You can use a non android dap with a high battery life.

Get a thin long piece of wood/metal, tape it parallel directly on top of the headband on both sides of the crack. That should add some structural integrity

Good advice. I have my eyes on a pair of Meze 109 Pros but not for a while yet.

Holy shit, you need a whole electric substation to power these or a small scale nuclear reactor!

Nice setup, hope you make another post when the tubes come in.

Sidegrading to the 6XX isn't worthwhile in my opinion, 580s are great as is so it'd be better just going for a straight upgrade or sticking with them.

one day ill find a pair of 580s, not the worst way to spend your isolation! try and make the most out of it and you'll be out in no time.

Hd600 is laid back sounding but people said hd650 is laid back sounding one ?? This hobby is very confusing.

Yes

squints that's.... not how it works....

Yup, and still good

Just to show how subjective this hobby is. For many people (me included) the HD600 is like hearing music enveloped in high quality velure and silk while viking ladies feed me grapes, while for some people is like Jack the hobo dressed in trash bags, in a Walmart cart, yelling for crack down the street.

Really a loaded question. I have both and I have to say I am not giving up either.

The HD600 is such a good headphone either on tubes or one of the many DACs/AMPs out there.

The 109 is easier to drive and has a fantastic soundstage. I find myself just listening to them like I'm not wearing headphones at all.

If I had to choose, I would take the 109 ONLY because it's easier to drive and I can use it across more devices.

One last thing, remember you are talking about a headphone that is two to about three times the price (depending on the deals). It's a great headphone but the 600s on a good tube amp is magic in my humble opinion.

I have a pair and when I want to have some fun times with it I just pump the bass a bit. Works wonders for me. (I'm not a basshead though)

Hotwire it right into the back of a serious speaker amp

Damn, it can really happen like that? I did swap my pads not too long ago and I think it started happening after the pad swap so maybe that's it.

try to take better care, use a headphone stand also. about all you can do

In my experience, it depends on tube. Some of them play perfect after 15-20 hours burn in but some tubes need much more. And during the listening session after they are burn in, I use to heat them for 15-20 minutes without signal and then another 10-15 minutes with signal and after this time they reach their best sound. I use Voskhod tubes - amazing sound sonically and really big sound stage.

Yeah over the years I've learned to take reviews with a grain of salt. The final verdict are my own ears on my own sources.

Illuminati

Most full size headphones at these prices don't really sound that good. If you were expecting anything close to truly crystal clear and distortion free sound, no full size headphone, besides maybe a couple of ultra-expensive top-tier models, achieves that goal. Most headphones genuinely sound like crap. The HD600 is one of the least offending affordably priced products, but it's still not gonna be a massive jump from an HD599. The difference in sound quality isn't THAT big.

You'll get far better sound quality with IEMs at those prices.

It tangles in ways I cannot fathom

Aukey

You've answered your own question.

USB-luetooth

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