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Sennheiser Consumer Audio HD 650 - Audiophile Hi-Res Open Back Dynamic Headphone, Titan

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Style: HD 650


Features

  • Specially designed acoustic silk ensures precision damping over the entire frequency range and helps to reduce THD to an incredible 0.05 percent
  • Improved frequency response is 10 39,500 Hertz ( 10 dB)
  • Hand selected matched driver elements; Highly optimized magnet systems for minimum harmonic and inter modulation distortion
  • High power neodymium magnets deliver maximum efficiency; 3.5 millimetre jack plug. Frequency response (Headphones):10 41000 Hz
  • Lightweight aluminum voice coils for very fast transient response
  • Cable length 118 inches

Description

In the HD 650, audiophiles will experience truly unique natural sound. With sound this good, long concerts in the comfort of your home are a certainty, so the HD 650 also sets standards in comfort and convenience. The HD 650 is a genuine masterpiece, which will satisfy even the most demanding listener. Putting on the headphones and using them- Put on your headphones and then pull the ear cups down until they rest comfortably over the ears. Make sure you have them the right way round by observing the “R” (right) and “L” (left) markings on the ear cups. For optimum sound quality, ensure that the ear cups are not covered. From the Manufacturer Sennheiser HD 650 With the HD 650, audiophiles will experience truly unique natural sound. With sound this good, long concerts in the comfort of your home are a certainty, so the HD 650 also sets standards in comfort and convenience. The HD 650 is a genuine masterpiece, which will satisfy even the most demanding listener. HD 650 – the Reference Class.Balanced & transparent sound Elegant titanium-silver finish Optimized for hi-resolution recordings Made in Ireland Learn more about the HD 650 Features a specially modulated connecting cable (detachable) made from highly conductive OFC copper, Kevlar-reinforced, with very low handling noise, i.e. low structure-borne sound sensitivity. Features Top-of-the-range open, dynamic hi-fi stereo headphones Systems with narrow tolerances (± 1 dB), hand-picked in pairs High-quality titanium/silver finish Neodymium ferrous magnet systems ensure optimum sensitivity and an excellent dynamic response Exceptionally natural, spatial and accurate sound Can be directly connected to stationary hi-fi components of the highest quality, in particular SACD, DVD-A and CD players Peace of mind - thanks to the 2-year international warranty Did you know? The HD 650 is a true audiophile headphone that features extremely lightweight aluminium voice coils to ensure excellent transient response. Sennheiser recommends this headset for... ... The HD 600 is geared for your hi-fi stereo system. Best suited for all types of audio the HD 600 is a favorite among mastering engineers worldwide. Warranty The HD 650 is covered by a 2-year international warranty. Comparison table HD 600 HD 650 Frequency response 12 - 39000 Hz 10 - 39500 Hz Impedance 300 ohms 300 ohms Transducer principle Dynamic, open Dynamic, open Sound pressure level (SPL) 97 103 dB THD, total harmonic distortion 0.1 % 0.05 % Weight w/o cable 0.57lb (260 g) 0.57lb (260 g) Contact pressure ca. 2,5 N ca. 2,5 N Ear coupling Circumaural Circumaural Jack plug 1/4" / 1/8" (3.5/6.3 mm) stereo 1/4" / 1/8" (3.5/6.3 mm) stereo Warranty 2 Years 2 Years Why Sennheiser ? For over 60 years every Sennheiser mic or headphone comes with a built-in mission: to stay true to the sound and soul the music was given by its artist. From the fragile intimacy of a whispered word to the deep and dark punch of an attacking bassline. Sennheiser delivers pure emotion and excitement. A quality that has convinced a broad spectrum of artists and of course music lovers all over the world. Sennheiser offers a great experience for everyone who really wants to hear. What's in the box? HD 650 1 adaptor to 1/4" (6.3 mm)

