beyerdynamic DT880 with HeadRoom Fat Pipe Upgrade

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 soundtrack detail recovery for truly immersive movie/DVD watching and will deliver a superb home theatre personal listening experience. They have also become a big fave amongst folks doing analytical pro audio work who demand accuracy, instrumental detail, and transparency above all else.

Cable Upgrades:

So how do we get them to sound even even better? Upgraded custom headphone cabling on your beyerdynamic headphones will offer a richer musical soundcape with improved tonal/timbral detail, wider dynamic range extension, and a more spacious overall soundstage image. So how do we do it? HeadRoom starts with a custom fabricated, high-tech Cardas Audio 10-foot cable, 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 audiophilic listening pleasure.

All HeadRoom cable-jobs are hand-terminated 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 cord 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, fully isolated from electrical noise, and completely resonance-free, producing a very quiet, musical and superbly accurate cable capable of beautiful sound reproduction.

*The additional costs shown below in the cord charges for this recabled beyerdynamic headphone are comprised of our in-house HeadRoom labor fees for disassembling the DT880 hard-wired headphones, replacing with the new Cardas Audio Fat-Pipe cord, (in the process removing some internal earcup wiring contact points), and restoring the headphones 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 to be recabled, please visit our Upgrading Existing Headphones page.