I recently downloaded Scarlet Fire and listened to it for the first time. It sounded so much better than I remembered because every time I hear it is on this channel and it is always being played through dying earbuds.
I really like the shrieking ring modulated sound lol. The way the modulator frequency is really low during the sustained bits and how it spikes during the upward glides is fun
So my review: I liked the HD600s but the HD600s did sound a tad clearer. Although the HD600s had more bass, I preferred that more detailed sound from the HD600s.
fun fact: when "comparing" hd600 vs hd600 my ears were so much waiting for something to change in the audio man, at this point it's like they recognize the song and just expect for the sound to be different in every possible way...
I'm so conditioned for there to be a change that my brain started lying to me and going "Nah nah you can hear the difference mate" every time the camera zoomed in...
First hearing the Senheiser HD600 made me think "ah yeah that's not too bad" and then switching back to them after listening to the Audeze felt unreal. What a difference.
Yes but this recording of the HD600 is off. It doesn't sound right and has a weird distortion, akin of white noise. I own the HD600 and can tell you that this track sounds nowhere like what the sample playback in Dank's videos suggests.
@松下 it's because the minidsp ears are actually quite bad as a headphone recorder and measurment rig. It's not like a proper rig which as an ear canal and human like acoustic impedance. The ears are very inaccurate and end up emphasizing frequencies in unnatural ways
@@MacPhantom exactly, I have an HD600 and it’s nothing like this. Sound demos on youtube are not really representative. There is a lot of compression and degradation in quality and it’s kind of stupid anyways. It’s jut for fun. Don’t make decisions based on that ahaha
Dude, you can really tell how passionate and how deep music and audio hits Wade whenever he starts tearing up thinking about AKG's history. What a genuine and sincere creator we have here, he deserves to be where he is.
Headphone power is weirdly complicated. Designing an amp that can handle high and low impedance, high and low sensitivities. Not many are perfect at all these tasks. Good video topic
Because of the videos on this channel, I decided to upgrade my headphones from Arctis 3 to a pair of Senny HD 599. I was hot swapping between the pair with “Walk Through the Park” playing and the difference was almost eye-watering. I had never heard anything sound like that before, I dropped an “oh my God” for how stunned I was. Thanks for directing me into openbacks, Dank. Add-On: for those wondering, they sound amazing. Copped mine for 115 USD and they are stunning to see, brown velour ear pads and headrest with a cream-coloured housing for the electronics.
Pretty good choice, but if you want to get blown away, check out the HD 560S. Yes, the number is lower. And they’re not all that bassy. But man those things are microscopes for music. That was the first time I really noticed there was a difference between high quality Spotify and Apple Lossless. Love them with my BTR5.
Should try the HD600/6XX next, there's a reason Wade uses them for his benchmarks and they've been legendary for a good reason. If the 599s blew your mind, 600s are even better in detail retrieval.
@@jacobrzeszewski6527 The 560s are so damn flat and analytical that they make for great mixing headphones as well. with a good source these really are a hidden gem
its a phenomenally important point in every artist's career when they have developed a style so distinct, that they themselves are finally able to make a joke out of it with the audience. Thanks mate! Keep it up.
Glad to see you touch on this more. Using just the impedance can cause quite a bit of confusion, so it's nice to also mention to look at sensitivity as well.
Also, quick note, HD600 are 103dB/v. They were rated 97dB/mW when that unit was more common, but now, with most headphones being rated by voltage rather than power. So, going by voltage, their sensitivity is 103. (The Sennheiser website says 97db/v, but this is thought to be an error where someone may have updated the unit but not the number. Third-party measurments also come to around 103dB/v)
"This is what they were hearing in the studio, this is how it sounded:" Nah m8, they may have used those headphones to check the mix, but music is and always was primarily mixed on speakers.
I'm so used to the audio quality changing on the freakish ears demo track that I was legitimately discomforted when it didn't change for the HD600 showoff
I've watched videos where you have talked about almost all of these headphones already but I could listen to you explain the same thing 1000 times before I get bored of your content. One of the best TH-camrs I could have ever found.
One of the OG units of Hifiman HE-6 was measured at sensitivity of 77db. At the time they required a speaker amp, because there were no good enough headphone amps.
