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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #30 on: November 21, 2014, 09:55:55 AM »
UERM is closer in general tonality to the HD800 (bright up top). You can make your own conclusions from there.
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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #31 on: November 21, 2014, 10:00:26 AM »
That's an easy conclusion then, isn't it?  :)
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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #32 on: November 21, 2014, 02:56:14 PM »
You know what...After I replied to this thread, I figured, "what the hell" and I hooked up my Magni and the HD600's to my Sony HAP-S1. I set my library to "play all" and 3 hours later, there wasn't a single track I was disappointed with. Punchy, clean/detailed and basically no harshness. Very engaging (I listen a lot of 80's pop, so I was humming right along to quite a few choruses), very comfortable. I had been using the HD600 mostly out of the S1's headphone jack and the Magni really woke it up.

I'm between amps with the HD800, but if forced to, I could live with this pairing.
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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #33 on: November 21, 2014, 04:38:36 PM »
I' sold my Modi/Vali to a friend who use the combo with his HD600 and he seems happy too.
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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #34 on: November 21, 2014, 05:25:41 PM »
Quote from: Sorrodje on November 21, 2014, 04:38:36 PM
I' sold my Modi/Vali to a friend who use the combo with his HD600 and he seems happy too.
Right now I've got Modi/Vali/HE-400i which I love.

Before long, though, I'm going to have to give the HD600 a nice long listen to see which I prefer.
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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #35 on: April 04, 2015, 01:25:25 AM »
I miss having an HD600. I will almost definitely get one again someday, so long as Sennheiser never does something stupid, like discontinue them.
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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #36 on: April 04, 2015, 01:59:51 AM »
Are the newer revisions "brighter" than the old ones? I had one (don't know the age) that I just traded away recently because it was really dark, moreso than ones I'd heard before.
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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #37 on: April 04, 2015, 04:06:09 AM »
I dunno. FWIW I had some old HD580s alongside HD600s and they sounded pretty close to me...
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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #38 on: April 04, 2015, 05:01:38 AM »
I've owned/heard a few HD580/600's over the years (I don't know why I keep trading them away... curiosity kills the cat I guess). I recently traded for another one but it was just super dark sounding. Not quite enough to make me feel like it was defective, and I couldn't really tell on a sine sweep, but I felt like I was missing all my upper energy. It was strange. Meh, I didn't think too much of it and just traded it away again (I think for an X2, which is also now gone). Oh well, I'll probably wind up with another one in the future.
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Re: Is HD600 obsolete?
« Reply #39 on: April 04, 2015, 07:01:07 AM »
At times, mine is too bright in the upper mids, almost shouty. I've considered switching to an HD650 as a result because my main use for the HD600 is to lay in bed and fall asleep. I usually atone for this by dropping the volume. It is most noticable on female vocals for me. It definitely doesn't come across as dark, but the image is certainly closed in.
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