I think Beats by Dre with diamonds sounds better than SR-009 and every other headphone because it is so expensive. :))

Well the V800 is a lot better so keep using it. ;)   *Gets banned for making Sennheiser lose sales.*

Well last time I put my HD 800 in my motherboard's audio output there wasn't any noise really. And I assume that the WA2 is better than a "premium" onboard audio solution.

I went to my HD 800 dealer and they gave me a new cable. Probably because repairing a cable costs way more money then a new one, probably €150 profit on that €180 cable lol. So far everything is perfect again, and I still have the old cable (it probably broke at the Y-split internally) which I...

My cable went bad, and apparently it's too hard for Sennheiser to also check the cable when you send it in for repairs. Check it with some other output first I guess, if there is no static there then the cable is the culprit.

Quote: There is a easy way, just take the stock HD 800 cable, remove the 1/4" plug and put XLR on there. If you can't do it yourself let some audio store do it for you. You'll get the same cable that Senn sells for £250, the only difference is that your XLR connector is different.

Quote: Probably the first thing.

Read up on the HDVD800 thread, you can probably find all/most of the problems within the latest 10 pages.

Quote: But man, a group of people hating on the same thing unites those people. Let us be the cool people on the internet. Just make a sub-forum at 4chan.head-fi.org and all the problems will go away.   ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Quote: I just stacked the two at my regular computer desk, looks very cool to me. But I guess you do want a nice rack if you have them standing lonely in the corner of a room or something.

I don't believe in... racks. Lolwut? My PC works when I shake it around heavily, so the oh-so-minor vibrations shouldn't matter at all. $0,02

Quote: Yes, but it isn't listed on Head-Fi for some mysterious reason. ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ

Quote: But Stax it too expensive, I'll move on later.   First world problems.

Quote: My V200 is the only unit that I have faith in, and you can actually talk to the people at Mytek through Skype which helps. Pretty darn good compared to Sennheiser, they respond to your emails after 4 weeks and their repair service doesn't really work either.   And no, I'm not...

Quote: I'm not crying about it's sound quality, but a flagship that's $1800 shouldn't have these stupid problems. That's like buying a $5000000 Ferrari and then it turns out its top speed is 50 km/h.   I'll be known as the realistic pessimistic person on Head-Fi.   Anyway, the...

Quote: No, because audiophile equipment is apparently of better quality than studio-grade equipment and that's why there is a bunch of noise on recordings made with bad studio-grade equipment, they should've gone with tropical wooden chassis instead of metal as it gives more warmth and...

Quote: I actually didn't like any of Sennheisers headphones except for the HD 800s (HD-25II not included), the HD 650s were just bad imo and the HD 598s just lacked something. Not to mention the new portable wubwub headphones... I also listened to the T1 as it was either the T1 or the...

Quote: I love the way the HD 800s looks with the default paint job but even paper is more durable than that. All of Colorware's custom paint jobs that I've seen look like shiny ****ty cheap plastic, wanna-be Beats style I'd say. Default HD 800 is just classy and has a wow-factor to it...

Yes, I know this thread is old... But better a late answer than no answer.   I would advise not getting the HDVD800 because of all the problems that exist with the DAC. The HDVD600 is a fine option, just get another external DAC. Or get something else entirely because both of them are...

Quote: It is a problem, you purchased a flagship unit that supports 192kHz and it turns out that it doesn't support it. You could want 192kHz for the possible improvement over 96kHz and now it turns out that you can't do it.   That is like buying an expensive car with airconditioning...

Quote: Now this made me kinda hate Sennheiser, this is just a lame excuse. Axel Grell said something very silly about the balanced Senn headphone cables as well, that the negative phase is reducted in the transducer or something like that. But there is no negative phase in the first...

Quote: But it's $1800 and it's a flagship. Any issue is unacceptable for that price if you ask me.

Quote: Weren't they also screaming "true soundraisers" and other fancy speak? But they're using a crappy OEM DAC and from the look of it the unit has too many issues and limits that just shouldn't be there on a flagship DAC/amp combo. And then you have the glass... Are they trying to make...

Quote: Yes, I actually put more pressure on it than usual just in case, it goes just as deep as in the V200 and still no right channel.

Quote: Feels like their "hand-crafted" solder-joints failed on path of the right audio signal in the headphone-output part. Probably after the amplifier chip itself because there is no thump when you plug something in, only the left channel has that.