You can get a bit more power out of the balanced output. I'm not sure if you can fit balanced cables for the AKG K340, but if you can, you might be able to use your DAP with them on batteries only
You've trained my brain to expect the tone and sound of that audio clip to shift every few seconds, it's actually makes the whole clip sound weird to me.
I'm no audiophile, but does this make sense? Whatever volume setting you put on your amp is the voltage level, and whatever ohm rating you plug into that determines the power (P=V^2/R), and the sensitivity is how much power per 'sound' you need.
@3:38 the HD600 compared to itself made me realise for the first time that those are NOT how my own headphones sound, so I decided to compare your HD600 recording to the original track played through my headphones. I think in the future you could also include an original snippet of the track for comparison, against the HD600 and the audiences' own headphones :)
I can confirm, although I use some misodiko mesh pads so that changed the sound of it just a little bit. I have a feeling that its the recording of the measurement machines he uses that might cause the diff in sound
This is a hilarious video to me, cause I usually listen to your videos with my roomies on either my phone speaker or a Bluetooth speaker, but today I not only finally watched your video on my main computer, but also on my new headphones (Skullcandy SLYR Pro series cause I had a coupon). So I FINALLY got to truly hear the subtle differences in the headphone comparison portions! Absolutely blew my damn mind and got me cackling so loud I spooked my cat.
I recently got a K340 for myself used for 112 bucks. Thanks for your recommendation Wade! I do have enough power to juice this monster (Topping DX3 Pro+, great headphone amp+dac!), they sound just heavenly!
This will sound insane but since 2012 I have bought 6 K340 phones, 2 1st gen K240 and 4 white passive K240(2 had the orange rings). Once you get that heavy or neutral K340 its unreal how good it is compared to most modern cans. I just got a set of LCD-2 early model ordered so Ill see how modern hifi cans sound. BTW im using a little dot MK3 with Yugo front tubes in the living room and a old Yamaha A32 in my backroom(mainly cuz its where my big speakers are at) and that Yamaha has surprised me for the power hungry cans. Its true they really need power from a speaker amp or a high end headphone amp. Anyway I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. I gave 2 of my 240s to friends and its been their daily drivers for years.
I have a set of the K340s, damn they sound good on a tube amp. Also, the K340s have like 3 or so different versions. Bass neutral, bass heavy, and I believe there is a base lite version. You will have to look under the grill to see what color the drivers are. They will tell you which version you have. Gray is heavy, black/red are neutral, and green is lite.
Speaking of home desktop headphone amps, I'd love to see you do a video on those. I use a HiFiman EF2A and the fact that it uses vacuum tubes always fascinates me.
Guitar amps still often use vacuum tubes too. They're preferred for guitar because they'll start to clip the signal beyond a certain volume, giving you an overdriven sound.
yeah, despite solid state amplification being technically superior in many ways, some people still cling to tube amplification, especially guitarists. it's supposedly because tubes clip the signal in a fundamentally different way from transistors, producing more even harmonics that sound "sweeter". but you only hear that effect if the signal is pushed so hard that it clips and distorts, and for a listening situation that's not what you're looking for
Wade, I'd love to send you an amp or dac/amp from Mayflower Electronics - they're local to me in Upstate NY and they're assembled in CT (or at least the Arc Mini is), so it's keeping things small and local like the Grados. (Plus, I just dig the fact that a relatively well regarded boutique manufacturer decided to stick around here of all places.)
I think it's interesting how TH-cam compression really ruins the high end on the headphone recording. I've listened to some K240 Sextetts before and the highs are super crisp, not fuzzy or tinny like they record as. (Also good to see the absurd power requirements finally validated, I don't listen to them very loud so I've always wondered if they take as much juice as people say.)
If you want to compare stink mathematically, use this equation: *_Volume = 10⁽ˢᵉⁿˢᶦᵗᶦᵛᶦᵗʸ/²⁰⁾ / ohms_* Using the properties of BODE diagrams (mathematics term for frequency response graps)
the best part of getting the HD 600's: store guy: HEH... U HAVE AN AMP FOR THOSE :) ? me: a what ? store guy: DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE WE GO! 😍 I hate how much money I have spent in tube amplifiers
I use the original SONY PHA-1 USB amp. It's pretty good value for money. Actually watched this video using the SONY PHA-1 ($300~) and a pair of XCD BTOE1 headphones from JB Hifi that cost $30.
