Comments on Profile Post by Muse Wanderer

Oh for the benefit of hindsight in advance! Still, it's going to be interesting..

Utopia is great with classical, though I do miss the HD800's wider stage sometimes. Did you ever try the HD600?

That's kinda the point, @zonto - the Utopia is one of the few cans that doesn't have that upper-mid suckout that can eat violins and so forth.. It's ludicrous how few choices there are that don't fail at this, I'm trying hard to unlearn how to hear it, so far with limited success, it's a bit "don't think about the elephant".

@Kattefjaes - sorry for showing you that Bruckner 5th passage that breaks almost all headphones I heard at meets! It does show how good the HD650 is at rendering it, right? :-)

@zonto - I will expect a narrow stage but the HD800/S relies on the sucked upper mids to render it. The sound on Yggdrasil Rag could be a surprise as the brightish sound I heard might have been the Naim amp at the meet.

@zonto - did not listen to HD600 but the HD650 unfortunately. It was either HD650 or Utopia. Chose the crazily priced one. I just had to! :-)