Sennheiser Hd650 Cable Problems

Was expecting a slight premium for the retail privilege as per usual but nope.

Sennheiser hd650 cable problems.

I m considering purchasing a schiit jot as my first venture into a balanced system but obviously i don t have a balanced cable for my sennheiser hd650 s and need to get one. The comparison was done on a hd650 and hd25 1 amped with 3 channel beta22 and the source is a cec cd5300 cdp. Sennheiser hd 600 vs hd 650. Let s do a detailed comparison of these two headphones across different aspects to understand which is better.

Silver wbt was used for soldering. The cable is reterminated with a 1 4 canare jack. Aesthetically and build quality wise the hd650 cable is miles better than the hd600. The hd25 1 stock cable is a very bad quality one the hd650 cable is better but any aftermarket cable we tried simply betters both of them by quite a margin.

In late 2016 massdrop collaborated with sennheiser to produce this hd650 variant broke their website with pre orders and has since been unable to keep stock of the new model hd6xx. Hey firstly hope i m posting this in the right place. Sennheiser hd 650 is pretty much the most neutral headphones available on the market. Sukira hifi cable with 4 4mm balanced male for sennheiser hd580 hd600 hd650 headphones and sony wm1a nw wm1z pha 2a silver plated audio cable 3 7 out of 5 stars 8 49 99 49.

Sennheiser is one of the leading brands when it comes to headphones and hd 650 as well as hd 600 justify its position as one of the leaders in this segment. However they lack sub bass frequencies below 100 hz and high mids around 2 5 khz need to be tweaked a bit. The hd650 still owns all the land in the sub 500 tier for open backs despite a few competing threats to its 15 years or so reign after it was first released. Upgrading from the stock cable to any of the cables we tried including the diy cat6 will give you a much improved transparency detail and soundstage.

Popped into the hidden hi fi store custom cable today and picked up the hd650 cable for 20 much cheaper than anywhere else and to their credit price matching their own website.