Headphones
Sennheiser HD 650
Once considered (at least by us!) "The "World's Best", the Sennheiser HD650 remains one of the absolute favorite headphones. This full-size open-back reference headphone delivers silky smooth, accurate sound with a laid-back, mellow tonal delivery. The HD650 is a truly gorgeous can for acoustic music of all kinds and for listeners seeking warm, richly rendered musical detail. Detachable headphone cord makes for easy upgrades to Cardas or CablePro standard and/or balanced XLR cables.
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Product Features:
- Best in class performance from these cans. A classic!
- Connectors on each earpiece make cable upgrades a snap.
- Extremely comfortable with replaceable velour ear pads.
- Lightweight aluminum voice coils ensure excellent transient response.
- 2 Year Warranty
What's In The Box:
- 1/4" to 1/8" adaptor cable
- Storage Box
Applications:
Sennheiser Electronics in Germany has always taken its time developing its audiophile reference headphone line. In fact, they're well-known for blissfully ignoring the apparent audio industry demand to come out with "brand-new" products every single season. We think their patience and persistence researching and developing headphones has paid off very handsomely over the years. 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 great thing is the Sennheiser HD650. The warm yet refined and impossibly seamless sound coupled with great comfort has kept this can in the top echelon for years as one of the best headphones available on the audiophile market.
Liveried in a slick deep grey and gloss black look, these cans are largely the same headphones as the discontinued HD600 model but with a few quite noteworthy improvements. First and foremost, Sennheiser engineers improved the baffling damper for tighter acoustic control, and boy did that work! The audio measurements of these headphones are phenomenally even and jagged-free, and the tonality is probably as close to 'down-the-middle smooth' as is available at this price. The renowned classic Sennheiser sonic 'warmth' has been coupled to a clarity of acoustic detail in the HD650 that is hard to beat by most other audiophile master-level headphones. Design-wise, the earcup grilles on the outside of the earpieces have been made sturdier; those who suffered a dented housing on their old HD600's will likely be appreciative. A new velour headband pad design improves on the already good comfort of the HD600 headphones, and a slightly tighter tension on the earcup adjusters makes for a more secure fit. The HD650 cord has also been much-improved with a thicker OFC cable design terminated to a full-sized 1/4" stereo plug. A short cable-style adapter to a 1/8" (3.5mm) mini-plug jack is handily included in the HD650 package. Although it's a decent mini-adapter, we still highly recommend getting the superb Cardas Audio 1/4" to 1/8" adapter if plugging the HD650 into a source with small sensitive 3.5mm (1/8" inch) outputs. Overall, HeadRoom definitely more than recommends these fabulous Sennheiser HD650 headphones. Our HeadRoom motto: we say shell out big and cry once, but forever have world-class, blissful audio at your ears!
NOTE: Though the Sennheiser HD650 improved cord is certainly better than the original HD600 stock cable, we continue to suggest the Cardas Audio upgrade cable for ultimate detail resolution, musical texture, instrumental separation and soundstage depth. The significant audio benefits of the Cardas Audio cable upgrade will be especially evident with reference high-end audio sources. Please feel free to buy a Cardas Audio cord and compare versus the Sennheiser cord to determine for yourself the advantages. As always, our standard HeadRoom 30-day return/refund policy with zero 're-stocking' fees guarantees you'll love what you hear!
Winner of the 2004 Brutus Award!
2004 Brutus Awards: HeadRoom BlockHead Amp & Sennheiser HD650's
Specifications:
- Sensitivity: 102 dB/V
- Warranty: 2 Years
- Cord Type: Straight Y
- Coupler Size: Large
- Detachable Cable: Yes
- Cord Length: 10 ft. (3 m)
- Weight: 9.2
- Connector Type: 1/4" with 1/8" adaptor
- Ear Coupler Type: Full-Size
- Impedance @ 1kHz: 300
- Manufacturer Warranty: 2 Years
- Headphone Type: Full Size
- Wireless: No
- Noise Cancelling: No
- Isolation: 0
- Acoustic Seal: Open
- Microphone: No
- Driver Type: Dynamic
Additional Resources:
- Manufacturer's Website
- http://www.sennheiserusa.com/
- Product Manuals
- HD 650 Manual
- Product Reviews
- On Hifi Wes Phillips April 2004
- SoundStage! Doug Paratore July 05
- Personal Media Review David MacNeill Dec 07
- Techradar.com, Richard Black
- Ecoustics, Mark Brezinski
Average Rating
Posted by KK from Holland,Oh on 2011-08-19
Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: Comfortable, Sound quality scales well, lightweight
Cons: Slightly dark sounding, ear cups could swivel a tad more
-The headband started cracking after a year. Sennheiser is replacing the headband and more free of charge. They said the issue has now been corrected. Sennheiser is very easy to deal with, so far A++ support.
Don't hesitate to buy this!
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Posted by Goomphy from Michigan on 2011-07-28
Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: Clean, distinguished, beautiful sounding
Cons: None
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Posted by JR from Corona, CA on 2011-06-14
Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: Comfortable earpads, open-back for lengthy listening
Cons: High impedance, cord is a bit long
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