Sennheiser HD650 with Cardas Balanced Cable

The HD650

Sennheiser has thumbed its nose at the apparent industry demand to come out with brand-new products every single year. But with their most recent evolution, the venerable HD580/HD595/HD600 top-of-the-line product has gained a new flagship. We feel their patience and persistence developing headphones has paid off handsomely. With the HD650, the music is so smooth and relaxed when it’s supposed to be; so liquid-quick, so punchy on demand, so effortlessly competent you just fall worry-free into its lovely sonic embrace... Such a thing is the Sennheiser HD650. Its warm yet refined and impossibly seamless sound coupled with superb comfort has kept this can in the top echelon as one of the very best headphones available on the audiophile market.

Balanced Recabling

The Sennheiser HD650 is an excellent headphone capable of surprising soundstage image depth for headphones. We’ve found that re-cabling these cans provides significant improvement in their already spacious imaging ability, improves detail resolution & extension in the upper mids/highs, lends a tighter focus to the bottom-end while providing the listener with an audiophile listening experience on par with the very best that headphones can deliver. Another great advantage to Cardas Audio re-cabling your HD-650's is Sennheiser's 'quick-detach' cable design, making it a user-friendly breeze to quickly switch your headphone cord from balanced XLR to unbalanced 1/4" in seconds. Currently, the Sennheiser HD-650, HD-600, and older brother (now officially discontinued) HD-580 models are the only reference headphones available with detachable cables for effortless switching between balanced & unbalanced drive!

Of course... you'll need a balanced headphone amp and a balanced source. We currently offer our pioneering Desktop Balanced Amp, HeadRoom Home Balanced Amp and Max Balanced amp. Kill two birds with one stone and get your balanced source too, by purchasing the DAC option. Our HeadRoom DACs allow you to get a truly balanced signal out of any source that offers true digital audio signal output. This means that any player with optical, co-axial, or USB outputs [computers] will serve as an excellent source for balanced drive. That's right audiophiles, this means that your laptop computer can now transform into one of the best balanced audiophile audio sources around!