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My first time doing anything like this, spent about 3 hours listening and trying to decide which to keep.
I have a new house and a lot of new equipment. I bought the DT770 80ohms and had some serious issues, so I read a lot and bought some other headphones to test it out against. These are 5 new pairs of headphones.
Playing thru laptop > master flac files > focusrite solo [dac] > schitt heresy.
I mostly listened and critically compared playback thru about 5 songs: Pink Floyd - Time & Great Gig in the Sky, Grateful Dead - The Music Never Stopped off Dick's Picks 18, and Electric Wizard - Return Trip for something different.
Some rambley uninformed notes between the pairs:
HD25 (F)
Cable sucks
Very uncomfortable
Definitely more everything than 600s. Rumbly bass. Fatiguing. Gets distorted. Lower resistance obviously.
Return trip sounds a bit lacking… all sibilance.
Time: kinda boring compared to 600
Loud as hell for being closed
Just kicking you in the face with frequencies
DT770 250 (D)
Same fit as 80s
Kinda like the coiled cable
Bass kinda flat? Sibilant.
More kinda static and… bland than 80s. Fatiguing. Also slow. Struggles to keep up it feels like.
Max volume seems sorta quiet.
Guitar struggles to shine.
Great gig: No mids or urgency to woman’s screaming. Sibilant and fatiguing. Ears ringing after.
Feels like everything is in a tunnel
DT770 80 (C)
More clamping force than 880’s. Weird fit on ears IMO.
Uber muddy bass on.. everything. Including Return Trip.
Time: guitar solo a bit boring; fatiguingly sibilant. Definite lack of mids - missing airy quality (probably from being closed).
Great gig - piano and organ override the screaming of the woman
Muddy and breaks up. Distortion and almost clipping.
Glaringly sibilant and blending between instruments. Piercing. Feels slow? Can’t keep up. Want to turn down.
Double stops sound like painful exploding crystals in your brain
DT880 (C)
Actually adjustable; nice cable. Best build so far?
Kinda flat @ max volume.
These are pretty quiet @ max. Guitar solo struggles a bit on Time. Relatively low bass.
Very flat.
Not enough mids. Just feels totally flat compared to 600’s.
Everything seems to be sitting behind a curtain
HD600 (A)
Comfy, bit tight. Lower bass. Awesome mids. Nice treble.
100% still not terribly loud on anything
Ears a bit hot; probably from clamp. Made the other pairs feel a bit hot as well. I read about "initial clamp force" from new set.
Long weird cable.
Time: Nails the guitar solo better than anything else.
Great Gig: Pretty nice at max. Screaming feels very present.
Music Never Stopped: Lower volume: Relaxing. Nice blending of instruments. Makes me wanna turn up. 60% at around 6:55 double stops = bliss.
Electric Wizard Return Trip - bass failing a bit. Sounds alright.
Best atmosphere and instrument separation.
Just absolute definition. Most human sounding. Never distorted on me.
After all testing I found them probably the most comfortable, though the pads were a bit hot on my ears.
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It's kinda obvious what I liked the most. Honestly the HD600's won by a mile.
I have a new house and a lot of new equipment. I bought the DT770 80ohms and had some serious issues, so I read a lot and bought some other headphones to test it out against. These are 5 new pairs of headphones.
Playing thru laptop > master flac files > focusrite solo [dac] > schitt heresy.
I mostly listened and critically compared playback thru about 5 songs: Pink Floyd - Time & Great Gig in the Sky, Grateful Dead - The Music Never Stopped off Dick's Picks 18, and Electric Wizard - Return Trip for something different.
Some rambley uninformed notes between the pairs:
HD25 (F)
Cable sucks
Very uncomfortable
Definitely more everything than 600s. Rumbly bass. Fatiguing. Gets distorted. Lower resistance obviously.
Return trip sounds a bit lacking… all sibilance.
Time: kinda boring compared to 600
Loud as hell for being closed
Just kicking you in the face with frequencies
DT770 250 (D)
Same fit as 80s
Kinda like the coiled cable
Bass kinda flat? Sibilant.
More kinda static and… bland than 80s. Fatiguing. Also slow. Struggles to keep up it feels like.
Max volume seems sorta quiet.
Guitar struggles to shine.
Great gig: No mids or urgency to woman’s screaming. Sibilant and fatiguing. Ears ringing after.
Feels like everything is in a tunnel
DT770 80 (C)
More clamping force than 880’s. Weird fit on ears IMO.
Uber muddy bass on.. everything. Including Return Trip.
Time: guitar solo a bit boring; fatiguingly sibilant. Definite lack of mids - missing airy quality (probably from being closed).
Great gig - piano and organ override the screaming of the woman
Muddy and breaks up. Distortion and almost clipping.
Glaringly sibilant and blending between instruments. Piercing. Feels slow? Can’t keep up. Want to turn down.
Double stops sound like painful exploding crystals in your brain
DT880 (C)
Actually adjustable; nice cable. Best build so far?
Kinda flat @ max volume.
These are pretty quiet @ max. Guitar solo struggles a bit on Time. Relatively low bass.
Very flat.
Not enough mids. Just feels totally flat compared to 600’s.
Everything seems to be sitting behind a curtain
HD600 (A)
Comfy, bit tight. Lower bass. Awesome mids. Nice treble.
100% still not terribly loud on anything
Ears a bit hot; probably from clamp. Made the other pairs feel a bit hot as well. I read about "initial clamp force" from new set.
Long weird cable.
Time: Nails the guitar solo better than anything else.
Great Gig: Pretty nice at max. Screaming feels very present.
Music Never Stopped: Lower volume: Relaxing. Nice blending of instruments. Makes me wanna turn up. 60% at around 6:55 double stops = bliss.
Electric Wizard Return Trip - bass failing a bit. Sounds alright.
Best atmosphere and instrument separation.
Just absolute definition. Most human sounding. Never distorted on me.
After all testing I found them probably the most comfortable, though the pads were a bit hot on my ears.
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It's kinda obvious what I liked the most. Honestly the HD600's won by a mile.