Sennheiser HD 650 - Audiophile Hi-Res Open Back Dynamic Headphone

Perhaps my expectation was too high -with all these 5 star reviews.

I almost cried like a baby the first time I heard these through a reasonable budget amp.

Extremely confortable and good sounding. Every part is well built but if anything fails it can be replaced.

With my Cayin HA 1A headphone amp, these Senheisser HD650 headphones sound wonderful. They are very open, yet without harshness. They are 300 ohm impedance, so they may sound veiled unless run through an amplifier which really opens them up. In fact, I needed to pick out some warm tubes to tone them down with my headphone amp just a little, and make the female voices a little less lean and more textured. Never harsh with any tube selection though.

Ich bin nach einer längeren Test-Reise mit verschiedenen Kopfhörern schließlich beim Sennheiser HD 650 gelandet und werde dort auch bleiben. Er hat sich gegen AKG 812 Pro, AKG 702 Pro, Beyerdynamic DT1770 Pro, Beyerdynamic T90, Oppo PM3 und B&O H6 durchgesetzt.

The Sennheiser HD650 is one of the great bargains in dynamic open-backs. They are about 95% there in terms of overall fidelity compared to the most expensive h-phones, including all four and even five figure models. The HD650s may not have the fancy technologies of orthodynamic or electrostatic units, nor the pricey parts and accessories, but they definitely sound nearly as good and even better in some ways. With respect to detail, three dimensionality, accuracy, and the like, once you get to the level of the HD650s the law of diminishing returns applies in the extreme. Remove the smoke and mirrors, and all headphones reproduce sound via electrical signals which cause diaphragms (the thinner, the better) to vibrate within a magnetic field. While I was a high-end audio salesman, manufacturer reps even admitted to me that headphones were often marked up dozens of times over their true manufacturing costs. Magazine reviewers are compensated to publish rave reviews about so-called high-end audio products in order to justify their overpricing. The unwarranted praise gets propagated by naive, barely literate, blue collar types at so-called audiophile websites. But what little empirical evidence that exists, such as objective, third-party measurements of accuracy, distortion, and the like, usually debunks the aforementioned outlandish hype. And keep in mind that retailers train their commissioned salespeople to high pressure consumers into spending the most money possible. Note that price is rarely proportional to fidelity; the contrary myth is perpetuated by manufacturers and retailers in order to squeeze the most money out of every consumer. The bottom line is that if your goal is to reproduce sound exactly as it was recorded, the HD650 is about as good as you can get at that at ANY price, marketing hype notwithstanding.

Ottimo prodotto, qualità di ascolto eccezionale consigliato a tutti gli amanti della musica. Sicuramente caro ma, per qualità, paragonabile a prodotti di fascia ancora più alta.

HD650 produce great sound. For £250 they are an absolute bargain. Im using them with the Oppo HA-2 Amp/DAC and I can say the SQ is fantastic. Some people have complained about them being tight on the head, but for me, they are some of the most comfortable headphones Ive ever had.

I used the HD 590s for a couple of years without a headphone amp and enjoyed the feel and sound for the most part. But recently I decided that I wanted to blast off into the audiophile galaxy and so I picked up a pair of HD 650s along with a

These have been known as one of the best headphones by audiophiles for over a decade. They are. Simple as that.