Thursday, December 28, 2017

Sennheiser HD 580 - Jubilee - Headphone Review

Sennheiser HD 580 Headphone
Sennheiser HD-580 Headphone ($349.00 USD)
Precision. This one is all-right. Better looking than the MassDrop HD 580, although that one is set in black.

At $450.00 USD in Jubilee version (1996) can one believe that something in audio's become actually better value ($150.00 USD, today).

This exemplifies this situation where Magico users (owners) were complaining that their feature-leading loudspeakers (eg. M5) were becoming obsolete (and thus not a better value...) because Magico were improving their loudspeaker situation (eg. Q5) only more frequently, leaving eddies in the market. (excuse Michael Savage comment.)

Including inflation, that $450.00 USD has become $709.

12Hz–38kHz ±3dB

If you want a frequency response like a Triton Reference ($8,498.00 USD) (extended high frequency response, and even way back then...) then this is the on-ear headphone for you. Even 3 kHz more in the upper-end, and this doesn't have a folded ribbon tweeter!

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THD: <0.1%

It's not good, but This is all-right.

JP 2017/12/28
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