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oratory1990 t1_jacf1gd wrote

Reply to comment by 09212 in The Sennheiser veil is too real by rob417

The HD6XX is based on the HD650 the same way that the HD650 is based on itself - it is just a different packaging and cable. Exact same acoustics.

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09212 t1_jacgn50 wrote

yeah exactly. i was just pointing out that whichever way you put it, it’s not a 27 year old headphone

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oratory1990 t1_jackq2w wrote

It's origin is the HD580, which was released in 1993. That's 30 years ago.
The HD580 Jubilee (1995) and HD600 (1996) are small modifications of the HD580, and the HD650 (2003) has slightly less distortion.

It's old - ancient, if you were to apply the same metrics as for e.g. semiconductors.
But (passive) headphones are not semiconductors, and how good a headphone is generally doesn't correlate a lot with how old it is.

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