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.
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
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...
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
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.
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
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.
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'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 RUclipsrs I could have ever found.
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.
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
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)
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.
Ohms is the resistance to power going through the headphones. Sensitivity is the rating of volume, for a standard signal. You want a higher sensitivity, this is sometimes sacrificed for balancing the frequency spectrum balance. For anyone curious.
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.
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
These video's really made me get into the hobby. I started out with some good in ears, and nog I have a AKG K712 Pro, Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 80 Ohm and find myself looking into buying even more
I have a few pairs of audezes and a pair of hd600s and some grados, but the k712 pros are still my daily headphones. There are headphones I prefer for music, or gaming, or content consumption, but nothing gets quite as close to perfect in all 3 as the k712s to me
Judging from what you already have... K712 Pro [Warm Neutral Leaning; with good soundstage; Open Back] DT 770 Pro [Treble/High Focused; Closed Back] You could accentuate the mix up with something like : Meze 99 Classics [Dark/Bass V shaped; Close Back] Hifiman Sundara [Planar, Mid-Bright Leaning; Open Back] To not sidegrade into a sound you already have, or : Focal Clear MG if you want to have a nice all rounder that's warmer than the K712 while being a little more 'fun' and not being as bright at the DT770, just a sort of 'right' in the middle sound. The K712 Pro is nearly identical in audio presentation to the HD600 with a few particularities so! I can't advise combing around more neutral 'reference headphone' sounds. You'll fall into the trap a new people get into which is, buying many headphones that sound very similar when they could get a range of sounds OR EQ instead!
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.
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
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.
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.
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'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!
Best way to think of how ohms and sensitivity works electrically is this: ohms is driven by voltage, sensitivity is driven by current. A headphone doesn't just need the raw numbers in terms of power, how that power is applied (whether through higher voltage or higher current) also matters.
I think it's interesting how RUclips 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.)
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
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.)
Fun fact about the Easy-To-Run Headphones: They can sound rather noisy on certain devices, such as laptops, since the minimum power that can be output is rather high, resulting in it having limited dynamic range (and hence, noise). I was able to reduce the noise and improve the sound quality by putting a variable resistor in series, which also functioned as an old-fashioned volume knob.
They sell 80 ohm barrels you can plug at the end of the jack that accomplishes this, raising the noise floor so the electrical noise isn't so prevalent while still allowing the sensitive headphone to run off a dongle / laptop. Amazon has them under "Impedance Adapter" for around $8USD
@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
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 got my self an akg k340 since they`ve been mentioned before. now it was quite a weird feeling to listen to the sample through the actual headphone:) i really love the 340`s - they put a smile on my face everyday!
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 very rare pair of planar magnetic headphones that are hand built by some electrical engineer man. They're 11 ohms only... but they need a proper high power desktop amplifier that can push out anywhere from 3-7 volts to drive properly. The headphones are called the Nectar Bee They also have the thickest planar driver ever made since they're custom and it's attached quite loosely specifically to move large amounts of air for bass. They stay completely flat with the bass until about 16-17 Hz. They go down all the way to 5Hz with a roll off. It's crazy, even when you take the headphones off your head, you can still audibly hear the bass these things can produce.
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.
You inspired me about a year ago to pick up a pair of HD600s and a simple amp/dac setup and I use them every day and they are my favorite pair of headphones
The craziest thing I've already taken away from this video is that the Audeze LCD 2's came out in 2009. I always thought they were some weirdo late 70's thing.
I have to admit, you and this channel are the reason why I got my own Fiio mini amp for my desktop and got brand new Senny 58X headphones. Turning me into a proper audiophile!
After watching this channel for a long time, I just took delivery of my first real set of headphones, and it's the HD 600. I am enjoying it a lot. Thanks for indirectly influencing my decision by always using the HD 600 as the referee headphones. :)
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 got a pair of old headphones somewhere I'll have to dig out, they have potentiometers on the side because there's multiple drivers per ear cup. I remembered they exist because I spotted them in the recent season of Stranger Things (there was some worker in the background wearing them)
drum museum could bring about Dank's ascension from portable to proper audio room with dedicated AMP used for nothing but glorious analogue, maybe even wood or at least faux wood pannels. good stuff ahead i recon.
