It had been simmering for a while. Since I got the Argon HA-1 headphone amplifier - or soon after. Maybe the old Sennheiser HD-570's was growing to old? They had a lot of loose - boomy? - bass and missed something in the high end. That inspired a lot of searching and reading on the net.
I quite soon found two decent candidates for a major improvement. One is a true classic – Sennheiser HD-650. They get rave reviews everywhere. But several mention that they first really sing with a good tube amplifier. For example the Little Dot MK III or IV. Well, I have just bought an amplifier? The other candidate that came more and more into focus was the Denon AH-D2000 (the greater siblings are also very tempting but with prices 2 and 3 times higher they are way out of reach).
The Sennheiser can be found at reasonable prices around the net, although is not that easy to get to listen to in this corner of the world. But they have got the Denon at the HiFi-Klubben stores – also in Holbæk, so I dropped in to listen today.
The sound is terrific – and as you can se in the picture they had to come home with me. They didn't have a boxed sample in Holbæk and the demo kit had a scratch, so I had to go to Roskilde to fetch it. It was definitely worth the ride. The good people told me to let them play for a couple of hours before I even listened to them. I could not wait! Right from the beginning they sound really good. If they will get much better in a few hours and perfect after 100 or more then great things are coming.
Even now the bass is more tight and the mids and treble are silky and precise at the same time. As the Denon's are closed they also isolate much better for the sound – both inward and outward – than the totally open Sennheisers. At the same time they are perfectly comfortable to wear. The thick cable is very convincing. It's also nice that it won't tangle and twist every time you get them on or off.
But I am still waiting (not at all patiently) for my DacMagic...
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