Brand: Sennheiser Consumer Audio


Color: Gray


Ear Placement: Over Ear


Form Factor: Over Ear


Noise Control: Sound Isolation


Control Type: Touch Control


Unit Count: 1.0 Count


Item Weight: 9.12 Ounces


UPC: 700615305605 658700901129 615104340497


Global Trade Identification Number: 97, 60


Manufacturer: Sennheiser


Is Autographed: No


Series Number: 508825


Age Range Description: Adult


Package Type: Standard Packaging


Number of Items: 1


Brand: Sennheiser Consumer Audio


Model Number: 508825


Model Name: HD 650


Built-In Media: 3.5 MM Jack and 1/4" connector


Is Electric: No


Antenna Location: Music


Compatible Devices: Laptops, Desktops, Tablets, Cellphones, Music Production Equipment, Car Audio Systems


Cable Features: Jack plug, 3.5mm


Additional Features: lightweight


Enclosure Material: Aluminum, Plastic


Specific Uses For Product: Home


Headphone Folding Features: Over Ear


Earpiece Shape: Rounded


Headphones Ear Placement: Over Ear


Style Name: HD 650


Color: Gray


Wireless Technology: Bluetooth


Connectivity Technology: Wired


Headphone Jack: 3.5 mm Jack


Frequency Range: 10 Hz - 41,000 Hz


Audio Driver Type: Dynamic Driver


Audio Driver Size: 42 Millimeters


Noise Control: Sound Isolation


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  • Heavenly sonic bliss. Achievable even on an iPod without amplifier.
Style: HD 650
HD 650 Heavenly sonic bliss. My favorite headphone. Full rich, lush sounding voices and instruments. Widest sound stage of my headsets with excellent clarity. Very easy to separate and follow various voices and instruments in the music I listen to. Very balanced across the entire range of frequencies without one range over powering another. Everything is very clear. No muddiness of sound. Cybals and chimes crisp and clear. Snare drums nice crisp sound. Bass pleasant with excellent sound decay and appropriate reverberation lasting longer than my other headsets. I can really feel the music around my ears with this headset. The sound envelopes my head instead of feeling like its between my ears. Now I can experience the music rather than just listen to it. Makes music much more enjoyable and realistic sounding. This can be driven by my iPod, iPad, MacBook Pro, Laptops and Desktop PCs without an amplifier. I have no doubt an amplifier will improve the sound, but the sound is already rich and clear without amplification and still better than my other headphones. I'm hearing/experiencing things that I never heard before with my other headsets ... the faint pops that occur from an old LP that has been digitally recorded ... just amazing (from an iPod without amplifier). This is my experience. Your mileage may vary depending upon what you want out of your headsets. Finding the “best headphone" is a very expensive and very subjective journey. Reading reviews can only take one so far. Opinions range far and wide depending upon the reviewers individual tastes, experience with music and what one primarily listens to. Descriptions of the sound in reviews don't always help due to differences in meaning. For example what is described as the veiled Sennheiser sound may be what I call a mellow laid back sound (not sure). My advise is listen to your music with a lot of different headphones and do your own comparisons to determine what you like. What you hear coming from each headphone is going to vary with the design of the headphone, but also modulated by a. the type of music you listen to b. how the recording was originally made (microphones converting analog to electrical then stored on magnetic tape or digitized) b. the quality of the recording you are listening to (especially if digitized, what was truncated if anything) c. the format in which it is recorded and sampling rate d. the equipment you play it on and how it translates the recording back to an electrical impulse to be sent to the headphone e. the headphones themselves (open, closed, type of diaphragm material, how many speakers (i.e. the Shure 500 series has 2 woofers and a tweeter in each ear piece to achieve its balanced sound presentation across its spectrum, I have a gaming headset with multiple speakers) Having said that, the music I listen to is classical to 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, pop, country, jazz, big bands, vocals, instrumentals. I don’t have a dedicated amplifier and play all my headphones on iPods, iPads, iPhones, Mac Book Pros, PCs, Pioneer Tuners. All my headphones sound just fine without an amplifier, but I have no doubt that an amplifier will improve the sound. My music is recorded in MP3 at 320 kbps, but I prefer M4A apple lossless or WAV at 1400 kbps for the best possible digital sound quality. I can hear the difference between 1400 kbps, 320 kbps, and the more compressed music at 192 and 128 which can be found on MP3 sites like the apple store. I convert my CD collection to both 1400 kbps and 