I have the k240 studio, the new-ish ones, and I might not have a lot of experience but they're pretty good for the price ! But stinky bass are FORBIDEN
Thanks for showing of the K340s. Gonna buy a pair and play around with them. For 100-150€ they seem like a good deal for people that already spent way to much on audio equipment for no reason.
IDK man, coming outta my bargain bin Dell speakers that came with my big box computer in 2006, they all sound the same. Love your shit, keep being amazing!
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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 RUclips'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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 RUclips'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
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
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?
The camera punching in on the HD600 at the right timing is brilliant 😂
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 :)
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
This channel has showed me just how nice music can sound without having to hear it live. Thanks Mr.Pods
Mr pods 😂😂
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)
Always a pleasure to see a new Dankpods video
"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.
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!
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 RUclipsrs I could have ever found.
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.
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
Therapist: zoomed HD 600s don't exist, they can't hurt you
Zoomed in HD 600's:
that part made me lose it
You can replace the headband foam on your HD 600! The part is only like $30, and it makes world of difference.
With Yellow Magic Orchestra at the top, I know that's going to be a superb playlist
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)
That Marcos Valle appearance caught me off guard. Such a great album.
r/suddenlycaralho
i once blew up an amplifier with bass i love you
the subwoofers would move with no signal from anything which was very healthy
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!
Ohms is the resistance to power going through the headphones. Sensitivity is the rating of volume, for a standard signal. You want a higher sensitivity, this is sometimes sacrificed for balancing the frequency spectrum balance. For anyone curious.
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.
Aw man, you have no idea how much excitement I get when I see a new vid of yours in my feed. 😆
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
These video's really made me get into the hobby. I started out with some good in ears, and nog I have a AKG K712 Pro, Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 80 Ohm and find myself looking into buying even more
I have a few pairs of audezes and a pair of hd600s and some grados, but the k712 pros are still my daily headphones. There are headphones I prefer for music, or gaming, or content consumption, but nothing gets quite as close to perfect in all 3 as the k712s to me
Judging from what you already have...
K712 Pro [Warm Neutral Leaning; with good soundstage; Open Back]
DT 770 Pro [Treble/High Focused; Closed Back]
You could accentuate the mix up with something like :
Meze 99 Classics [Dark/Bass V shaped; Close Back]
Hifiman Sundara [Planar, Mid-Bright Leaning; Open Back]
To not sidegrade into a sound you already have, or :
Focal Clear MG if you want to have a nice all rounder that's warmer than the K712 while being a little more 'fun' and not being as bright at the DT770, just a sort of 'right' in the middle sound.
The K712 Pro is nearly identical in audio presentation to the HD600 with a few particularities so! I can't advise combing around more neutral 'reference headphone' sounds.
You'll fall into the trap a new people get into which is, buying many headphones that sound very similar when they could get a range of sounds OR EQ instead!
Embiggening HD600 aren't real, it can't get you.
3:43.
the fact that we kept hearing the song through the hurdur six hungeo's gave me some whiplash because i've never heard those parts "normally"
The full hd600 sample was weird to hear, lmao. Great video, Dank! Thanks for consistently uploading, and maintaining the quality of your content!
I picked up a pair of AKG K240 sextettes at a yard sale for $3! I only knew about them because of this channel
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.
Dude this is so much more of an in-depth dive into how these actually sound and stuff, thank you, didnt know i needed that
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I picked up a pair of vintage K240DF's recently and love them! The length of the cable is real!
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!
Best way to think of how ohms and sensitivity works electrically is this:
ohms is driven by voltage, sensitivity is driven by current.
A headphone doesn't just need the raw numbers in terms of power, how that power is applied (whether through higher voltage or higher current) also matters.
I think it's interesting how RUclips 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.)
Me listening to the freakish ears on my phone speakers be like: “Hm yes, the sound sounds like sound.”
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
Really love you audiophile headphone videos
4:02.. the second pair sounded the best
Hearing the whole clip with just the Hurr Durr Six Hunge-os was actually pretty nice. They really are a solid benchmark pair of cans.
this is a legendary moment in Dankpods history 3:38
I almost choked on my udon when the camera kept zooming in on the Sennheisers. Brilliant.
