Looking for some advise on a DAC/Amp for a set of Sennheiser HD 6XX Headphones (HD 650 variant)

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Hello

I've been kind of sitting on the side lines for a bit with audio and I'm looking to take it to the next level, so I have ordered a set of Sennheiser HD 6XX Headphones from a US based communal purchase site that's sold over 42,000 of these headsets that they have Sennheiser make for them.

It was far to tempting a punt considering that they are £160'ish if they make it through customs considering the HD 650's I can find on google are around £320.

From the reviews I have seen they are basically the Sennheiser HD 650 Headphones with some tweets items like the cables. From all accounts the HD 650's are a pretty good professional level headset that's fairly 'flat' according to some so they are good over sound range.

With this being said I have not looked in the DAC/Amp side yet and I'm looking for some advice on this from more experience people so that I can drive these correctly with my PC and some other kit that I will listen to music, TV and films on.

Any advice welcome

Cheers


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From personal experience, I'm going to suggest you focus on the amp side first. I've owned both solid state and a valve headphone amp, and thought that the valve amp made a seriously good improvement.
The unit I had was a Little Dot iv, but there's other options out there. Sold mine for £150, so they're not killer expensive.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
From personal experience, I'm going to suggest you focus on the amp side first. I've owned both solid state and a valve headphone amp, and thought that the valve amp made a seriously good improvement.
The unit I had was a Little Dot iv, but there's other options out there. Sold mine for £150, so they're not killer expensive.
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I had the chance of purchasing the headset at this price now as it only lasts for 9 days more so I took it for the now, I can wait until I find a good DAC and amp. But I was looking for advice to direct me to some good products.
 
You probably don't need to spend gobs of money to get a good sound out of them. I bet a MBPr could, for example, drive these perfectly fine, and offer excellent sound quality.
 
The bottlehead crack is meant to be a good partner for the 650 as is the little dot.

I had a pair with my stx essence which sounded nice but I have to admit to preferring the akg k712 pro
 
I have 6XX picked up in the same way and using them for gaming & music with a magni 2 amp and modi 2 dac from Schitt and very happy with the results.

Magni 2 has now been superceded by v3 which is reportedly even better.

See if you can get this thread shifted into soundcity to get more input.
 
Sennheiser 600/650 benefit hugely from lots and lots of voltage and generous slew rates - they do not need an amp which can supply a lot of current and infact those amps can sometimes be detrimental to getting the best performance out of the 600 series.

I'd also give a balanced amp a consideration as the 600 do noticeable gain from it - though it doesn't fundamentally change their performance.

Unfortunately I can't easily recommend any one amp as I gave up in the end and built my own and some people really like how they sound off tubes and some don't - some of the best for actually getting those drivers working are tube amps.
 
I was looking around for a Desktop Amp for when my Audeze LCD2-C come. I do have the Magni 3 and M/F v90 dac. Ill be keeping my Dac as i love the sound. Just not sure on the Magni 3 yet as not tried it but its suppose to be great for the money. I know there's better out there but the Magni is perfect size for my Desktop most are way to big
 
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