John Willett

Crafted for Perfection Posted by John Willett

05 March 2009

We had the first British showing of the new HD 800 headphones at the Bristol Sound & Vision show in February.
 
The headphones were connected to a Grace M902B headphone amplifier which was fed from a Nagra CD player, one of the best setups on the market.
 

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John Willett

Audio Connoisseur Posted by John Willett

12 January 2009

There are a couple of questions that crop up regularly when it comes to the top end headphones.

 

These are: “Do they need running in?” and “Do I need a dedicated headphone amplifier?”.

 

Any Sennheiser headphones will sound good out of the box. However, like all headphones, they improve as they are “run in” and get used. Some users like to do this straight away and leave the headphones running continually at a lowish volume level for a couple of days or so and it is fine to do this.

 

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