Sennheiser Consumer Audio HD 650 – Audiophile Hi-Res Open Back Dynamic Headphone, Titan

Future classic. You can quote me on that. Incredible, and possibly the best.
These headphones are slightly colored. Most people prefer that, but if you’re using them for studio monitors, you won’t find better than the HD800’s. Trust me. But for everyday use, these can’t be beat for dynamic open headphones. Combine them with a full tube amp and I highly doubt you’ll find a better “stuck on an island the rest of your life” headphones.UPDATE: After having owned these for over a year now, let me elaborate on my thoughts on these INCREDIBLE headphones.Value: This is tough. If you like open headphones, and love lower model Sennheisers, like the HD595, HD598, HD600, etc, then you’ll surely LOVE these. I owned a pair of HD595’s for several years before I accidentally broken them due to the stupid long cable. These sound very similar to those, only with a slightly darker top end, and much much much better bass. And, they’re just better overall, in soundstage, speed, bass depth, bass extension, resolution, etc. Some people just don’t like the open headphone sound. That’s perfectly fine, and if that’s the case, you probably won’t like these. But if you’ve owned open headphones and like the open airy spacious natural sound… then you’ll ADORE these.Comfort: 4.5 stars. They’re Sennheisers. Pretty much all Sennheisers are extremely comfortable. They’re light. The pads are usually comfortable soft velour. They usually have medium light to light clamping force. They have really large oval cups that fit the largest of ears. If comfort is high on your list, these might fit your bill.Value: 5 stars. These headphones bat outside their league. Outside their price range. I’ve seem MANY people go from these headphones to new headphones in the 4 digit range, then go back to these. LOTS OF TIMES. It’s for a good reason. These headphones are going to be a future classic. You can quote me on that. If you’ve never owned “audiophile” quality headphones before, this price might seem high, but trust me, to upgrade from these, you usually have to buy Planar Magnetic headphones like the Audeze LCD-2, LCD-3, LCD-X headphones or similar. Those are all $1500+. If you’ve never had good quality headphones, these might not be your best first choice. Not because they don’t sound good. These sound incredible. It’s because these headphones are 300 ohms and require a pretty decent amp. They scale well with good hardware upstream, so a good DAC helps a lot too. (and source audio, you’ll want 320 KB/s mp3’s and FLAC if possible)Soundstage: 5 stars. Do these have the best soundstage ever? No. HD800’s have that title. Why do I give it 5 stars then? Because these headphones have a better soundstage than 98% of the headphones out there.Resolution: 4.5 stars. Great, but not to the level of Planar/Ortho headphones. If you’ve never heard $1500+ ortho headphones, you won’t even know what I’m talking about anyways.Treble: 4.5 stars. I’d give it 5 stars, but the treble on these headphones are rolled a tiny bit. You may hear them described as “dark” or “veiled”. That’s relative. To me, I prefer darker headphones anyways. Bright headphones are fatiguing and give me a headache after a few minutes. These roll the highs just enough to make them easy to listen to for hours, yet leave enough treble there to leave the top end nice and sharp. No sparkle. Sparkle bad. (depends on who you ask lol)Mids: 5 stars. Sennheisers’ bread and butter. These have incredible mids. Through tube amps, or hybrid tube amps, the mids are lush. Liquidy. Warm. Female vocals will give you the chills. The warmth of the mids on these cans will make you smile in aural ecstacy.Bass: 4.5 stars. These headphones are probably the only headphones from Sennheiser with really good bass. The bass isn’t as tight or deep as on Ortho headphones, but for open cans, it’s incredibly impressive. I give the bottom end a tiny tiny bit of EQ to boost the bass, but other than that, it’s the best bass I’ve heard from open headphones yet. The punch is pretty solid. I’d rate punch 3.5 stars. Bass extension is really good. I’d rate it 4 stars. Overall though, I give it 4.5 stars considering these are open headphones.Scalability: 5 stars. These cans scale like crazy. Upgrade your DAC: you’ll heard the difference. Upgrade your amp: you’ll hear a difference. Upgrade your tubes: you’ll hear a difference. These headphones just keep giving.I used to own HD595’s. They blew my mind. The bass on those sucked. Worse than Bose Tri-Ports, which were aweful themselves in bass. But you know what? I loved the lush mids so much, as well as the airy soundstage, I didn’t care about the lack of bass. Those headphones broke later (my fault, not theirs), and I was forced to upgrade. These headphones are an improvement in every way. (other than weight and clamping force, the HD595 was lighter in weight and clamped lighter, but not by a whole lot)What’s the best amp to drive these? EASY. Bottlehead Crack with Speedball upgrade. They’re hands down the best amp for these headphones. Ask around. You’ll get the same answer. Any full tube amp will do. Even the hybrids sound good, but for some reason, these headphones come alive with a full tube amp like the Crack.DAC? Any external DAC will suffice. The $99 one from Schiit is fine. Bifrost Uber even better if you can afford it. O2. Lots of choices. Just don’t drive these from the on-board audio on your motherboard. That’s just wrong.The best part about these headphones? The headphones two to three times its price are only a marginal 10-20% better, if that. And those usually require another 4 digits worth of gear to be worth getting. These headphones are at that bang for buck price point where you really start to get diminishing returns when you try to upgrade from these.Pros: Lots. Value. Soundstage. Lush mids. Soft highs for long listening session with no fatigue. Awesome bass, in headphones that have open airy sound. Removable cable. Scalability.Cons: ONLY con: You will have one HELL of a time finding headphones to upgrade to from these headphones. Be warned! These are so awesome for their price that you’ll have a really hard time finding headphones you’ll like better. That’s not really a con though, but since I can’t think of any cons, I’ll list it as one anyways!If you’ve heard other open headphones and like the huge soundstage and open sound, and want to upgrade: GET THESE. Don’t even hesitate. You’ll be blown away. Just make sure you have good source files (320 mp3’s or FLAC) and a full tube amp like the Bottlehead Crack amp. Thank me later! Enjoy!

