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Sennheiser HD 800 Balanced
MSRP $1,949.95
Stock Status: 1 to 2 Weeks.
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Now comes the "World's Best Headphones" made even better -- Sennheiser HD800 featuring balanced XLR cord modifications from yours truly, HeadRoom Electronics. Even headphones this acoustically perfect audibly improve under balanced-drive control, so partner with our HeadRoom BUDA balanced headphone amp for a listening experience guaranteed to astound and amaze your discerning audiophile head -- or 100% your money back!
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Product Features:
- The 'Gold Standard' of technical excellence in the headphone listening experience
- Toroidal 55mm angled driver for distortion-free performance and natural imaging
- High-quality stock cable modified for balanced XLR amp operation here at HeadRoom
- Outstanding comfort and widely adjustable, highly ergonomic fit
- Stunning German headphone designed with contemporary styling and cuttting-edge materials
Applications:
The Sennheiser HD800 may well be the world's best headphone (see our HeadRoom Sennheiser HD800 product page for basic information), but it can sound even better when driven by dedicated balanced headphone amplifiers. Audio improvements are rendered across the board in instrumental articulation, musical clarity, punchy impact, and liquid ease of response. At our frequent HeadRoom headphone audio events, listeners of the HD800 in both configurations will typically report the standard 'unbalanced' version sounds less vivacious and lush in blind comparisons with improved PRAT in the Balanced edition. It's clear to say that balanced drive delivers an audible and significant musical performance improvement with twice the amplifier slew rate, twice the voltage swing capacity and lower THD distortion specs for serious reference music lovers using Sennheiser HD800 headphones.
Most "stock" headphone cables simply aren't worth modifying for reference balanced operation. Fortunately, Sennheiser has provided a very worthy factory cable with the HD800 so simply re-terminating their stock cord for balanced use is an excellently affordable way to make these cans compatible with balanced headphone amps. At HeadRoom, the HD800 cable is modified with the addition of two stereo (left/right) Neutrik male 3-pin XLR connections perfect for the HeadRoom Balanced Ultra Desktop Amp.
The Sennheiser HD800 headphone cord is a specially tuned, symmetrical, impedance-matching cable with extremely low measured capacitance. Braid design is a Sennheiser-proprietary shielded four-conductor within two shielded twisted pairs housed in a unique dialectric insulation featuring thick Teflon-coated, silver plated, oxygen-free pure copper conductors. With our painstakingly precise HeadRoom XLR balanced cord plug modification, your beloved HD800s will be ready to seriously rock your headphone world in a wonderfully balanced way -- so prepare to hold on to your music-loving audiophile head!
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Specifications:
- Warranty: 2 Years
- Detachable Cable: Yes
- Cord Length: 10 ft. (3 m)
- Connector Type: Balanced XLR
- Ear Coupler Type: Full-Size
- Impedance @ 1kHz: 300
- Coupler Size: Large
- Cord Type: Straight Y
- Manufacturer Warranty: 2 years
- Headphone Type: Full Size
- Wireless: No
- Noise Cancelling: No
- Isolation: 0
- Balanced: Yes
- Acoustic Seal: Open
- Microphone: No
- Driver Type: Dynamic
Additional Resources:
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- Right Between Your Ears Review
Average Rating
Posted by Christoph from Berkeley, CA on 2012-10-24
Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: electrostatic sound with dynamic range
Cons: price
5 out of 6 people found this review helpful. Did you?
Posted by Christoph from Berkeley, CA on 2012-10-24
Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: electrostatic sound with dynamic range
Cons: price
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you?
Posted by Jack's naim from Canada on 2011-05-24
Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: SUPER COMFY and THE SOUND is to DIE FOR
Cons: You need to spend money before nirvana can be had.
16 out of 29 people found this review helpful. Did you?
