Comments on Profile Post by Lyander

A Friend and good person let me have a pair to listen to and I'm taking the opportunity to do just that while being as lazy as possible this weekend. Damn. This retailed for USD160??? Damn.

At one point Drop had them for $130. I see used ones for < $100 all the time. I have a pair; I like them, but it is pretty jarring to go back and forth between them and HD6XX.

@ergopower I agree, the HD600 is still an overall more cohesive all-rounder that does certain things *better*. That said, sub bass. Hah.

Recommend the HE-500 with a few mods or (more like AND), though ultra rare, a modded HE-4. The former fills me with
romanticism and dreamyness from head to toe. Excellent extension to both sides, the only headphone that give me mids
like a HD 650, just a bit different, more dreamy, seductive. Overall much better bass.

The HE-4 is fast and agile like a cheetah, very airy and instantaneous. There's no planar like it. Actually I don't know about any other headphone like it. Evan Schaaf mentioned it being like a planar ATH-ADX5000.

I recently got to try the ADX5000 and though I was impressed with its technicalities the tonality was very fatiguing haha. Definitely curious to try an HE4 though! The HE500 I've heard about a lot.

To be honest, not sure about going all in with planars, I'm pretty content with dynamics for now (and building a dedicated system for them...), but if funds allow in the future it'll be a fun project! :)