Hd 800 S Over-The-Ear Audiophile Reference Headphones - Ring Radiator Drivers With Open-Back Earcups, Includes Balanced Cable, 2-Year Warranty (Black), Wired

I connected the headphone to Cambridge Audio DacMagic 200m Headphone amplifier output, DacMagic 200m to my laptop via a USB A to B (Ugreen 2 m cable) and it sounds much better than my entry level Hi-Fi system.

received product was seemingly opened before. the box was not wrapped in plastic as you would expect a new product to and i could see that the flap to open the box was a little bit torn off already. i don't know if i got a new item or used one to be honest. i did not get to experience the joy of unboxing a brand new product for the amount of money i paid. disappointing.

In short,Comfort is top notch, very light and no pressure after long sessions, cable is lil too heavy but a replacement is always an option.Sound is very good and detailed, might be too detailed actually.. it’s wide and open but still enjoyable. Note tho the headphone may not be a musical set unless you are using a warmer DAC or tubes. It’s very good with classical and instruments. EDM, hip-hop not that much since the bass is not punchy but it exists!In gaming these are definitely an S tier because you can hear everything clearly and with that comfort crazy combo. Yes it’s pricey but if you have the budget it’s a unique headphone for sure.

Great headphones. I bought these a few weeks ago. I originally owned the hd600s and really liked them only had them for a couple of months but I felt they were lacking something. It was a difficult decisions deciding between these and the original 800's. I read up that you could mod the original 800's to sound as good or better than these but I really didn't want to open up the phones especially because of there price. Anyway when I first got these It was a little disappointing. However, After a couple weeks of listening to these you can really notice a sound quality difference between these and the original 600s. These have a fair bit more detail. The separation and sound stage is also very impressive. Now I have not got a chance to listen to these over the original 800's so I cant compare there sound stage or anything else for that matter.Are these worth the money? Well that is a difficult question. Especially if you are someone with a small amount of disposable income. I would highly recommend listening to these first to make sure they really are for you. It is really a matter of opinion whether or not they are worth they are worth money. In my opinion. They are just about worth it. Especially if you use the included balanced cable. I love these phones they are what I use primarily now. I would love to test these out on a few other amp and dacs and see if there is noticeable improvement.TLDR: Great headphones.If you have the extra cash and audio is very important to you buy these. (Just make sure you have a suitable amp and Dac) If you don't have allot of extra money and you still want these listen to them at a local dealer and then decide for yourself.

Sennheiser kalitesi

These headphones are precision machines created to enable hearing exactly what is in a recording. They are Zeiss cinema lenses for audio: Smooth, precise, effortless, free of distortion...they make phenomenal recordings/productions shine like you are in the studio listening to master tapes through the board, and they expose any and all defects in a mix/recording (or repro signal chain). Owning them is a real treat.IMO, they greatly benefit from using inline EQ (preferably 10 band or more), because they instantly expose the vast differences between the eq curves used by producers on recordings (not to mention digital quality/sampling/bit rates, mastering compression modes, microphone/room choice...). Since purchasing these, I have been making and saving custom 10 band eq curves via VLC for specific favorite albums to bring out the best in recordings for MY ears which, at 60 years of age, are still excellent but certainly do not have a "flat" response. Some recordings sound great "flat" but most are engineered to compensate for terrible car/home audio systems, or were mangled in the analog to digital mastering process during the early CD era...so these re-EQs can make a MASSIVE difference.The HD 800s headphones are made by the venerable Sennheiser corp, but could easily be a pro-NAGRA product - Swiss/German absolute precision. They are open backed, which I favor b/c they breathe and do not cut the listener off from the ambient environment...VERY comfortable for long listening sessions.I am currently running them via a simple inexpensive chain: Apple Mac playing back a variety of audio formats via the VLC player/EQ, into a Dragonfly Cobalt DAC, into an Apos Duoo TA-66 tube headphone amp...only $500 or so of equipment, but phenomenal quality**. The TA-66 puts out 200mw into 300 Ohms (the impedance of the HD 800s), and with the Mac volume setting at unity, and the TA-66 at 50% (12 o'clock), I am at/beyond my tolerance for loudness (suspect this is producing spl of ~ 95db peaks at my ears). So plenty of power. At this power level there is zero noise, zero clipping/artifacting, unbelievably precise dynamics (the speed with which these headphones can transition from max loudness to absolute silence or visa versa is hard to describe), a massive soundstage, complete transparency of human vocals and all musical instruments (from softest violins, to ridiculously saturated heavy metal guitars/drums such as in Rammstein's Deutschland). Santana's Europa from an old low-rez ripped CD file of the Moonflower album brought tears to my eyes...I could "see" Carlos' fingers moving to every fret/bend, hear every nuance of his pick interacting with the strings, all while the synth strings and drums surrounded him in massive perfectly detailed layers - the mental impression/vision was that I was Carlos looking down at my hands on the guitar and the band was behind, left and right of me -a pretty unique, nearly psychedelic "staging" compared to the thousands of other times I've listened to this recording on vinyl/cd.There is no doubt owning this set of headphones will make one want to upgrade ALL favorite recordings to lossless/remastered 24/96 (minimum) versions as they become available.In conclusion, these are headphones...they DO NOT reproduce the experience of incredible speakers moving huge amounts of air in a large well tuned listening room, but for close listening of audio recordings they are truly wonderful, emotionally engaging, reference instruments in the very top strata of headphone products... There may be "different" and there are certainly more expensive, but to say "better" requires personal/subjective interpretation of extraordinarily marginal diminishing returns.** For reference, I'm a vintage Marantz tube preamp/amp owner (who has also owned a large list of other top tier tube and solid state signal chain components - Conrad Johnson, HK, Bryston, Crown, Macintosh, Audio Research...) who is used to driving LARGE speakers from the likes of B&W, JBL, Klipsch in large well proportioned listening rooms. As a musician who plays piano, guitars, drums/percussion, synths, etc., and has performed in live environments with orchestras, small ensembles, rock/fusion bands, jazz big bands) I know from experience what real instruments sound/feel like in all sorts of audio environments good/bad/ugly...