Tool is so good it's unfair

It's origin is the HD580, which was released in 1993. That's 30 years ago.
The HD580 Jubilee (1995) and HD600 (1996) are small modifications of the HD580, and the HD650 (2003) has slightly less distortion.

It's old - ancient, if you were to apply the same metrics as for e.g. semiconductors.
But (passive) headphones are not semiconductors, and how good a headphone is generally doesn't correlate a lot with how old it is.

I don't mind the weight at the moment, although they are far less comfortable compared to the sundaras when laying down, the clamping force just seems a bit much but that will probably reduce with use

Topping ex5 as dac & preamp and xduoo mt 604 w stock tubes. I put the volume on the 604 at max on both channels and then control the volume w the ex5.

I guess my use case is ridiculously niche. For most iems, the 5k would drive them perfectly.

It's on the list of presets in my previous comment, it's the one for the HD600 labelled "Optimum HiFi Curve". This is the direct link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygs3wfnj4ntgmhq/Sennheiser%20HD600%20%28Optimum%20HiFi%20Curve%29.pdf?dl=0

Or as Oratory replied to you, you can just leave the shelf off the Harman target.

Symphonium announced it through online word of mouth, and when 5 of the 7 colors were reserved end of last year, they started moving forward with the project in collaboration with Singaporean figurine artist Doku Paradise.

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Reminds me of the old idea of bigger, cheaper, faster and you can only pick two. Large battery, PEQ, high portability, pick two.

yeah exactly. i was just pointing out that whichever way you put it, it’s not a 27 year old headphone

I imagined an octopus playing it. Kind of the same thing.

Who else imagined Danny Carey playing this live?

I'd take the tuning filters out. Stuff in front of the drivers is rarely a good idea. EQ is a much better solution if you want to knock down the treble.

Its shortcomings have nothing to do with its age.

The HD6XX is based on the HD650 the same way that the HD650 is based on itself - it is just a different packaging and cable. Exact same acoustics.

I enjoy them for the spicy 90s cds. They really tame a harsh sounding track.

Same as for the Harman Over-Ear target, just with the gain of the 105 Hz low-shelf filter set to 0 dB.
Or better yet: set it to whatever sounds best to you, anywhere from 0 to 15 dB is fine.

It’s great, in my opinion, it runs the headphones pretty easily as I can comfortably listen to music at around 30 on the dap, listening on high gain and dual dac mode. I’m still somewhat new to daps but I think it’s a good start

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How’s the HD6xx - m3x pairing?

Oh dear. That sucks

I enjoy the dusk, it just has developed a very noticeable channel imbalance.

yeah im using poweramp peq. so i was already asking for where could i find the Usound eq values if possible?

Really?