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 loved listening to all of these through my Sony Linkbuds
ah yes, we all need a headphone stink-a-thon in life!
Fun fact about the Easy-To-Run Headphones: They can sound rather noisy on certain devices, such as laptops, since the minimum power that can be output is rather high, resulting in it having limited dynamic range (and hence, noise).
I was able to reduce the noise and improve the sound quality by putting a variable resistor in series, which also functioned as an old-fashioned volume knob.
They sell 80 ohm barrels you can plug at the end of the jack that accomplishes this, raising the noise floor so the electrical noise isn't so prevalent while still allowing the sensitive headphone to run off a dongle / laptop.
Amazon has them under "Impedance Adapter" for around $8USD
Thinking back, In theory you can daisy chain an infinite number of these for infinite stink, any headphone becomes the slinkiest
@@oXPsYXo Ooh, I didn't know they existed! Thanks for bringing it up.
@@oXPsYXo Yup, and that's called the stink line
@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
3:57 Rare HurrDurr 600 Jumpscare
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)
ah yes, a dankpods video. the best form of serotonin
"Should I buy the HD600S or the HD600S?"
Wade: "I got u mate"
Let's be real, Wade makes us all laugh and helps us with depression
i got my self an akg k340 since they`ve been mentioned before. now it was quite a weird feeling to listen to the sample through the actual headphone:) i really love the 340`s - they put a smile on my face everyday!
7:45 BRAZIL MENTIONED!!!!!!!
1970s headphones were great you could wire it up and listen to music as you walked to the bakery
He’s back! The headphone killer is back!
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.
6:34 has to be my favorite explanation for electrostatic headphones ever lmao
I have a very rare pair of planar magnetic headphones that are hand built by some electrical engineer man. They're 11 ohms only... but they need a proper high power desktop amplifier that can push out anywhere from 3-7 volts to drive properly. The headphones are called the Nectar Bee
They also have the thickest planar driver ever made since they're custom and it's attached quite loosely specifically to move large amounts of air for bass. They stay completely flat with the bass until about 16-17 Hz. They go down all the way to 5Hz with a roll off.
It's crazy, even when you take the headphones off your head, you can still audibly hear the bass these things can produce.
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.
You inspired me about a year ago to pick up a pair of HD600s and a simple amp/dac setup and I use them every day and they are my favorite pair of headphones
The craziest thing I've already taken away from this video is that the Audeze LCD 2's came out in 2009. I always thought they were some weirdo late 70's thing.
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 have to admit, you and this channel are the reason why I got my own Fiio mini amp for my desktop and got brand new Senny 58X headphones. Turning me into a proper audiophile!
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
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
After watching this channel for a long time, I just took delivery of my first real set of headphones, and it's the HD 600. I am enjoying it a lot. Thanks for indirectly influencing my decision by always using the HD 600 as the referee headphones. :)
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 got a pair of old headphones somewhere I'll have to dig out, they have potentiometers on the side because there's multiple drivers per ear cup. I remembered they exist because I spotted them in the recent season of Stranger Things (there was some worker in the background wearing them)
Found them, Pioneer SE-505. They are murder to wear in summer
I was waiting to get pranked by the skullcandy crushers when you compared the hd 600s to themselves :(
I watched so many dank pods vids, I think this music is forever engraved in my brain.
All the music legend making an appearance , the huh duh, tge freakish ear on a stand, i absolutely love this
drum museum could bring about Dank's ascension from portable to proper audio room with dedicated AMP used for nothing but glorious analogue, maybe even wood or at least faux wood pannels.
good stuff ahead i recon.
I actually watched this video on the old akg k240 I LOVE them they sound so nice
I have the k240 studio, the new-ish ones, and I might not have a lot of experience but they're pretty good for the price ! But stinky bass are FORBIDEN
also I'm not a car'eful person, but at least I was able to repair them multiple times, which i could not with the Kwhatever my gf used to have
Thanks for showing of the K340s. Gonna buy a pair and play around with them. For 100-150€ they seem like a good deal for people that already spent way to much on audio equipment for no reason.
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
IDK man, coming outta my bargain bin Dell speakers that came with my big box computer in 2006, they all sound the same.
Love your shit, keep being amazing!
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
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
i listened to this on my 99 classics thanks to your rec. Keep em coming brother!