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Summary: Love them Belgians--HD600s for $177
Review: ...I've had em for a day. Running a NAD C540 Cd-player, NAD C370 amplifier, with MIT terminator 2 interconnects. So far so good. The sound is a touch on the bright side, and particularly so with already bright recordings. This I hope will abate with sufficient burn-in time. Already the reproduction of voice and acoustic material is excellent in terms of clarity, and is convincingly natural. Some electronic and rock (police/masive attack) sound a little harsh in addition to the brightness. I'm betting that harshness will disappear soon. Sound field on these has occassionally been staggering. Listen to Pink Floyd the wall another brick pt 2 about 3 mins 30s in--the kids in the play ground sound like they're about a foot outside your head! My B&W 2000 speakers have better clarity, detail, and obviously sound staging. . . but I need to crank em to ear bleeding levels for that. . .hence the phones. (...
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Summary: Love them Belgians--HD600s for $177
Review: ...I've had em for a day. Running a NAD C540 Cd-player, NAD C370 amplifier, with MIT terminator 2 interconnects. So far so good. The sound is a touch on the bright side, and particularly so with already bright recordings. This I hope will abate with sufficient burn-in time. Already the reproduction of voice and acoustic material is excellent in terms of clarity, and is convincingly natural. Some electronic and rock (police/masive attack) sound a little harsh in addition to the brightness. I'm betting that harshness will disappear soon. Sound field on these has occassionally been staggering. Listen to Pink Floyd the wall another brick pt 2 about 3 mins 30s in--the kids in the play ground sound like they're about a foot outside your head! My B&W 2000 speakers have better clarity, detail, and obviously sound staging. . . but I need to crank em to ear bleeding levels for that. . .hence the phones....
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Summary: Awesome Headphones - At Any Price
Review: ...They come in a beautiful black presentation box. It's almost too nice to through away! The headphones are comfortable, completely surround the ear, and have aweseome sound. I'm ordering a mid range amplifier to give it more pep as my walkman doesn't have enough power to really drive these. They are by far the best headphones I've ever owned. You can't go wrong with the price - go for it.
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Summary: Awesome Headphones - At Any Price
Review: ...They come in a beautiful black presentation box. It's almost too nice to through away! The headphones are comfortable, completely surround the ear, and have aweseome sound. I'm ordering a mid range amplifier to give it more pep as my walkman doesn't have enough power to really drive these. They are by far the best headphones I've ever owned. You can't go wrong with the price - go for it.
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Summary: Best - and Worst -'Phones
Review: All these reviews are correct. These are the most comfortable headphones you'll ever wear. They have the cleanest, clearest sound. But the durability is a terrible problem! I have two pairs of 580's, and one has been back 3 times and the other 2 times. The problem is the jacks that connect the cable to the headphone eventually get loose, causing the earpieces to cut out. Both are now out of commission again. All the great sound and comfort in the world will do no good if they don't play... (5 stars for sound, 5 stars for comfort, and 0 stars for reliability)
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Summary: these things kick -- but the price tag hurts.
Review: awesome quality headphones .. but with that huge price tag, it's quite an investment. If you want quality over price, go with these babies -- you WONT be sorry!
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Summary: Warning: Don't Buy These Headphones!!
Review: Headphones are supposed to let you enjoy music without disturbing other people around you.These headphones leak so much sound that I can't listen to music in bed without waking my wife. Also, because they leak so much sound, they create feedback in the recording studio. My nephew tried them and says the volume is much weaker than his Sony phones...
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Summary: Incredible value!
Review: How can four hundred dollar headphones be a good value? Consider it this way: Let's call a CD 10 dollars. Let's say you get a certain amount of pleasure from a new CD: new sounds, new music, a new experience to last you a few weeks before it gradually inches its way into the dusty corners of your collection. Now, let's say you have about 100 CDs. These headphones are now worth about ... because you have never heard any of those CDs before. These are headphones that revolutionize all the music YOU ALREADY OWN! But be warned: remember how when CDs first came out there were all those pretentious warnings about how the superior quality of the recording may expose flaws in the master that you could never make out before? I always thought there might be some audiophile somewhere who could hear some "flaw". But with these headphones you can hear a good studio from a cheap one. I can hear the buzz of unshielded electronics in the second rate studio on some indy cds. Some of my beautiful old classical music suddenly sounds muffled and dead, flattened by an unflattering production job that my speakers could not convey. The clarity is unreal. Guitar strings are made of gold and they ring clear as crystal; layers of techno pile atop each other in multicolor, multidimensional textures that knock you breathless; the exotic reverberant groan of a cello solo that you have heard a thousand times will bring tears to your cheeks. And all of this at a fraction of the volume you might play music on your speakers with: these headphones are brilliant and clear and perfect at low volumes. Given their open air construction these things may well preserve your hearing for an additional decade. I cannot recommend these highly enough.
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Summary: BEST headphones, if used in a quiet room & w/ good equipmnt
Review: I believe the HD-600's are truly the best headphones that don't cost several thousand dollars - and they certainly beat most speakers costing less than tens of thousands of dollars. However, be warned that these aren't the kind of toy headphones most people are used to. They need to be driven by somewhat powerful equipment - many portable audio devices aren't up to the task (which will result in low peak volume). They don't provide any substantial noise isolation, and should be used in a quiet room. They can be easily heard by those around you. They won't stand up very well to being tossed around and dropped. And they will only sound as good as what you plug them into. The HD-600's are designed for one thing: uncompromising reproduction of sound. Therefore, be sure to consider whether they are a good fit for your needs, before spending so much. Anyhow, I might add that there's no way many apartment dwellers could enjoy such exquisite sound, without them. Oh, and they're also the most comfortable pair of headphones I've ever used.
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Summary: I am in love with my Sennheiser HD600 headphones!
Review: I bought my Sennheiser HD600 headphones about 3 months ago. I broke them in with about 50 hours of jazz music after which they sound amazing!
Realize that you need a headphone amp for these headphones. I refused to pay $500+ for a headphone amp and it took me a lot of time to find a good, low-cost amp. I finally found an excellent amp in the Samson S-Monitor. They cost just $60 and they offer clean, undistorted output. You can easily spend $500 on a headphone amp but I somehow doubt it'll sound better than the Samson S-Monitor - Sennheiser HD600 headphone combo.
In my opinion, this is the poor man's alternative for $20.000+ high-end static speakers! What you read in the other positive reviews about the Sennheiser HD600 is true, if you have good ears you should definitely get these headphones. Unless you don't like headphones and can afford high-end static speakers of course.
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