I use Equalizer APO. I'm used to the default interface so I never really tried Peace honestly. I listened to some stuff with your EQ profile and I measured it. It's certainly much better than default tuning. The harshness in 5-6kHz is gone, it even sounds a bit too recessed in that area for me but since you're sensitive to that I guess it's fine. I think the upper-mids are too recessed so I would recommend adding a 3000 Hz, 4 dB, 1.5 Q filter. If you don't like that you could try 2-3dBs instead for your preference.

god damn, even a year ago they still had one. Although to be honest it's kind of wasteful.

I think this is good news; the old packaging was wasteful. Most people are either going to throw out the box or just store it to gather dust. Anyone that actually needs a hard case for transporting these headphones frequently (???) can buy one separately. It's kind of ridiculous for $200 plastic headphones to come in such an elaborate case that weighs significantly more than the headphones themselves, think of all the extra weight and cost and environmental impact moving all that around the world for what is essentially a marketing gimmick ("the unboxing experience") that most people don't care about. Fine, if you want to spend $2000 on a headphone, maybe you are entitled to such a gimmick but for these, better to modernize it and keep the price low.

By any chance, can you confirm that yours were made in Ireland?

Greed

They already raised the price, why cut costs?

Gritty treble and upper mids, also high thd

Also got my 660S about that long ago, it came with the nice box.

You're good offspring to do this for your dad. I'd do the same for mine in a heartbeat if he didnt go and get himself some sennheisers upon asking me about headphones for big ears

That's the biggest question I have about the Bathys. I'm not interested in any noise-cancelling headphones that have any more hiss than my AirPod Pros.

The 660s still come with nice boxes, at least as of ~5 months ago when I bought mine.

660s2 reportedly does not.

I guess so. The 600, 650, and 660s haven't come with the hard box for a few years now

Mine are scheduled to be delivered later today, so I couldn't tell you from personal experience yet, but from the latest pictures that people have been posting on Drop, they unfortunately don't. :( It looks like quite a recent change too. I'm a bummer. I really wanted the fancy box with hinges and the foam inserts.

Owned by German company, made in Ireland, sold in USA.. wut?

Well I never claimed to have good hearing. I just said they sound almost identical to me. Can you explain what exactly you mean by "grain"? Maybe the slight difference in separation I hear is what "grain" is.

A lot of the manufacturers are cutting costs on the boxes. I don't put them out for show anyway so I'm all for it if they can keep prices lower. (Yeah I know the 6XX has gone up in price but it's still $200 every few months which I think continues to be a good value.)

Gotta cut costs somewhere I suppose.

nope. Mostly either while sitting on the couch/porch or when traveling with their RV, same situation.

I assume he won't be listening on the road?

This is what happens when quality is getting cut and you give your soul to the chinese.

If you can't hear grain on the Phillips you need to work on ur hearing

No you didn't

Not bad if he's quite old

Hell, the much more expensive S2's don't come in the nice box anymore.

That is a really useful review, thank you!

I'm glad I bought mine years ago. That sucks. The case is great for long term storage. They're still a heck of a deal though.