Sennheiser HD650 - The classic beauty in a grey dress Appreciation thread!
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The receiver to my sofa is around 3.5m, so I'd need a 4m length to be able to be able to sit semi-comfortably with it on. 5m would be ideal.
Oh, Yeah mine only just reach to be fair. I do most of my listening at my desk so i just put up with it but if i did more listening in the living room i might consider a headphone amp next to the sofa or something. Probably more hassle than it's worth though
Oh, Yeah mine only just reach to be fair. I do most of my listening at my desk so i just put up with it but if i did more listening in the living room i might consider a headphone amp next to the sofa or something. Probably more hassle than it's worth though
The Oppo HA2 and iphone or android frees you from your desk
Oh, Yeah mine only just reach to be fair. I do most of my listening at my desk so i just put up with it but if i did more listening in the living room i might consider a headphone amp next to the sofa or something. Probably more hassle than it's worth though
Ok, found a decently rated one here. Should do the job.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UANW4SI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1I need to do more reading on headphone amps to see if it would be worth it as I've never looked at them before so need to do some swotting up.
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Ok, found a decently rated one here. Should do the job.
I need to do more reading on headphone amps to see if it would be worth it as I've never looked at them before so need to do some swotting up.
Nice find, I think I might get one of those too and avoid making my HD650 cable a skipping rope when I sit on the couch.
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The Oppo HA2 and iphone or android frees you from your desk
Not really tbh. No good when im gaming and if I already have a perfectly good amp on my desk i dont need to using a portable amp and my phone to listen listen to the same sources. No good if im watching something on the tv either.
Portable amps are for people who want to do seriously listening on the move. That's not me.
I use the oppo for everything including gaming...I just plug it into my PC.
When I move to the lounge I take my phone an oppo with me.
I take it to work
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Yep, I'm back. Arrived today, authenticity has checked out too. Now to try to sneak them passed my wife before I get told off for swapping headphones AGAIN.
That gorgeous bass won you over? You will be backeveryone returns to the 650.
It really has, i will be back probably in a few months (ive already returned once) when i have a job hopefully and have the cash to splash.
My wife gets ****ed off with seeing me with different headphones LOL I bought some Lime Green Q701's last year and she walked in the room saying "What the HELL are those" then moaned.
Luckily with the 650 she's seen me with them many times so doesn't noticed they've gone haha. She hasn't noticed my LCD-2's have gone yet so I might buy some for gaming haha.
She also knows there's always some AKG variant on my desk so I can get away with those as long as they are not a funky colour to draw attention.
She didn't say much about my Beats Solo2 apart from why do you have Beats? LOL Man Latinas are scary.
Luckily with the 650 she's seen me with them many times so doesn't noticed they've gone haha. She hasn't noticed my LCD-2's have gone yet so I might buy some for gaming haha.
She also knows there's always some AKG variant on my desk so I can get away with those as long as they are not a funky colour to draw attention.
She didn't say much about my Beats Solo2 apart from why do you have Beats? LOL Man Latinas are scary.
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She knows about the PC I don't think she minds about gaming stuff too much. Saying that I sold my Black PS4 last year to buy the Red Metal Gear PS4 and she said "WHAT IS THAT" I think if I stick to dark coloured electronics I'll be ok.
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I'm still hooked on these Sony MDR-100AAPs, the bass is gorgeous and the rest ain't bad either after the upper mids settle down after a few hours - However, my HD650s are going nowhere and never will as I know I'll always come back to them.
Just comparing the 650 and nighthawks with some lovely 4k ultrad hd sounds.
The extra impact from the nighthawks semi closed back design really shines over the 650 in this kind of music.
would love to compare the pair.
From an uninformed point of view, the 650's are great
they give so much
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I'm still hooked on these Sony MDR-100AAPs, the bass is gorgeous and the rest ain't bad either after the upper mids settle down after a few hours - However, my HD650s are going nowhere and never will as I know I'll always come back to them.
The Sony MDRs (certain models) are vastly under-rated in general outside of a small number of people who are mostly in the audio production business.
Bass wise though I've no complaints with my HD600s when paired up with certain op amp configurations like the AD8066/LM4562 setup I was playing with.
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Is anyone else starting to prefer their HD650 over their gaming phones? I don't know why but I feel the 650's better micro detail is really benefiting from the X7's more open presentation.
The K702's staging is wonderful though but would it be safe to assume the 650 has a more accurate staging? I feel like I'm more involved in the game than the AKG's but at the same time there's a sense of scale with the 702 that I don't get with the AKG's. Sometimes I feel with the 702 that there's a hole in the middle, think being in the middle of a field, you have the sounds going on around you but there's a ring of nothingness then the sounds are on the outside of that, does that even make sense? Never noticed it that much until today.
The K702's staging is wonderful though but would it be safe to assume the 650 has a more accurate staging? I feel like I'm more involved in the game than the AKG's but at the same time there's a sense of scale with the 702 that I don't get with the AKG's. Sometimes I feel with the 702 that there's a hole in the middle, think being in the middle of a field, you have the sounds going on around you but there's a ring of nothingness then the sounds are on the outside of that, does that even make sense? Never noticed it that much until today.
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