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SGva
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Nov 11, 2017
I flew home late last night from a week long business trip to NYC and there in the foyer, sitting on the bench, was my eagerly anticipated Massdrop package! I have owned a pair of Sennheiser HD-580 Precision's since July 2004 so I already had a pretty good idea what a treat I was in for. The HD-580 was the predecessor to the HD-600 and HD-650 series with plastic screened external earcups versus the metal screens on the 600/650 earcups and, I continue to love them. I upgraded them with the 600/650 "screens" a few years ago which opened up the sound a bit and made their overall sound very close to the 600/650's. Two years ago I added Nordost Heimdall 2 headphone cables which took those headphones to a much higher level of performance. Overkill perhaps but what a further leap in performance! More "atmospheric". IE-more open with more air around instruments, tighter, further extended bass along with extended higher frequencies allowing me to hear further into recordings. The sound now extending beyond the confines of my head, too. When I initially compared the headphones last evening, the HD-580's, with the Nordost headphone cable easily beat the HD-6XX's. More open, with tighter and more extended bass. But that, of course, was not a fair comparison. So, off the HD-580's came the Nordost cable and onto the HD-6XX's. Now the HD-6XX's outperformed the HD-580's with a further refined sound with the same atmospheric and enveloping sound along with extended bass, more extended highs, etc. IE-no "Sennheiser veil" as has sometimes been attributed to the 580/600/650 series of 'phones. I highly recommend that if your budget permits, upgrade the supplied cable (which is of fairly decent quality) with an aftermarket upgrade like the Nordost Heimdall 2 or Blue Heaven headphone cables. Sure, it involves spending way more than you paid for the headphones but my justification is that by saving so much money on the HD-6XX's, why not splurge and literally put these superior cans on steroids with a far better cable. I intend to keep these Massdrop HD-6XX's forever since I love their sound so much (just like my HD-580's which will move to my office system). I'm sitting here typing this comment listening to Chieli Minucci and Special EFX (just like I did until 3AM last night after arriving home at 12:35AM). Thanks Massdrop for another awesome buy!!
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