Sennhiesser HD 590 / 650 Headphones
Discussion
I haven't had or used the 650's, but i have just bought myself a pair of RS140's. I had a pair of Sony Wireless before, which were around 6 years old, and fancied a change.
I know you sacrifice some sound quality and clarity with wireless headphones, but the RS140's are absolutely brilliant. I know it's not exactly relevant to your question, but thought i'd pitch this as a secondary option?
They're very practical for wandering about the house doing every day stuff!
I know you sacrifice some sound quality and clarity with wireless headphones, but the RS140's are absolutely brilliant. I know it's not exactly relevant to your question, but thought i'd pitch this as a secondary option?
They're very practical for wandering about the house doing every day stuff!
I haven't had the opportunity to listen to HD650's but I have been very pleased with my HD600's via a x-cans v2 amp.
If you are thinking of spending that kind of cash though it's definitely worth trying a few. Even within the sennheiser range the style of reproduction varies in my experience.
I bought a second pair of high-ish end headphones more recently. My local hi-fi shop lent me 3 or 4 pairs of sennheiser and grado headphones. The new sennheisers (can't remember models but £50-£120 range) all sounded very different to the hd600's - lots of bass, very "modern" but somehow fake and forced compared to my hd600's. The cheaper they were the worse this seemed to be.
I'm guessing grados may be a marmite thing. The build quality for £100+ headphones is terrible, completely unacceptable imo, the design looks 1940's etc etc....however, the important bit, the sound...wow, just amazing. Very pure and true to the recording. They are also much easier to drive than say HD600's if you don't have an amp. Some may feel they are bass light and i can understand that but to me they sounded more natural and that was the priority for me as i was buying specifically for a digital piano. Where the sennheisers made it sound like a keyboard the grados sounded much closer to a real piano. I ended up with SR80 i think. Haven't tried the high end grados but definitely would if i was to replace the HD600's.
Happy listening.
If you are thinking of spending that kind of cash though it's definitely worth trying a few. Even within the sennheiser range the style of reproduction varies in my experience.
I bought a second pair of high-ish end headphones more recently. My local hi-fi shop lent me 3 or 4 pairs of sennheiser and grado headphones. The new sennheisers (can't remember models but £50-£120 range) all sounded very different to the hd600's - lots of bass, very "modern" but somehow fake and forced compared to my hd600's. The cheaper they were the worse this seemed to be.
I'm guessing grados may be a marmite thing. The build quality for £100+ headphones is terrible, completely unacceptable imo, the design looks 1940's etc etc....however, the important bit, the sound...wow, just amazing. Very pure and true to the recording. They are also much easier to drive than say HD600's if you don't have an amp. Some may feel they are bass light and i can understand that but to me they sounded more natural and that was the priority for me as i was buying specifically for a digital piano. Where the sennheisers made it sound like a keyboard the grados sounded much closer to a real piano. I ended up with SR80 i think. Haven't tried the high end grados but definitely would if i was to replace the HD600's.
Happy listening.
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