<< 1 >>
Rating: 
Summary: Nice headphones but still bulky
Review: I have an average size head and love to watch movies late at night at my paper-thin walled apartment and hence needing to find an excellent light headphone. I get one out of two demands from the Sennheiser headphones HD580. The headphones sounds great but after 30 min. with the headphones I'm ready to take the weights off my head, I placed the item back into the box for a return.
Rating: 
Summary: This is a great sounding headphone.
Review: It delivers very good full range of sound. Highs are very crispy and lows are very full and solid. Although I haven't compared it with others in the similar price range, it does sound a par above the headphones that are selling for around $100. One reservation that I have is: the cord is very thin and soft. I think one has to be very careful with the wires in order for this baby to last for long.
Rating: 
Summary: Sennheiser HD-580 Headphones
Review: My wife bought these for me with the included Dolby Pro-Logic decoder for my use in a home recording studio. These headphones have truly phenomenal response, from tight kick drums bass to sparkling cymbal hit highs. I can not recommend these headphones any higher. As a home recording hobbyist, as well as an Digital Audio software programmer, I rely on highly accurate representation of audio signals. These phones get the job done with flying colors. The added decoder is great for late night DVD viewing as well. Do yourself a favor and check out what you have been missing when listening to your favorite cd on those cheap headphones you own.... you won't be disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: Sennheiser HD-580 Headphones
Review: My wife bought these for me with the included Dolby Pro-Logic decoder for my use in a home recording studio. These headphones have truly phenomenal response, from tight kick drums bass to sparkling cymbal hit highs. I can not recommend these headphones any higher. As a home recording hobbyist, as well as an Digital Audio software programmer, I rely on highly accurate representation of audio signals. These phones get the job done with flying colors. The added decoder is great for late night DVD viewing as well. Do yourself a favor and check out what you have been missing when listening to your favorite cd on those cheap headphones you own.... you won't be disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: Nice headphones but still bulky
Review: The Sennheiser 580s are accurate, detailed, balanced-- across the board good. The 580s redefined the industry standard for sound and comfort. They have tight bass and present an open, airy, reserved sound that is--well good. These comfortable, durable headphones do require an amp-- at 300ohms they're a bit overwhelming for a portable.
Rating:
Summary: Sennheiser HD580 with DSP
Review: The Sennheiser 580s are accurate, detailed, balanced-- across the board good. The 580s redefined the industry standard for sound and comfort. They have tight bass and present an open, airy, reserved sound that is--well good. These comfortable, durable headphones do require an amp-- at 300ohms they're a bit overwhelming for a portable.
Rating:
Summary: Sennheiser 580 with DSP Pro
Review: These are phenomenal headphones. First, people who claim that the HD-580 has inferior sound quality to any other headphone made or possible are imagining things. This is understandable if they've either bought substantially more expensive 'phones or believe in mystical powers conferred on audio signals by fancy wires, or whatever. If you do not fall into these categories, you will be as satisfied by the HD-580 as you can hope to be by mere headphones. They're not particularly sensitive, and those claiming they get noticeable bass distortion at listenable levels are undoubtedly driving them from an underpowered source. With decent amplification, as from a dedicated amp or a good preamplifier, you won't find distortion at noticeable levels before you damage your hearing. The DSP Pro, which generally comes bundled with the remaining supplies of the HD-580, really is a disappointment. I use it at the office as a simple amplifier to get a bit more volume, but when the effects processing is on sound quality becomes miserable, with the high frequencies particularly drastically affected. This is actually a shame, because the spatial effect is pretty decent. On stereo recordings so poorly mixed that entire instruments are present only in the left or right track, something rather disconcerting to hear over headphones, switching on the effects really smooths out the sound and helps pull it out of your head. The mangling of high frequencies is just too much to bear, though-- it sounds as if the vocals are coming from the bottom of a well. For video games and so on, where fidelity to the signal is perhaps less important, I don't find it so objectionable, and it does do its job there. These are one of the true bargains in hi-fi while the leftover stock remains. Unless you're one of the aforementioned nuts, there will never come a time when you wish you'd purchased a "better sounding" model. It will be quite obvious that such a thing is a pipe dream. Just buy one of these!
<< 1 >>
| 
