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 image, adds major detail resolution in the mids/highs, lends some added heft to the bottom-end and provides the listener with a listening experience on par with the very best that headphones can deliver. Another great advantage to recabling your 650's is Sennheiser's detachable cables, making it a snap to switch your cables from balanced to unbalanced in just a few seconds. Currently, the Sennheiser HD650, HD600 and older brother HD580 are the only headphones available with detachable cables for easy switching between balanced and unbalanced drive!

Of course... you'll need a balanced headphone amp and a balanced source. We currently offer the 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 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.