I've been so conditioned to hear a difference when comparing headphones with "that song" that I could have sworn the HD600s sounded brighter than the HD600s. Cheers mate!
Hey don't know, if ya heard but KZ now makes Planar earbuds Yes, PLANAR EARSTICKS, they call em PR with PR1 And PR1 Pro as there line up With PROs coming in at 246 Aussie bucks while the normal/old version costs 50 bucks less (those prices are without sale)
I'm ready for the day I get some proper stink headphones; I've got a 600 Ohm Sound Blaster card in my computer. My 32 Ohm Samson SR850s become a bit too loud at only 12% volume.
The HD600 is surprisingly easy to drive btw. Even a phone can do it with a dongle. Of course it won’t get loud, but it will still be an enjoyable listening experience. Would you want to do it? You can, but please don’t carry them with the 3 metres long stock cable. Also don’t expect to have a lot of headroom if you need that for production, but any interface will give you enough power to do that. Finally we have a video that doesn’t just tell you high impedance means you need more power. No it does not lmao, low sensitivity and high impedance means you need loads more power and that’s pretty rare nowadays.
So you say Ohms are not a good refrence for how "stinky" your headphones are however, when sticking exclusively to standard dynamic driver headphones it's pretty much directly related to the volume, with outliers depending upon oversized drivers bringing down the frequency response but not by any large margin.
It's always interesting to me to sort through which of each headphone I like better when you do these comparisons, cause I learn more and more about what I want when I finally get some more overears. So far I'm down to "balanced mids, slightly boosted bass, and for God's sake no super bright and tinny uppers!" Probably comes from having played drums in band and knowing what the cymbals are supposed to sound like. They're suprisingly low in tone, at least the ones my school had, the high pitched tss was more of a highlight than the main sound. And that's all I get from the HurrDurr600s.
Hey Dank, great video! However I noticed that all the headphones just sound like my smart wifi enabled washing machine’s speakers? Maybe there was an issue in the upload? Let me know dude ❤
I've gotta hand it to DankPods, dude is just making videos about a passion for audio and he's gotten me into it as well. I'm now listening to lossless quality music out of my Fiio M11 Plus ESS with my Moondrop Blessing 2 Dusks with a balanced cable, and I'm now looking into getting some DT990 Pros, possibly custom made by Custom Cans Thank you mate
Impedance is a useful metric because it's really easy to measure scientifically. But it's only tangentially related to volume, it's a measure of electrical resistance after all. Whereas sensitivity is literally a measure of volume, but it's a much less scientific number. You'll see different numbers for a headphone's sensitivity depending on who measures them, and this is because it depends on measuring equipment, seal, acoustics and pink noise control etc. If you're really unsure whether you'll be able to drive a headphone, I recommend finding someone who has given a sensitivity score to the headphone you're after and a headphone you own. That way you can usually assume they'll have measured both with the same equipment and the relative difference will be trustworthy.
I have a set of the K240s, from the 70s. I love to listen to them purely for the toms and the snares, they make me feel warm and fuzzy. I highly recommend Alice in Chains Unplugged on vinyl for a listen through them.
what is your opinion on the Beyerdynamic DT 990 pros? i want to pick up a pair to game with and listen to music, but I don't have an amp or anything just the pack of mu motherboard any advice would be awesome
HD600s are a lot easier to drive than I thought, because of the sensitivity. My Focusrite Scarlett Solo that plugs into a USB port, works just fine for them. Good thing too, my $100 amp becomes unbalanced and scratchy when you turn the knob, it's frustrating
Hearing the 600s vs the 600s reminded me that every time I listen to Walk Through The Park myself, I expect the audio to go horrible at that first break.
This brings up my preferences...I absolutely adore Audio Technica's ATH-M50X over-ear headphones...they can be driven by a phone or portable CD player fairly easily...but I own a Schiit Audio Asgard 2 headphone amp...class A power up to 1 watt!! The way the amp lights up the audio from the ATH-M50X's is INSANE! Quality power with headroom makes an incredibly nice change to the music. Sure I could drive damn near any pair of headphones with the Asgard 2...it really does have a noticable and healthy impact.
