General Headphone Audio

Raymond Lin said:
...I think V3 is meant to be better but I wouldn't get them now, there are as good modern tube amps for less for what they go for on eBay. I would at least get one with a Balance out for convenience.
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Super interesting, thank you.

I'm not in the market for them, but I did a bit of research and it seems Musical Fidelity were planning a 2025 re-release of a new X-Tube Buffer as a remake of their D-10 tube buffer, but pulled it after some complaints of buzzing/noise. Which I thought was quite interesting. I'm not sure if it did arrive to market.

Apart from what you mentioned it seems the volume wheel of the V2 is often picked up as being fiddly to use. But there are some comments around people preferring the V2 over the later version. They do come up on eBay and it seems go for £80 to £180 depending on parts, tubes included and other other upgrades etc.

From what I gather I'm not sure it's best chasing for HD 6x0 sound, or at least the Bottlehead Crack seems to be mentioned more, but I would imagine they would play very nice with the DT 880 600ohm.
 
Seems to be only in the left channel as well. Blame audio mastering engineers for stuff like that
 
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Just a mock-up, from a reddit thread about where/what/when Sennheiser should do with the 6x0 line. This wooden't work I suspect, but does make me think they should look at different colourways of the 600/650 for their anniversary of something.
 
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Binning the 2 pin connector would be the best mod they could ever do to enhance the HD6 line first
 
Timber said:
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Just a mock-up, from a reddit thread about where/what/when Sennheiser should do with the 6x0 line. This wooden't work I suspect, but does make me think they should look at different colourways of the 600/650 for their anniversary of something.
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I'm tempted to buy another pair to do them up like that, my balanced cable already has walnut and gold colour scheme which doesn't really fit the blue marble - I've an older pair without the blue marble but they need like £90 worth of work which is a difficult decision over putting the money towards a newer pair.
 
mrk said:
Binning the 2 pin connector would be the best mod they could ever do to enhance the HD6 line first
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That would mean extra costs though, where as new colour schemes would be easier to churn out. They would only need to create a few parts in new colour plastic. For example, you could re-release the original marble 600 in the new moulds, or just go super adventurous similar to how Audio-Technica release special M50X's every year. Maybe the 580 Jubilee carbon fibre scheme, or something for their 40th anniversary next year.

Although yea, if they were truly trying to modernise/rejuvenate the 6x0 as per that thread I can see the reason for the suggestion.

Rroff said:
I'm tempted to buy another pair to do them up like that, my balanced cable already has walnut and gold colour scheme which doesn't really fit the blue marble - I've an older pair without the blue marble but they need like £90 worth of work which is a difficult decision over putting the money towards a newer pair.
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I've seen a few custom paint mods on them. I suppose the hard part would be maintaining and re-colouring the Sennheiser/HD 6x0 logos. I think most people just repaint those. There's loads of second-hand HD 600's out there if you could score a bit of a saving that way too. Particularly if you were going to go non-stock earpads like this one.
 
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Timber said:
I've seen a few custom paint mods on them. I suppose the hard part would be maintaining and re-colouring the Sennheiser/HD 6x0 logos. I think most people just repaint those. There's loads of second-hand HD 600's out there if you could score a bit of a saving that way too. Particularly if you were going to go non-stock earpads like this one.
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Sadly doesn't look like anyone does the sheepskin pads in brown or anything close, I can do the logos, etc. but sadly the wood would have to be a vinyl wrap.

I'd buy a pair like that new in an instance though if Sennheiser (or rather Sonova now) did them.
 
Rroff said:
Sadly doesn't look like anyone does the sheepskin pads in brown or anything close, I can do the logos, etc. but sadly the wood would have to be a vinyl wrap.

I'd buy a pair like that new in an instance though if Sennheiser (or rather Sonova now) did them.
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Yea, also I've never seen that headband in anything other than black. I did see those Soulwit cooling gel pads DMS liked in that recent Youtube are available in coffee colour, but it doesn't look anywhere near as good as that mock-up. I think vinyl wrap wouldn't add much weight thereby keeping the feel and comfort of the headphones intact.
 
Timber said:
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Just a mock-up, from a reddit thread about where/what/when Sennheiser should do with the 6x0 line. This wooden't work I suspect, but does make me think they should look at different colourways of the 600/650 for their anniversary of something.
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It doesn't work for me, the design of that headband doesn't work with wood. Far too much plastic. Either go metal or leather IMO.

And yes, 3.5mm jacks!
 
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Timber said:
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Just a mock-up, from a reddit thread about where/what/when Sennheiser should do with the 6x0 line. This wooden't work I suspect, but does make me think they should look at different colourways of the 600/650 for their anniversary of something.
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I can jam with all of that, apart from the wood accent ring. Doesnt work with the full plastic construction and if it was to be wood effect coating on plastic it would be even worse.
 
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Angst said:
I can jam with all of that, apart from the wood accent ring. Doesnt work with the full plastic construction and if it was to be wood effect coating on plastic it would be even worse.
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Yep, that's why I made my awful pun. That said the copper logos mimic the 660S2 look that works well. But also most custom mods when people paint their 6x0 they only do the headbands and the bottom curved bits that clip on. They don't tend to paint the earcup driver enclosures, which this mock-up does.
 
Yeah likewise I don't think I've even listened to 90% of the headphones on that list let alone owned.

My most used headphones actually have some highly toxic substances in them - but AFAIK not in concentrations that are a problem and/or encapsulated in way they aren't an exposure problem.
 
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Interesting that the three Sennheiser models failed the test for different reasons; one due to the 'soft plastics' (parts in contact with the skin) and the other two due to the 'hard plastics'. So can't really even extrapolate what that means for other Sennheiser models (assume the Sonova owned Sennheiser hearing). That said the Hyper Cloud 3 Wired failed all tests so maybe that's a bad sign for that brand.

We need to all go and buy Smyths Toys headphones. Clearly... :eek:
 
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