Finally, our products are characterised by durability, since many parts can be exchanged and replaced. Mind you, if you turn up the level too much, the warbling sound comes to haunt you but that is likely not your everyday level.

As I have found repeatedly, however wild the superlatives I encounter in the reviews the actual differences between the last and the latest model of a particular piece of hifi is more often than not a matter of nuance. The 880s are marginally more polished, but the difference (to my ears at least) is subtle rather than dramatic. Instead, the DT 990 Pro presents itself as a fairly reliable tool for evaluating and editing a piece of music. First of all, they are distinguished by the black design elements and secondly, the Black Edition model is equipped with a straight 3m cable and the standard version with a spiral cable.

While the 990's are really similar, they are tighter on the ears, and I don't like that at all, but they are still quite comfortable. For decades professional users all around the world have placed their trust in the beyerdynamic classic range: DT 770/880/990 PRO. If open and close back is not your concern, the most obvious difference to me in the sound is the spatial difference.

The user reports regarding the existence of the break-in phenomena can be explained as a psycho acoustic effect caused by the fact that human hearing is very good at adapting to new sounds. Besides cymbals like razors, high-frequency content didn't have good separation and it sounded like all cymbals are just one huge mess. The only accent of color is the name of the headphones (which I can do without but isn’t a deal breaker) and the gray memory foam ear pads which you can see from the outside of the open-back design.But if you want realistic uncoloured and natural sounding headphones then look at these further perhaps?