I'll be honest, I'm confused on the scoring scale. Is the score the top volume before distortion happens or the lowest volume which is clearly audible on the ears? Was it the volume which matched the volume on the HurrDurrs or... I mean, it was a good video I just really had no idea if anything was good or bad or... what. I mean, I guess none of them were bad but I really have no idea what I even just watched. I liked the omnious Six Hungos slowly crawling out of my TV like the chick from the Ring though.
the hd600s being tested against the hd600s is the best bit of comedy i've seen all week, keep up the good work dank man!
Better yet, I'm listen to this using my hd600s :-D
Not me reading hd600 as Huh-Duh600 🤣
who won?
It killed me
@@JimmyJoints the hears of course
I recently downloaded Scarlet Fire and listened to it for the first time. It sounded so much better than I remembered because every time I hear it is on this channel and it is always being played through dying earbuds.
It's a nicely produced song for anything in TH-cam's audio library.
I really like the shrieking ring modulated sound lol. The way the modulator frequency is really low during the sustained bits and how it spikes during the upward glides is fun
Well use of the spectrum with thick bass but also crispy treble. Not a bad sound to test.
The slow zoom on the sennys every 2 measures made me giggle uncontrollably, keep winning wade 😂
Came down here to say the same thing. Good on ya mate!
technically every 4 measures, but indeed fun
this really improved my mood. 10/10 joke
I laughed out loud after that first zoom in.
Kinda gave me anxiety ngl xD
3:53 damn that lack of sound change is disturbing. So used to a different sound every time that i am startled by it!
im not the only one like it just sounds wrong for the song to not change in quality
it feels so off lmao
Hearing the full track with no change has made the huhduh six hunjohs a lot more intimidating
Agreed, what an epic battle that was
/s
"We ARE the reference, you need know no other"
It was strangely unsettling hearing NO change.
It feels like there should be a change lol
they’re approaching
So my review:
I liked the HD600s but the HD600s did sound a tad clearer. Although the HD600s had more bass, I preferred that more detailed sound from the HD600s.
How *THE HELL* can you tell the difference between an HD600 and a HD600!?
Are you a robot or something?? 🤔
Overall, the HD600s have strong bass, and they're balanced with very clear treble.
7.8/10 too much mids
fun fact: when "comparing" hd600 vs hd600 my ears were so much waiting for something to change in the audio man, at this point it's like they recognize the song and just expect for the sound to be different in every possible way...
I'm so conditioned for there to be a change that my brain started lying to me and going "Nah nah you can hear the difference mate" every time the camera zoomed in...
@@Krusha80 So true, I swear to Dank there was a small difference every time it zoomed in, my brain wouldn't lie to me would it?!
Pra valer
It's really interesting how our brains work
First hearing the Senheiser HD600 made me think "ah yeah that's not too bad" and then switching back to them after listening to the Audeze felt unreal. What a difference.
Yes but this recording of the HD600 is off. It doesn't sound right and has a weird distortion, akin of white noise. I own the HD600 and can tell you that this track sounds nowhere like what the sample playback in Dank's videos suggests.
@MacPhantom maybe it's TH-cam's audio compression
@松下 it's because the minidsp ears are actually quite bad as a headphone recorder and measurment rig. It's not like a proper rig which as an ear canal and human like acoustic impedance. The ears are very inaccurate and end up emphasizing frequencies in unnatural ways
@@sidesaladaudio this. HD600s should sound fairly transparent to the source.
@@MacPhantom exactly, I have an HD600 and it’s nothing like this. Sound demos on youtube are not really representative. There is a lot of compression and degradation in quality and it’s kind of stupid anyways. It’s jut for fun. Don’t make decisions based on that ahaha
listening to this through the earbuds that came bundled with a phone from 7 years ago, I'm sure I will truly be getting the full experience from this
Get yourself a pair that can be used with an autoeq app
Me with my 25 bucks Bluetooth earphones 😔
Listening with samsung egg buds while having sinus pressure so my ears aren't ear-ing (?) Properly. I'm sure I'll get the full experience too
Listening it through my blown-out phone speakers is the real true experience
I'm using tiny desktop speakers that cost 20 bucks and came with RGB lights that don't match. definitely also having the full experience here
Dude, you can really tell how passionate and how deep music and audio hits Wade whenever he starts tearing up thinking about AKG's history. What a genuine and sincere creator we have here, he deserves to be where he is.
"Headphones are a lot like cars"
*stares at Tony*
Tony would be like dirtybuds from a 10 year old nugg box
@@tyson464 Oh he has found worse than that!
