag earspeakers?

 

[Dobrescu George]

i listened to 5XX series, 598 und 558, and they sounded the same. exactly. 518 i am not sure if i tried, but i understood that the drivers should be the same. there were some threads around for drivers on that series that prooven this point. i promise to listen when i will go to audio shop to see how is it.

 

[Music Alchemist]

YKYAAW you notice a slew of original STAX SR-007s being sold on the for sale forum.
 

  i listened to 5XX series, 598 und 558, and they sounded the same. exactly. 518 i am not sure if i tried, but i understood that the drivers should be the same. there were some threads around for drivers on that series that prooven this point. i promise to listen when i will go to audio shop to see how is it.

 
What do you mean by "5XX series"? If you mean all the Sennheiser models that are called HD 500-something, then they definitely do not all sound the same - or at least the 590 and 558 don't. What you really mean is that on the systems you used, with the songs you heard, with whatever headphones you heard, you did not hear a difference. Other people have.
 
Now that I think about it, the way you worded it may just mean that you only heard those two headphones. That is not the entire 5XX series. They have many, many headphones in that series, and some of them are well known to sound quite different. So the most you can say is that those two didn't sound different to you.

 

[TRapz]

 
What do you mean by "5XX series"? If you mean all the Sennheiser models that are called HD 500-something, then they definitely do not all sound the same - or at least the 590 and 558 don't. What you really mean is that on the systems you used, with the songs you heard, with whatever headphones you heard, you did not hear a difference. Other people have.
 
Now that I think about it, the way you worded it may just mean that you only heard those two headphones. That is not the entire 5XX series. They have many, many headphones in that series, and some of them are well known to sound quite different. So the most you can say is that those two didn't sound different to you.

I believe he means the current line of HD5XX headphones, the ones still in production. I know for sure those have the same drivers, but I was pretty sure the differently designed housings made a big difference in the sound, as it should.