It is pretty hard to beat the 560S for the money - would be ideal with a wider soundstage for gaming but you won't really beat the overall quality you get at the price point. Beyerdynamic have several very good headphones around that budget but their best are a fair bit above and I'm a bit out of touch with the likes of the Beyerdynamic 300 variants which are supposedly very good for gaming.
Comfort wise though some people find the 560S not the best for longer sessions >1.5 hours.
I feel like the 560S is probably the one (or few) Sennheiser models actually under the price it should be, rather than too expensive. And in that sense is a bargain. Although I appreciate the RRP on their headphones is often much higher. It's an amazing headphone for detail and resolution at its price point. Where it fell apart for me was the tuning, it's too cold. At least for music. For gaming I don't think it matters. And it's interesting because at the time reviews and influencers didn't really pick-up on that, or flag it meaningfully (Zeos was the one I remember that did). I think it's only since years down the line where the likes of the 505 & 550 brought out more honest narrative from those same influencers. But that's kind of going off tangent a little bit.
Regarding Beyerdynamic ranges as I have been able to pick up on (and apologies if too much info) I understand the recent MMX 300 & 330 Pro use the same Stellar.45 driver as the
DT 700, 900, 770 Pro X & 770 Pro X Limited Edition and
990 Pro X. However apart from the DT 770 Pro X LE (no longer available) all have the thinker foam disc first used in the
Amiron and
TYGR 300R. Which helps 'tame' that Beyerdynamic treble, albeit the 770 & 990 Pro X still try to mimic that 'classic' Beyer house v-shape sound and have more treble. Most reviews seem to suggest the Stellar.45 has better detail retrieval then the older classic driver (not sure if this has a name) although how much this matters for gaming is probably debatable. This Stellar.45 is much easier to drive and therefore I sense might be more consistent in how it sounds on different gear.
Then the
DT 770/880/990, TYGR 300R and older
MMX 300 Gen 1/2 use the classic Beyerdynamic driver. As I understand it the coil and how tighly wound it is in the manufacturing process can help alter the sensitivity all the way from 32 Ohm to 600 Ohm. And this means that certain models (i.e. DT 880 600 Ohms, or the 990 Pro 250 Ohm etc) probably experience more variation when plugged into higher impedance AMPs (i.e. tubes). Something that's quite interesting if you ask me, although the thought of driving an 880 600 is daughting. In theory the old classic driver isn't as detailed as the new Stellar-models, but Resolve did raise
some certain aspects of the TYGR 300R being better in details vs. the 900 Pro X when he reviewed the TYGR. Whilst that reinforces my own personal bias of the TYGR, I'd imagine in reality they are very close in how they perform for gaming.
The more expensive MK 1770/1990 Mk.II use that
Tesla.45 driver, which I imagine very much differentiates these, although it should at their price point. I think that's about it in terms of what I've picked up about these headphones. But I sense any of the DT Classics, TYGR, the Pro X and MMX 300/330 Pro models are going to be similar for gaming performance, with some variation in tuning. The one thing I like about most of these models is the comfort. Even with the round earpads you have my second favourite headphone for comfort, beating even the HD 6x0 line. The stock foam pads are lovely, some of the models are below that magic 300g weight (DT 770, 880, TYGR etc.) and everything is replaceable for reasonable prices. And for once Europeans get better prices.
I've been thinking about the 770 a lot recently and am still pondering whether to pick one up again, either a classic, or the new DT 770 Pro X. I know there are arguably better closed-backs out there but these were a bit magical for spoken-word content, and great for media and gaming (for a closed-back).
Beyerdynamic was
bought out by a new owners this year. Hopefully they keep donig what they are good at and it doesn't impact them for the worse.
