New headset

[Les]

Originally Posted by T.}{.O.R.

I could mod 555's to get them close to 595's...

HD 598's are currently priced too high...

Thanks for the video, good to know the 555's can be modified so easily, but it does annoy me when companies do stuff like that to differentiate between their upper and lower end products. The headphones should be the same price if those pieces of foam are the main point of difference between the models. IMO they shouldn't be charging more or less for different sounding headphones when their basic structure is so similar.

Just had a look at the 598's, and yeah, more of the same, hard to justify the expense.

I can't really comment on the sound quality of the Sennheiser HD5** series. I tried a pair of high end Sennheisers when I bought the AKG's more than ten years ago and the Sennheisers just sounded tinny to me. But then the AKG's I was comparing them to are known to be very dark sounding and more suited to studio vocal monitoring, so...

I have a pair of Sennheiser HD280 Pro's that I use for field-recording (listening to some music with them now as I write this) and they sound fine, albeit a bit flat and neutral (as they should be when using them for their intended purpose), but they're not that comfortable and they're a closed back design so I wouldn't use them for general listening.

As you say, I don't find any of these headphones mentioned lacking in bass, but I know there are models that do emphasize the bass above all other considerations.