I remember the video of weird vintage headphones and dang there was some stinkers.
Wouldn't Tony be the single earbud our Dank host featured once with a cord longer than even the stinkiest of the stinky headphones in this video?
that's AN car
Swiss toni?
Headphone power is weirdly complicated. Designing an amp that can handle high and low impedance, high and low sensitivities. Not many are perfect at all these tasks. Good video topic
@@scorpioassmodeusgtx1811 I like wasting my time :)
4:13 You know why ohms are stinky as a power measurement? BECAUSE IT'S A UNIT OF RESISTANCE/REACTANCE/IMPEDANCE AND NOT POWER
I'm always excited to hear the HD600's no matter what comes after
Ah, but did you ever expect the same HD600 come after the HD600?
huh duh six hungeos
@@RealNeonPlayz by ol m8 senny
But all the other Headphone in this Video are better
@@TinchoX Pleasant surprise, I'll say
The camera punching in on the HD600 at the right timing is brilliant 😂
DankPods: Does a listen test on only the HD600
Me: But he's still going to do the camera cuts right?
DankPods: You know it Mate!
Embiggening HD600 aren't real, it can't get you.
3:43.
Because of the videos on this channel, I decided to upgrade my headphones from Arctis 3 to a pair of Senny HD 599. I was hot swapping between the pair with “Walk Through the Park” playing and the difference was almost eye-watering. I had never heard anything sound like that before, I dropped an “oh my God” for how stunned I was. Thanks for directing me into openbacks, Dank.
Add-On: for those wondering, they sound amazing. Copped mine for 115 USD and they are stunning to see, brown velour ear pads and headrest with a cream-coloured housing for the electronics.
Pretty good choice, but if you want to get blown away, check out the HD 560S. Yes, the number is lower. And they’re not all that bassy. But man those things are microscopes for music. That was the first time I really noticed there was a difference between high quality Spotify and Apple Lossless. Love them with my BTR5.
@@jacobrzeszewski6527 ah, you never forget your first pair which shows-up the difference between high-bitrate AAC/OGG and FLAC (or just a CD I guess).
How are the 599s treating you? Went from Audio Technica m20x to those, and god the comfort and sound is loads better
Should try the HD600/6XX next, there's a reason Wade uses them for his benchmarks and they've been legendary for a good reason. If the 599s blew your mind, 600s are even better in detail retrieval.
@@jacobrzeszewski6527 The 560s are so damn flat and analytical that they make for great mixing headphones as well. with a good source these really are a hidden gem
its a phenomenally important point in every artist's career when they have developed a style so distinct, that they themselves are finally able to make a joke out of it with the audience. Thanks mate! Keep it up.
Therapist: zoomed HD 600s don't exist, they can't hurt you
Zoomed in HD 600's:
that part made me lose it
This channel has showed me just how nice music can sound without having to hear it live. Thanks Mr.Pods
Mr pods 😂😂
I swear. I SWEAR I hear a difference in the HD600 clips. I don't know how, I don't know why, but they sound different. My brain is broken.
Optical illusion affects audio hearing my freinds oooPoooOoooooooo
Glad to see you touch on this more. Using just the impedance can cause quite a bit of confusion, so it's nice to also mention to look at sensitivity as well.
Always a pleasure to see a new Dankpods video
"Should I buy the HD600S or the HD600S?"
Wade: "I got u mate"
Also, quick note, HD600 are 103dB/v. They were rated 97dB/mW when that unit was more common, but now, with most headphones being rated by voltage rather than power. So, going by voltage, their sensitivity is 103.
(The Sennheiser website says 97db/v, but this is thought to be an error where someone may have updated the unit but not the number. Third-party measurments also come to around 103dB/v)
"This is what they were hearing in the studio, this is how it sounded:"
Nah m8, they may have used those headphones to check the mix, but music is and always was primarily mixed on speakers.
ah yes, we all need a headphone stink-a-thon in life!
I'm so used to the audio quality changing on the freakish ears demo track that I was legitimately discomforted when it didn't change for the HD600 showoff
I've watched videos where you have talked about almost all of these headphones already but I could listen to you explain the same thing 1000 times before I get bored of your content. One of the best TH-camrs I could have ever found.
One of the OG units of Hifiman HE-6 was measured at sensitivity of 77db. At the time they required a speaker amp, because there were no good enough headphone amps.
