New Sennheiser HD 620S

[Makahl]

Distraction Off. Open sound on.

The new HD 620S breaks from the pack with contemporary tuning and soundstage that defy the closed headphone category.

newsroom.sennheiser.com

The HD 620S is currently available for pre-order, and begins shipping on June 6th 2024, and will be available from select retailers and at sennheiser-hearing.com with an RRP of £299.99 / €349.90.

 

[Dazerdoreal]

Oh wow, this looks neat.

But I think I already found the (little) catch. Considering the graph is probably smoothed out a lot, the lower mids might be uneven.

 

[markanini]

Seems worth paying attention to.

 

[_thelaughingman]

The question is how much distortion will it have? And that FR seems very uneven.

 

[esm]

The announcement appears to have disappeared; did someone get a little trigger-happy with the publish button?

 

[Somafunk]

Looks promising if it’s a genuine release with those measurements compared to the HD600 but I’d have to eq those mids down a fair bit

 

[Dunring]

Closed back with pleather/leather pads usually make the bass lose resolution or sound boomy. Not going to rush and pre-order this time, will wait for some hands on reviews. Just got the DT770 Pro X limited and it's pretty good, just not as good as I was expecting, the DT900 Pro X was really nice though, and the DT700 Pro x was too mellow. Any more closed back options are welcome though, hopefully the pads are a standard size.

 

[Somafunk]

Found them for sale here in the UK at Premium Sound for £299 and the HD 620s specifications here , I’ll phone them tomorrow to check on release date and may preorder them.

 

[ugur38]

Couple months ago they asked people would they buy a closed back headphone that's measures as community accepted target and priced about $300. Looks pretty good in my opinion. Here's how it compares against Harman target:

 

[MacClintock]

Closed back with pleather/leather pads usually make the bass lose resolution or sound boomy. Not going to rush and pre-order this time, will wait for some hands on reviews. Just got the DT770 Pro X limited and it's pretty good, just not as good as I was expecting, the DT900 Pro X was really nice though, and the DT700 Pro x was too mellow. Any more closed back options are welcome though, hopefully the pads are a standard size.

Unfortunately close back headphones all have intrinsic issues. But they much more easily get decent bass extension.

 

[Brian Hall]

Found them for sale here in the UK at Premium Sound for £299 and the HD 620s specifications here , I’ll phone them tomorrow to check on release date and may preorder them.

Please post their response here.

 

[Grobbelboy]

Couple months ago they asked people would they buy a closed back headphone that's measures as community accepted target and priced about $300. Looks pretty good in my opinion. Here's how it compares against Harman target:
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Lacking pretty severely in the upper regions though.

 

[Soulsound]

Despite the strange decision to opt for the 5 series chassis, i at least hope this low-end fr lives up to expectations.

 

[Mr Swing King]

Hmmm…by the looks of the tuning it looks like a 150 ohm HD569. Good boot of bass as well as a warm upper frequency response.
I am currently sending back a pair of K371, because the pads already are beginning to crack…and that is a headphone less than a month old. I’ve maybe used it for an hour. Love the sound though.
So naturally I’m looking for something closed with a tad better build and hopefully better pads.
I kinda frustrates me when companies announce something glorious…and then go back on their word. Hifiman did so with the HE-5XX (or the Dexx) where most of us were expecting a relaunch of the old HE-500 and wound up with a Deva in black.
When Sennheiser said they’re making a closedback HD600, I thought to myself ‘finally a proper headphone company decides to launch an old phoenix in a new closed design’.
Well colour me somewhat disappointed. Sure I am waiting for a proper frequency response in order to see what’s what as Sennie’s last frequency response of the HD660S2 didn’t exactly match up with what other rigs measured…but seeing a closedback HD560S/150 ohm HD569 was not exactly what I had my hopes up for.

 

[Human Bass]

Lacking pretty severely in the upper regions though.

Not really, thats the natural decay of a decent FR.

 

[Somafunk]

Please post their response here.

They said they’re expecting stock in 4-6 weeks so mid June

 

[Soria Moria]

This is what leaked a while ago:

 

[Ron Texas]

Unfortunately close back headphones all have intrinsic issues. But they much more easily get decent bass extension.

Closed back headphones are useful for listening in bed without annoying anyone else or for moderately noisy environments.

 

[heraldo_jones]

 

[Grobbelboy]

Not really, thats the natural decay of a decent FR.

I don’t really know what that means. Looks to me most of the >3KHz region needs a significant boost to comply with Harman. Most headphones that lack dB’s there sound a bit dull in my experience.