On The Level: The Senneheiser HD650 and IE 300 Headphones.

Cursory Option: Sennheiser VS Johnny #Walk.

To us, Johnny denotes "Johnny on the Spot."

We place equal value to the Sennheiser HD650 and IE 300 headphones. About the level of a bottle of Johnny Walker "Blue Label" Whisky, in terms of taste response, $50 per lb.  We like all three, and would call this the "flash-point of economic response" for our taste to function.

In our estimation, based on the retail price in British Columbia for a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label, and our experience with said produce, we place a use-value of $300 on both the Sennheiser HD650 and IE 300 headphones in a desolate environment / environ.

According the Legend of 300, it took 300 able-bodied


"Blue Label"  for our con-science."Blue Point" of headphones, a bit like the Sumiko "Blue Label" cartridge.

The IE 300 was unalienable as it is made for walking.

 Both are fit for use items for audio locomotion.


Rating: 50/100
Value: 100/100

Quotes From Backbird review
Audiophile Voice Vol.10 issue 3
By George Graves

"The Blue Point Special has a thin wall aluminium tube cantilver and a fairly standard elliptical diamond stylus of 3.0 by 0.8m. The new Back Bird replaces that aluminium cantilever with one made from longrained boron, a material With an incredibly high stiffness-to-mass ratio. The blackbird's diamond is a much smaller; lower mass, proprietary profile elliptical shape."

"My overall impression of the Blackbird is one of supreme refinement. Like its siblings, The BPS, The Blackbird is a good tracker. If anything,it picks up even less surface noise than the BPS and, like the older design,simply sails through whatever obstacle course that one is likely to throw at it including the imfamous Shure test record. On the "Firebird" disc (Mercury SR90226, Stravinsky, London Symphony Orchestra, Anatal Dorati conducting. 108g, 45rpm cut), The Climactic and orgaistic "Infernal Dance of Kastchei and his court" the Black Bird Never misbehaved once. If it can trackthis 45-RPM cut, it can track anything."
"...The low volume passages eaily get lost in surface noise on most pressings of this performance, But the Blackbird reveals them in pristine silence. Where the BPS and Benz Glider exhibited some surface noise on this cut, the Blackbird revealed a velvety black background from whence the music just emerged. I attribute this mostly to the somewhat diffrent stylus shape used by Sumiko for this cartridge. Basicly its riding in a diffrent part of the groove than the BPS and the Glider, A part not worn by previous plays. Where the BPS is bright and clean the Blackbird is mearly clean. While this presentation might seem somewhat dull to those upgrading from a BPS, One will soon find that this is actually more realistc and much more musical."

Quotes From Backbird review