Audeze LCD 4 were famously hard to drive, but I think the AKG K1000 is the least sensitive of all.
You can get a bit more power out of the balanced output. I'm not sure if you can fit balanced cables for the AKG K340, but if you can, you might be able to use your DAP with them on batteries only
Yes zooming makes a very much difference, as the headphone looks different
You've trained my brain to expect the tone and sound of that audio clip to shift every few seconds, it's actually makes the whole clip sound weird to me.
I'm no audiophile, but does this make sense? Whatever volume setting you put on your amp is the voltage level, and whatever ohm rating you plug into that determines the power (P=V^2/R), and the sensitivity is how much power per 'sound' you need.
That Marcos Valle appearance caught me off guard. Such a great album.
r/suddenlycaralho
this is a legendary moment in Dankpods history 3:38
The full hd600 sample was weird to hear, lmao. Great video, Dank! Thanks for consistently uploading, and maintaining the quality of your content!
You gotta appreciate a man, listening to Brazilian music 7:51
btw, I'm from Brazil
@3:38 the HD600 compared to itself made me realise for the first time that those are NOT how my own headphones sound, so I decided to compare your HD600 recording to the original track played through my headphones.
I think in the future you could also include an original snippet of the track for comparison, against the HD600 and the audiences' own headphones :)
I can confirm, although I use some misodiko mesh pads so that changed the sound of it just a little bit. I have a feeling that its the recording of the measurement machines he uses that might cause the diff in sound
7:45 BRAZIL MENTIONED!!!!!!!
Me listening to the freakish ears on my phone speakers be like: “Hm yes, the sound sounds like sound.”
You can replace the headband foam on your HD 600! The part is only like $30, and it makes world of difference.
This is a hilarious video to me, cause I usually listen to your videos with my roomies on either my phone speaker or a Bluetooth speaker, but today I not only finally watched your video on my main computer, but also on my new headphones (Skullcandy SLYR Pro series cause I had a coupon). So I FINALLY got to truly hear the subtle differences in the headphone comparison portions! Absolutely blew my damn mind and got me cackling so loud I spooked my cat.
I recently got a K340 for myself used for 112 bucks. Thanks for your recommendation Wade!
I do have enough power to juice this monster (Topping DX3 Pro+, great headphone amp+dac!), they sound just heavenly!
This will sound insane but since 2012 I have bought 6 K340 phones, 2 1st gen K240 and 4 white passive K240(2 had the orange rings). Once you get that heavy or neutral K340 its unreal how good it is compared to most modern cans. I just got a set of LCD-2 early model ordered so Ill see how modern hifi cans sound. BTW im using a little dot MK3 with Yugo front tubes in the living room and a old Yamaha A32 in my backroom(mainly cuz its where my big speakers are at) and that Yamaha has surprised me for the power hungry cans. Its true they really need power from a speaker amp or a high end headphone amp.
Anyway I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. I gave 2 of my 240s to friends and its been their daily drivers for years.
@@insurgentlowcash7564 I got the bassy version (not bassy like modern bass cans),
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!
1970s headphones were great you could wire it up and listen to music as you walked to the bakery
I have a set of the K340s, damn they sound good on a tube amp. Also, the K340s have like 3 or so different versions. Bass neutral, bass heavy, and I believe there is a base lite version. You will have to look under the grill to see what color the drivers are. They will tell you which version you have. Gray is heavy, black/red are neutral, and green is lite.
because of how used to a difference i am between the huh duh six-hungeos and some other headphones, i’m convinced my brain is making up differences.
Speaking of home desktop headphone amps, I'd love to see you do a video on those. I use a HiFiman EF2A and the fact that it uses vacuum tubes always fascinates me.
Guitar amps still often use vacuum tubes too. They're preferred for guitar because they'll start to clip the signal beyond a certain volume, giving you an overdriven sound.
yeah, despite solid state amplification being technically superior in many ways, some people still cling to tube amplification, especially guitarists. it's supposedly because tubes clip the signal in a fundamentally different way from transistors, producing more even harmonics that sound "sweeter". but you only hear that effect if the signal is pushed so hard that it clips and distorts, and for a listening situation that's not what you're looking for
0:07 that Tacoma is EXACTLY like I mean to every body panel and color and TRD and package like my dads.
