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Sennheiser HD560S Review (Headphone)
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Ordered one more time hd 560s to compare with 660s.
660s sound more full, except recessed treble. And gives more natural sound. But even after equalization it's timbre is mellow and soft. When listening to hard rock and dynamic heavy metal, I wish more readable sound, more sharpness. Even being equalized, 660s provides soft pleasant treble.
Contrary, hd 560s is giving sharp and readable sound with more deep bass and less mid bass. But when listening to jazz, acoustic pop, voices are sharper and thinner because of raised up-mid and low treble and (i guess) 3 blob effect... Even after equalization sound character doesn't change to mellow and soft.
So 660s is feeling more pleasant and consistent for ears anyway. A class up from 560s.
Searching through internet about good headphones for a digital piano, I've found many recommendations about 560s. And I agree that 560s are great for synths and piano even while having brighter then neutral sound signature. 660s are dark and natural sounding so timbres will be mellower/darker then they are in reality. For pianists it doesn't really matter.
660s sound more full, except recessed treble. And gives more natural sound. But even after equalization it's timbre is mellow and soft. When listening to hard rock and dynamic heavy metal, I wish more readable sound, more sharpness. Even being equalized, 660s provides soft pleasant treble.
Contrary, hd 560s is giving sharp and readable sound with more deep bass and less mid bass. But when listening to jazz, acoustic pop, voices are sharper and thinner because of raised up-mid and low treble and (i guess) 3 blob effect... Even after equalization sound character doesn't change to mellow and soft.
So 660s is feeling more pleasant and consistent for ears anyway. A class up from 560s.
Searching through internet about good headphones for a digital piano, I've found many recommendations about 560s. And I agree that 560s are great for synths and piano even while having brighter then neutral sound signature. 660s are dark and natural sounding so timbres will be mellower/darker then they are in reality. For pianists it doesn't really matter.
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I'm just gonna respond to one bit of your post, because I don't think it's worth addressing the other stuff. HD560s does not have the "3-blob" effect (a comment on the soundstange & imaging) that is quite often mentioned in relation to the HD6XX lineup (HD600/650/6XX/ (&660s too I think as also no angled drivers/pads)).
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for the price of 660s, you could've gotten the 560s & 6xx which does everything and more!
Good point, and in my experience you can narrow that down even further & just say HD560s with EQ. (I do own HD600 which is effectively HD6XX, at least in terms of overall potential albeit with slightly different frequency response, but we have EQ.).
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Admittedly I dont own these headphones, but both are considered fine and I am sure that it is possible to equalize the 560s in a way that its treble is soft, as well as you could equalize the 660s in a way that its treble is bright / harsh. To my knowledge there are no technical reasons why this should not be possible.
So, can you tell me what do you mean by "after being equalized"?
When did you reach the point at the 560s which made you think "I cannot improve the timbre of the 560s by equalizing, it is useless to try anymore"?
I ask that because it often appears to me that many people do not understand what equalizing is capable of.
HD 6xx is not being sold in Europe. No no option. At the moment in Poland I can order 660s for 340 USD, 600th for 320 USD and 650th for about 350USD )))
560s doesn't have tenderness and depth of 6** series. Especially at vocals perspective. 6** pads are deeper, treble is soft.
Hello, English is not my native language, and I can't figure out from this document how to set up the equalizer for my 560s headphones
. If you have the opportunity, please advise which equalizer to use and how to adjust its sliders, preferably with a photo. Thank you in advance, dear friends.I have Windows 10 x64
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There is already an active discussion about this in another topic (including the author of the website you are linking to).
Maybe we could continue to discuss the changes in there.
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Maybe we could continue to discuss the changes in there.
New version of Sennheiser HD 560S (!)
I should have said 'I perceived distortion', which could mean snything, or nothing. Thanks for taking measurements. Do you still have the "new version" HD560s? If you're a Harman fan you could reverse engineer the measured changes that solderdude has noted. In other words, you'd use an...
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These headphones are down to just £119 on Amazon in UK (Prime Day deal):
I know! I bought another one just a few days ago though (bad timing I suppose!)Another one to add to the collection?
Yes, so I bought the new version that has a shorter cable (they're all like that now), because I wanted to see if the reports of different measurements & sound were correct, and also because it would mean the new version should sound better without EQ than the old version, so would be useful to use for times when not using EQ. I have measured the new version a couple days ago, and it's very similar to what solderdude found when he measured the new version. I'll be posting up my results when I've got it all together and have some time. I'll also be posting up an EQ that will turn new version into old version so that it can be better combined with an Oratory EQ, as Oratory has measured mainly the old version of the HD560s.
Hi folks, I've posted up the results of my measurement of the new version vs old version at following thread where new version is being discussed:
www.audiosciencereview.com
New version of Sennheiser HD 560S (!)
I should have said 'I perceived distortion', which could mean snything, or nothing. Thanks for taking measurements. Do you still have the "new version" HD560s? If you're a Harman fan you could reverse engineer the measured changes that solderdude has noted. In other words, you'd use an...
www.audiosciencereview.com
HD560s down to £139 at Amazon UK, pretty much the lowest price it ever gets to, apart from a few momentary blips at lower prices:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HNFV61M?tag=camelweb-21&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_GB
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HNFV61M?tag=camelweb-21&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_GB
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You can use https://autoeq.app/ to calculate the ideal 4-band PEQ filter.
Just select the HD560S as headphone and Harman Over Ear 2018 as target, then choose Custom Parametric Eq for the Equalizer and enter the minimum and maximum frequency, gain, and Q values that you can select in the WiiM App into each filter band:
You can experiment with leaving the first and last band as shelf filters or making them Peak filters as well. Whatever gives you the best result.
Thank you. I noticed the adjustable "bass boost" is pre-configured @ +6 - is this the Harman standard?
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