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    Received them today.
     
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    Headphones arrived today!
     
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    Just arrived. Box fine. Unpacked and quick test on office laptop via the Bose headphone station. Working fine. Real tests later in main rig downstairs.
     
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    Begun the evaluation. I plan to be done evaluating by Wednesday, and will be shipping off on Thursday.

    @HotRatSalad I’ll PM you to get your address deets…
     
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    @HotRatSalad if you see this, please respond to my PM with your shipping deets, etc. thanks
     
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    @HotRatSalad is taking a pass on this go around, says to ship to next in line

    @gaspasser I think that is you… please PM me with your shipping deets; I’ll send it out Thursday PM
     
    Bowmoreman, Apr 23, 2024
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    Hi yes it’s me, but unfortunately I’m going to pass as well. It looks like @Vansen is next.
    Thanks.
     
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    Was it something I said? ;)

    I’ll be posting my impressions likely tomorrow night.
    @Vansen over to you, please shoot me your deets
     
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    Lol no sir, it was something @Erroneous said
     
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    Sent a PM to @Vansen - please get me shipping deets, wanna ship it tomorrow
     
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    Off to @Vansen. Says arrival to you on May 1st (UPS Ground)
     
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    UPS says they arrived, when you get a chance, please confirm @Vansen
     
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    I will ship this out tomorrow. How much I type in the review section depends on how much I feel like shitting on these - my system is purpose built to make Sennheiser HD series headphones sound good, but these sound worse than any other Sennheiser HD series headphone I’ve ever used.
     
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    I should have posted an updated sooner, but UPS is taking their time and I was sick for a couple of days - this will arrive tomorrow.

    I'm still on the fence about posting impressions in the impressions thread. I'm a HD series Senn Bro and I don't like these at all. When comparing next to the stock HD6XX and JAR600, these feel like a big v-shaped HD series headphone with less detail/ resolution, poorer imaging, and worse bass extension than my JAR600. This headphone tries to trick you into thinking it has better resolution by pumping a ton of air into the FR. I also really DISLIKE the vocal presentation on this headphone. I've been listening to a bunch of Taylor Swift recently and her voice sounds fine on all of HD series headphones except this one. On this one, the FR on the fundamentals of her voice sounds off, her voice is hollow, her voice is thin, but most annoying is the sibilance. Taylor Swift does not have a sibilant voice, so I shouldn't be hearing that here - no other headphone I have displays this property with her voice.

    Listening set up was: pi2AES --> modded Sonic Frontiers SFD-1 mkii --> Eddie Current Balancing Act or Ragnarok 1 --> Custom balanced Sennheiser cable.
     
    Vansen, May 16, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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