4:02.. the second pair sounded the best
i once blew up an amplifier with bass i love you
the subwoofers would move with no signal from anything which was very healthy
1:37 secret face reveal??
He's revealed his face a few times. Somes times talking directly to the camera, or on the drum stream where he's in full view
"It's got all of the holes."
That's what she said 🤣🤣🤣
Wade, I'd love to send you an amp or dac/amp from Mayflower Electronics - they're local to me in Upstate NY and they're assembled in CT (or at least the Arc Mini is), so it's keeping things small and local like the Grados. (Plus, I just dig the fact that a relatively well regarded boutique manufacturer decided to stick around here of all places.)
3:57 Rare HurrDurr 600 Jumpscare
The zoom on the HD600s is killing me lmao I’ve never heard that sample all the way through
It was an interesting experience to say the least, lol.
All the music legend making an appearance , the huh duh, tge freakish ear on a stand, i absolutely love this
I think it's interesting how TH-cam compression really ruins the high end on the headphone recording. I've listened to some K240 Sextetts before and the highs are super crisp, not fuzzy or tinny like they record as. (Also good to see the absurd power requirements finally validated, I don't listen to them very loud so I've always wondered if they take as much juice as people say.)
If you want to compare stink mathematically, use this equation:
*_Volume = 10⁽ˢᵉⁿˢᶦᵗᶦᵛᶦᵗʸ/²⁰⁾ / ohms_*
Using the properties of BODE diagrams (mathematics term for frequency response graps)
Aw man, you have no idea how much excitement I get when I see a new vid of yours in my feed. 😆
the best part of getting the HD 600's:
store guy: HEH... U HAVE AN AMP FOR THOSE :) ?
me: a what ?
store guy: DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE WE GO!
😍 I hate how much money I have spent in tube amplifiers
Let's be real, Wade makes us all laugh and helps us with depression
I use the original SONY PHA-1 USB amp. It's pretty good value for money.
Actually watched this video using the SONY PHA-1 ($300~) and a pair of XCD BTOE1 headphones from JB Hifi that cost $30.
I've been so conditioned to hear a difference when comparing headphones with "that song" that I could have sworn the HD600s sounded brighter than the HD600s. Cheers mate!
Hey don't know, if ya heard but KZ now makes Planar earbuds
Yes, PLANAR EARSTICKS, they call em PR with PR1 And PR1 Pro as there line up
With PROs coming in at 246 Aussie bucks while the normal/old version costs 50 bucks less (those prices are without sale)
I'm ready for the day I get some proper stink headphones; I've got a 600 Ohm Sound Blaster card in my computer. My 32 Ohm Samson SR850s become a bit too loud at only 12% volume.
With Yellow Magic Orchestra at the top, I know that's going to be a superb playlist
The HD600 is surprisingly easy to drive btw. Even a phone can do it with a dongle. Of course it won’t get loud, but it will still be an enjoyable listening experience. Would you want to do it? You can, but please don’t carry them with the 3 metres long stock cable. Also don’t expect to have a lot of headroom if you need that for production, but any interface will give you enough power to do that. Finally we have a video that doesn’t just tell you high impedance means you need more power. No it does not lmao, low sensitivity and high impedance means you need loads more power and that’s pretty rare nowadays.
He’s back! The headphone killer is back!
So you say Ohms are not a good refrence for how "stinky" your headphones are however, when sticking exclusively to standard dynamic driver headphones it's pretty much directly related to the volume, with outliers depending upon oversized drivers bringing down the frequency response but not by any large margin.
It's always interesting to me to sort through which of each headphone I like better when you do these comparisons, cause I learn more and more about what I want when I finally get some more overears. So far I'm down to "balanced mids, slightly boosted bass, and for God's sake no super bright and tinny uppers!" Probably comes from having played drums in band and knowing what the cymbals are supposed to sound like. They're suprisingly low in tone, at least the ones my school had, the high pitched tss was more of a highlight than the main sound. And that's all I get from the HurrDurr600s.
