Buy Sennheiser HD 600 Open Dynamic Hi-Fi Professional Stereo Headphones (Black)Sennheiser HD 600 Open Dynamic Hi-Fi Professional Stereo Headphones (Black) Product Description:
- Lightweight aluminum voice coils ensure excellent transient response
- Neodymium ferrous magnets maintain optimum sensitivity and excellent dynamics
- Sophisticated design, elegantly finished in black and gray
- High-quality open metal-mesh earpiece covers
- Detachable, Kevlar-reinforced oxygen-free-copper cable with very low handling noise
Product Description
The HD 600 is an audiophile quality open dynamic hi-fi/professional stereo headphone. The advanced diaphragm design eliminates standing waves in the diaphragm material. The HD 600 can be connected directly to hi-fi systems of the highest quality, in particular DAT, DCC and CD players. This headphone is an ideal choice for the professional recording engineer recording classical music. High-quality open metal mesh earpiece covers for an extremely transparent sound Computer optimized magnet systems minimize harmonic and intermodulation distortion Extremely lightweight aluminum voice coils ensure excellent transient response Neodymium ferrous magnet systems ensure optimum sensitivity and an excellent dynamic response Exceptionally natural, spatial and accurate sound Detachable, Kevlar reinforced, OFC copper cable
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130 of 143 people found the following review helpful.
The Best Dynamic Headphone in the World
By Chad A. Lauterbach
This is the best dynamic headphone in the world, and is rivalved only by the Grado RS-1 headphone. Many studio engineers and audiophile's use these as their REFERENCE headphone...they are a steal for such a high quality headphone. The Grado RS-1 [costs more], and is definately less comfortable than the Sennheisers. These headphones have an extremely detailed, open, airy sound, that nears electrostatic sound. They are also unique in that they suit all types of music very well, they have great punch for rock music, but can perform clasical pieces with all the fullness and detail they were designed.
It should be noted these headphone have an impedance of 300 ohms. Most headphone are 16-32 ohms. What this means is to get the full potential out of them you will need some type of amplifier. Headphone.com offers a couple inexpensive sollutions to this problem, as does audioadvisor.com. Althought they are not true audiophile components, they will greatly enhance your experience with these headphones. If you are planning on travelling with them, you can almost bet you won't be content with their sound when powered only by a portable CD player. I use a Audio Valve RKV Mark II Headphone Amplifier at home, and the headphone.com Airhead on the road. Buy these headphones if you are looking for true audiophile sound, or just the best dynamic headphone, but be aware of their limitations without am amplifier.
151 of 168 people found the following review helpful.Incredible value!
By Bluejack
How can four hundred dollar headphones be a good value?
Consider it this way: Let's call a CD 10 dollars. Let's say you get a certain amount of pleasure from a new CD: new sounds, new music, a new experience to last you a few weeks before it gradually inches its way into the dusty corners of your collection.
Now, let's say you have about 100 CDs.
These headphones are now worth about ... because you have never heard any of those CDs before. These are headphones that revolutionize all the music YOU ALREADY OWN!
But be warned: remember how when CDs first came out there were all those pretentious warnings about how the superior quality of the recording may expose flaws in the master that you could never make out before? I always thought there might be some audiophile somewhere who could hear some "flaw".
But with these headphones you can hear a good studio from a cheap one. I can hear the buzz of unshielded electronics in the second rate studio on some indy cds. Some of my beautiful old classical music suddenly sounds muffled and dead, flattened by an unflattering production job that my speakers could not convey.
The clarity is unreal. Guitar strings are made of gold and they ring clear as crystal; layers of techno pile atop each other in multicolor, multidimensional textures that knock you breathless; the exotic reverberant groan of a cello solo that you have heard a thousand times will bring tears to your cheeks.
And all of this at a fraction of the volume you might play music on your speakers with: these headphones are brilliant and clear and perfect at low volumes. Given their open air construction these things may well preserve your hearing for an additional decade.
I cannot recommend these highly enough.
61 of 68 people found the following review helpful.Could this be a pair of electrostatics?
By A Customer
One of the opuses in the stable of Senheisser's line of headphones was their Orpheus electrostatic headphones that came with an out-of-this-world partnering tube driven amplifier/energiser with an onboard D/A convertor. It came with a nice asking price as well and quantities were limited to say the least. The good news for those who crave the transparency and response of the forementioned electostats, you can. Well almost, with the new HD600s from Sennheiser which was introduced as an improved version of HD580s. Wrong, the HD600s are not just an improvement, they represent a massive leap over the HD580s. This is not to say the HD580s are bad. They're not. But compared to them, the HD600s outdo the former in every department. The upper frequencies have even more air and energy. Large scale orchestras are presented with greater delicacy and precision. Long term wear with the Senheissers are a pleasure. There's non of the usual hot ear syndrome and the headphones can be worn for extended periods of time. There is very little that that the HD600s will miss in the program material presented. If anything can be faulted about the HD600 is that it may actually reveal the inadequecies of the recorded material. Especially if it is a vintage or historical recording. The HD600 also requires a high quality headphone amp if you're to exploit it to the fullest. Better if you can obtain a dedicated headphone amplifier. If you're in the market for a pair of high quality dynamic headphones you can't really go wrong with the HD600s.
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