Should I Get an HD600?

[GPH]

I think Blutarsky is selling his HD600 for a good price. I told him I'd loan him a nice 4-pin XLR cable for his ZDT and he'd change his mind real fast (he also should get new pads).

Are you Blutarsky's official spokesman?

[Hopstretch]

Mid-Fi FTW.

I have recently been mulling a truly high-end IEM design consisting in the main of twin angelic choirs dancing upon the heads of dual platinum pins. I believe this to be both psycho-acoustically and theologically sound.

[Aura]

The ugly splatter paint?

I actually liked that paint job on the HD600 that I owned. The headphone looked practically untouched from the previous owner without a scratch on it, and the glossy coat really looked good in certain lighting.

[Dusty Chalk]

Actually, I am going to say that if you do not really like the 650 you probably should look elsewhere than the 600.

This is actually the closest to what advice I would give, were I serious. They really are very close. Though there are scores of people who like one and not the other, so they must be very close to the line.

The Line == that threshold of quality/fidelity/musicality/value/whathaveyou/whatnot/whatever below which we care not to go.

[John E Woven]

I think you should. I mean, if you don't like them, someone would gladly take them off your hands for more or less the same price you paid for them.

Oh yeah, they might sound good too.

[TC_Shadow]

I haven't spent much time with the HD600 and now that I've sold the HD800, the 650 sounds a bit boomy. Granted, it is headphiled, but I suspect it would still sound boomy if I were to replace the grills.

Any thoughts re the 600? I haven't spent much time with it. And what would be a good price used?

I had my HD600 for over 2 yrs before selling it in favor of HD650. IMO HD650 has a more engaging and transparent midrange (you can probably tell I am big on midrange performance), which was, at the time, enough for me to give up HD600. Both are non-offending. HD600 is probably just a had quicker at the extremes. Although the latest HD650 revision probably makes that a moot point.

[diebenkorn]

I have a pair of 600's (with 580 grills, 600 grills sound better imo) I dont use that I can bring to the NY meet.

[Fungi]

I also thought HD600 > HD650. Of course I like the K701 so that makes me a loony.

[TC_Shadow]

Just out of curiosity, have ppl here compared the new versions of both headphones?

I assume there are 2 versions out there, unless you tell me I am wrong.

[Hopstretch]

Three versions.

[morphsci]

Actually there are 8 versions, 2^3

[The Monkey]

Each one is a different version apparently.

[Trav]

Sennheiser HD600 / HD-600 Hi-Fi Professional Stereo Headphones, bstock w/ Warran DAKmart

[TC_Shadow]

Actually there are 8 versions, 2^3

what you really wanted to say was 6 since 8 makes no sense at all.

n items with m versions = n*m , and not n^m

[Hopstretch]

what you really wanted to say was 6 since 8 makes no sense at all.

n items with m versions = n*m , and not n^m

You badly need to recalibrate your jocularity detector.

[Grahame]

Or this?

[Dusty Chalk]

It depends on what your definition of "version" is.

[TC_Shadow]

It depends on what your definition of "version" is.

driver version

Based on my limited knowledge, there are black-cloth and white-cloth versions for both headphones. I don't remember people mentioning any other version.

[thrice]

You badly need to recalibrate your jocularity detector.

Jocularity, Jocularity!

[The Monkey]

I want to know how is 2^3 = 8 not correct?

[morphsci]

what you really wanted to say was 6 since 8 makes no sense at all.

n items with m versions = n*m , and not n^m

You badly need to recalibrate your jocularity detector.

Yep, what he said plus:

[TC_Shadow]

I want to know how is 2^3 = 8 not correct?

2 headphones with 3 versions each right?

Headphone A ver1

Headphone A ver2

Headphone A ver3

Headphone B ver1

Headphone B ver2

Headphone B ver3

total 6 versions.

[The Monkey]

toot toot!

[TC_Shadow]

Yep, what he said plus:

[The Monkey]

I sense a timeout in the near future...