320 kbps 44.1 MHz so it can be played at the best quality on whatever system I am using. All my headphones have been broken in with at least a 72 hour continuous play run. My headphones from most favorite to least favorite are Sennheiser HD 650 Shure 500PTH Sennheiser HD 598 AKG K550 Sennheiser HD 555 modified to 595 Sony DLP777 — bright Jaybird Spirit — midtones muffled due covering that prevents sweat getting into ear pieces Sennheiser HD 280 Noise cancellers: Bose QC2 — bass heavy, muddy midtones Bose QC3 — even more bass have, muddy midtones Dr. Dre Beats — too bass heavy, stick to rap and non-critical listening (rap) For me, the HD 650 is a 5 star headphone and by far my favorite of all my headphones. Allows me to truly feel and experience the music I like listening to using the devices I have. My iPods, iPhone, iPads and MacBook Pro can drive this 300 ohm just fine (of course the volume level has to be turned up compared to the lower ohm headphones), but the lush rich realistic sound still comes through better than the other headphones. By feel, I mean that the HD650 diaphragms move so much air around my ears I can feel and experience the music as opposed to just hearing it. The Shure PTH500 can do this in my ear canal. My HD598 does this much better than the HD 555 and has a more pleasant sound to me than the HD555. But none of these come close to the experience I get with my new HD650. It’s like standing in front of a speaker at a concert or DJ’d party except its around me ears instead of having my body feel the sound wave. The timbre, tone, character of the instruments from the HD650 is slightly better than my original reference PTH500. PTH500 and HD650 are better than my other headsets. With these two, I discovered things that I couldn’t hear with the other headsets. Sound stage of the HD650 is wider than the PTH500 which is wider than the other headphones. Both have much better separation of the instruments and vocals and much better clarity which gives the music a more 3 dimensional enjoyable sound. Much easier to pick out individual instruments and so I can more easily play along on piano, guitar etc. With other headsets I have to struggle to hear the individual parts. The Shure 500 has been my favorite reference headphone since 2008. With its sound isolation qualities, I use it when traveling and when I don't want to disturb others around me. The problem with it is that it can eventually be painful on the ear canals and sound quality (bass) is lost when the ear canal seal is lost when moving around or exercising. Additionally, hearing the crunch of food while eating and listening with the 500s is a consequence of in ear monitors. Both the HD650 and PTH500 have the best balance across all sound frequencies with the widest sound stage. The Bose QC2, QC3, and Beats have more emphasis on bass followed by treble at the expense of midtones, so if I want really loud bass, I’ll go with the Beats followed by QC3, then QC2 for lesser degrees of bass punch. The HD 598 was my favorite after the PTH500 because its open design moves a lot of air allowing me to kind of feel the music, but not the extent of the HD650. It has what I consider a more laid back and mellow sound than the HD 555 and PTH500. Kinda relaxing and pleasant. HD555 DLP777 place more emphasis on treble. If I want high energy treble, the HD555 and AKG K550 are my go to headsets. I prefer the open design over the closed headsets because they just move air better with a generally richer sound then my closed headphone Shure 500PTH — best overall balance and 3D clarity while physically blocking outside noise HD 598 -- open, good overall balance, mellow sound AKG 550 — closed, good overall balance. doesn't move air as well as HD598, but good second choice to the 598 HD 280 — closed thin; waste of my money. was never happy with it. Sony MDP 777 — closed, emphasis on treble Bose QC2 — closed moderate bass. muddy midtones Bose QC3 — closed heaviest on bass. muddy midtone So my choices for headsets boil down to Best overall sonic experience: HD650 Best outside noise reduction/isolation and overall sonic experience: Shure 500 series Best to minimize noise spill into the surrounding environment when I can’t use the Shure 500: AKG 550 Best for heavy bass emphasis: In order from least bass to intense bass: Bose QC2, QC3, Dr. Dre Beats Ultimately the “best” headset is a subjective opinion depending upon what you want to hear and/or experience out of your music. There is a huge sliding scale of perceived quality. I wouldn’t recommend spending much on an expensive headset if your music is 128 kbps compressed. But then again, it is cheaper to just buy 1 headset and grow into it rather than spend lots of money working ones way up to the holy grail of headsets. If I knew then what I know now, I would have just bought the HD650 and stopped there. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2015 by Mark Estrada