If you find sennheiser hd600 too be over sibilant and hd660s2 to have too much muddy bass this here hd650 is your best bet and best pair of headphone. Not only the sound stage is amazing it also comes with 2 ear pads that is supreme comfortable. Along with that it have 3 meter cable so you can listen from you room across the whole football field. I use this headphone for call of duty war zone and I can hear every single footstep and breathing if enemy from all 4d dimensional angle. The imaging is so precise that I lose myself to the big emerging world where enemy is all around you. With this headphone I always comes out as number one on warzone battle royale. I can hear my enemy as far as 800 meter away. I can hear their footstep, their breathing, their gun shot and their heartbeat that is hiding in the toiletry. That’s how precise this headphone is. For music wise I use tidal apple and Amazon music. With Amazon music I can hear 20D dimensions. The music kept coming from north south east and west and even from billion miles away with this headphone the artist is literally dancing in front of my ears. It’s like my ears have a brain on its own. The bass. Is not too heavy and not to low. It’s just the right amount for my punishing ears. I have 70 years of audiophile experience that no other people have and I can tell you these headphone will disappoint you with happyness and you need buy them from Amazon. Not only they guarantee your satisfaction they also have you 30 days return policy. Omg where are you going to find that? Now where. Only Amazon offers you that opportunity. Listen you won’t even return these because after you put these on you won’t ever need to take them off because it’s open back. When your mom comes in and shout at you for gaming you won’t need to take it off. Because you can hear ever saliva coming off of her mouth. That’s how open back they are. It’s like you having a headphone without having a headphone. There is no anc feature that’s going to pressurize your god holy golden ears. You can hear your family and neighbours voice in 10k HD. Yup I said it 10k HD. Turn that amp up and listen to 7 billion voices in this earth. What’s amazing about this headphone while listening to Amazon music which is the best music service by the way, you can even identify the gossip that is coming from your neighbour. But don’t worry. I took this comfortable headphone to the god forgiven sin universal church and plug it into the holy trinity water amp, I can hear all the angles singing to me. The vocals is very very forward and instrument separation is massive. Massive as in 10 meter ratio according to me blessed ears. That’s how good I can describe to you. It’s not sharp to the level it will pierce through your ear drum and cause you forever ring ring ring in your young frigile ear drums. You need an amp, and headphone and music service from amazon. And remember to change it to ultra lossless so you can hear all voice from 4 dimensional world.Enjoy your pair of hd650 thanks to Amazon everyone is able to get a chance to own one while enjoying the beauty nature of Amazon music that have billions of song that you will never miss.

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