beyerdynamic DT880 & HeadRoom Balanced Fat Pipe

The DT880

beyerdynamic has offered up a real challenge for world's best dynamic headphone with the DT880. Although these cans are ever-so-slightly brighter than what we can call "neutral", they serve up a wonderfully involving listening experience -- absolutely TONS of clarity, crisp detail resolution and a very precise, deep soundstage image... Boy, not a harsh note to be found here! The DT880’s mids and bass really hold together very well, so overall a totally seamless & smooth-sounding musical presentation. Amazingly expressive dynamics, superbly controlled highs and a sweet mid-range snap make the DT880 a nicely well-balanced headphone, but probably not the strongest headphone choice for the bass-loving rock/rap/funk/trance crowd since the DT880 lacks the truly authoritative, hefty bottom-end response required for anchoring modern electronic music. We think you will love these headphones if you like clear, clean sonics with plenty of airy detail, excellent treble extension and a lively, ultra-open soundstage presentation. They are especially strong performers for classical, symphonic, chorale, chamber and acoustic/folk music. The DT880 also seem particularly good at speech intelligibility and detail recovery for truly immersive movie/DVD watching.

Balanced Recabling

Unbelievably, there is still a lot of room for improvement by custom cabling your beyerdynamic DT880. Custom cabling will not only allow your beyers to accept a balanced signal, but upgraded cables also offers even richer detail and a more spacious sound. We start with a custom fabricated, highly upgraded cable at your specified length, specifically designed, trimmed, tinned, and finished for beyerdynamic DT880 headphones. Then we carefully disassemble your 880's and remove the stock cable; get rid of a couple of extra connections and solder joints; thread the longer right channel cable through the headband; and join the new cable to the driver terminal blocks. The result is a completely professional and fully warranteed upgrade that will long serve your listening pleasure.

Of course... you'll need a balanced headphone amp and a balanced source. We currently offer the Desktop Balanced Amp, HeadRoom Balanced Home Amp and Balanced Max amp. Kill two birds with one stone and get your balanced source too, by purchasing the DAC option. Our DACs allow you to get a truly balanced signal out of any source that offers a digital output. This means that anything offering optical, coax, or USB outputs will serve as an excellent source for balanced drive. That's right folks, this means that your computer can become one of the best balanced sources around.

More About HeadRoom Cables

Our newly-available HeadRoom connector cables are hand-crafted in our Bozeman Montana plant by highly skilled technicians using only the very best materials available. No cheapo, noisy wiring here, babe! The Fat Pipe geometry is a four-conductor with braided shield cable featuring Golden Ratio, oxygen-free, pure copper Litz wire with pure teflon dialectrics just like the big boys. The connectors are terminated by hand using Cardas Ultra Pure Quadeutectic solder. The connectors are mechanically inert, isolated from electrical noise and completely resonance-free, producing a very quiet, musical and superbly accurate cable capable of beautiful sound reproduction.

Dont forget about our own HeadRoom-designed & engineered XLR-to-1/4" Dongle Adapter suitable for using your killer XLR-terminated balanced headphones with any standard single-ended 1/4" headphone amp/source connection.

*The additional costs seen below in the Cardas cable charges for this headphone are comprised of our in-house HeadRoom labor fees for disassembling the DT880 hard-wired headphones, replacing with the new Cardas Audio Balanced Fat-Pipe cord with stereo L/R XLR terminations, (in the process removing some internal earcup wiring contact points), and restoring the 'phones to brand-new condition; it's a professionally finished & fully warranteed cable upgrade done by our best HR techs!

Already Got Headphones? If you already own a pair of beyer's and you're interested in sending them in to be recabled for balanced drive, please visit our Upgrading Existing Headphones page.