ah yes, a dankpods video. the best form of serotonin
Hey Dank, great video! However I noticed that all the headphones just sound like my smart wifi enabled washing machine’s speakers? Maybe there was an issue in the upload? Let me know dude ❤
I've gotta hand it to DankPods, dude is just making videos about a passion for audio and he's gotten me into it as well. I'm now listening to lossless quality music out of my Fiio M11 Plus ESS with my Moondrop Blessing 2 Dusks with a balanced cable, and I'm now looking into getting some DT990 Pros, possibly custom made by Custom Cans
Thank you mate
Impedance is a useful metric because it's really easy to measure scientifically. But it's only tangentially related to volume, it's a measure of electrical resistance after all. Whereas sensitivity is literally a measure of volume, but it's a much less scientific number. You'll see different numbers for a headphone's sensitivity depending on who measures them, and this is because it depends on measuring equipment, seal, acoustics and pink noise control etc. If you're really unsure whether you'll be able to drive a headphone, I recommend finding someone who has given a sensitivity score to the headphone you're after and a headphone you own. That way you can usually assume they'll have measured both with the same equipment and the relative difference will be trustworthy.
I have a set of the K240s, from the 70s. I love to listen to them purely for the toms and the snares, they make me feel warm and fuzzy. I highly recommend Alice in Chains Unplugged on vinyl for a listen through them.
what is your opinion on the Beyerdynamic DT 990 pros? i want to pick up a pair to game with and listen to music, but I don't have an amp or anything just the pack of mu motherboard any advice would be awesome
6:34 has to be my favorite explanation for electrostatic headphones ever lmao
HD600s are a lot easier to drive than I thought, because of the sensitivity. My Focusrite Scarlett Solo that plugs into a USB port, works just fine for them. Good thing too, my $100 amp becomes unbalanced and scratchy when you turn the knob, it's frustrating
Hearing the 600s vs the 600s reminded me that every time I listen to Walk Through The Park myself, I expect the audio to go horrible at that first break.
Really love you audiophile headphone videos
9:39
>RYDEEN
A MAN OF THE PUREST TASTES. HELL YEAH.
To be fair I do prefer the HD600's compared to the HD600's. Controversial I know but the difference is so clear to me.
I use some 1920s headphones to listen to my TH-cam videos. I need a specific amplifier for them because they are a full 2000 ohms!
Watching this.. on a shattered iPod touch.. with grados. Really feeling the full dankpods experience right now
I picked up a pair of AKG K240 sextettes at a yard sale for $3! I only knew about them because of this channel
I would really like to see more vídeos about IEMs. There is so much diversity in this market, also the prices até more affordable.
Can you review the Belkin Soundform Immerse Noise Canceling? They are 60 percent off at a store where I live?
I was waiting to get pranked by the skullcandy crushers when you compared the hd 600s to themselves :(
This brings up my preferences...I absolutely adore Audio Technica's ATH-M50X over-ear headphones...they can be driven by a phone or portable CD player fairly easily...but I own a Schiit Audio Asgard 2 headphone amp...class A power up to 1 watt!! The way the amp lights up the audio from the ATH-M50X's is INSANE! Quality power with headroom makes an incredibly nice change to the music. Sure I could drive damn near any pair of headphones with the Asgard 2...it really does have a noticable and healthy impact.
I have to run my senheiser momentum 3s on near max volume when plugged into the little headphone jack instead of using it Bluetooth, does that count?
Im using a pair of K240s to listen to this rn haha, got a brand new pair for like 50 dollars and they are amazing for the price
Watching that Frank bit at the end reminded me of my cats when I got them a new cat bed they preferred to lay in the box the bed came in. XD
Would love to hear your opinion on the Beyerdynamic DT990's (250ohm)
As a Brazilian jazz musician, I actually let out a little scream when I saw Marcos Valle and his awful album cover at 7:47
Honestly I like the HD600s over the HD600s, you could really smell the difference
HD600’s vs HD600’s is the equivalent to you vs the guy she told you not to worry about but they’re the same guy
My day is now much better, my 4.0 HP ryobi battery that was 180$ may or may not have died
I'll be honest, I'm confused on the scoring scale. Is the score the top volume before distortion happens or the lowest volume which is clearly audible on the ears? Was it the volume which matched the volume on the HurrDurrs or...
I mean, it was a good video I just really had no idea if anything was good or bad or... what. I mean, I guess none of them were bad but I really have no idea what I even just watched.
I liked the omnious Six Hungos slowly crawling out of my TV like the chick from the Ring though.
I think it was simply his subjective "this is comfortable listening volume". It confused me to
Probably just all the headphones getting matched to an original "comfortable listening" volume.