  • Come Down the Rabbit Hole (So Worth It)
Style: HD 650
These are the first step. Like anyone looking to make this kind of investment for headphones I did a lot of reading before buying. That is only going to get you so far. You need to hear these. Ten years ago I listened to a pair of HD600 straight off a disc-man with NO amp. I was completely blown away, I set out to find the perfect headphones for one hundred dollars, that was a mistake. I kept buying headphones in that range over the years and nothing came close. I was torn between these and the 600's, but decided that I loved the look of these and a few reviews pushed me to get the 650's. I highly suggest going to Guitar Center or some place that you can compare them, I believe the 600's maybe the superior sounding ones (it's always the ugly ones). It's been said that a good set up is the Lehmann Audio Black Cube Linear amp/HD600 using a 650 headphone cable. But there is no way I'm paying that kind of money for an amp... I'm not an expert and I don't plan to collect anymore headphones (unless I end up with a pile of extra money). If you are just getting into quality sound, these will destroy what you thought was possible for home listening. Even without burn-in, and an expensive amp and listening to a 128kbps file in itunes, you will want to throw out your old headphones, you will look at them with disgust and you will start ripping everything you own at lossless. These only get better with everything you bring to them, they are hungry for better. More than likely I'll be getting a Schiit amp as my first amp. Currently running these from an Apogee One for digtial or a Technics SA-5170 for vinyl and happy with this setup. I'd love to understand why people think these should have a dedicated amp. Things that you will notice when you listen. The sound stage will be expanded, the clarity and richness will be improved, the separation: you will hear things you never noticed (one voice will clearly become 3 layered voices, one piano will become 4, fingers will slide on strings) everything will become a personal concert. If you are on the fence about these don't hesitate, it's like going from and old TV to a HUGE HD one with bluray. If you are an audio pro, you probably already own these. If you didn't like something about these and you think they need to be amped, you have more money than brains (or very good hearing). If you want to significantly improve your daily enjoyment of music, buy these now. Like everyone else says there are cons: The band is tight, they are open so you can hear everything in the room (ie keyboard clicks and talking) and people can hear the headphones. These are most likely for home use only. Good thing they look more comfortable than most of the furniture in my house. You should know by now what you are getting into with these. These come in a huge foam lined box, there was nothing to cut, no way to tell if it had ever been opened or not. The cord is kevlar (think bulletproof vests) and replaceable, one time I sucked them into the vacuum roller (not this pair), seemed bad but survived (HD 495). They are light and comfortable to wear for me (not as comfy as my HD 428). They look amazing, much better than the HD600's. I think there is a lot that could be improved about how they are built (comfort and usability), but I'm insane when it comes to small details. You will want a multi-disc player or good quality digital music (big hard drive). What I listened to so far: NIN, Tool, The Cinematic Orchestra, Sam Prekop, Zoe Keating, Underworld, Aphex Twin, Miles Davis, Amadeus Soundtrack, Kodo, Led Zeppelin, Billy McLaughlin, Doomtree, Yo-Yo Ma, Alice in Chains (unplugged), Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Nirvana and Jimi. And I'll go to bed after I listen to everything that exists... These shine with live and acoustic tracks. Don't wait 10 years like I did. Get them now and start hearing your music for the first time. So worth it. On a side note, I'd consider getting a second pair of these rather than spending the money for a nice surround sound system. I figure the audio is as good but much cheaper. If Schiit is reading consider making an amp for movie buffs and their girlfriends to share. Update: I'd suggest the wireless HDR 120 for TV and Movies. Update: I recently found the Monolith Liquid Platinum amp for a great price as an open box almost half price from their own site. I also found XLR cables to swap for the headphones and for my CD player to the amp. I am extremely happy with this upgrade and was skeptical that it would make any difference but I am glad I invested. No regrets. A friend had recommended the Monolith Liquid Spark (probably a good option if you aren’t changing out the cables or have a lower budget), but once I found the deal on the Platinum I was determined to get that as my end game amp. I admit I should have made the investment sooner but it took me a few years too save up the money. Don’t waste these headphones maximize their potential with an amp. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2012 by L. Olson

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