Hey guys. I‘ve recently started migrating from my trusty Sennheiser HD 598s to a receiver/passive speakers setup. I first tried a 2.1 setup with Q Acoustics 2020 bookshelves on my desk and a Wharfedale sub and it blew me away, the sound quality is incredible, it’s insanely fun to listen to, and...

So the notion of soundstage being a property of headphones certainly has a lot of substance behind it, and indeed, even untrained ears can anecdotally easily perceive this. However, the theory behind is rather confusing to me. Since soundstage seems to be related to the openness of headphones...

This is my first thread and I did some research but couldn't find something very specific about it, sorry if I'm doing something wrong. Basically my doubt is: going from an HD598 to an k712 is really an uprade or a "sidegrade"? Is it worth it? I'm quite satisfied with the 598 for music but for...