I've read that sound leak/disturbing others can be an issue for open back but as long as it's not as loud as the onboard speakers I suppose it's fine? This allows for the optimal experience, blending comfort with high quality audio playback, for the best all-round home entertainment experience, the HD559 will allow you to unleash your home entertainment system's full potential. Compared to my Koss phones that have a very bright sound with particularly good reproduction of the high end registers (and give an outstanding bass sound too by their design), I initially found these bass heavy and very little of the treble registers, but wait! Powered by Sennheiser proprietary transducer technology and featuring the “Ergonomic Acoustic Refinement” (E.

Sennheiser engineered transducers use aluminum voice coils delivering high efficiency, excellent dynamics and extremely low distortion.Next day, after cleaning the headband and pads a bit, I decided to give it a listen on one of my cassette walkmans. I used to be active on these forums for years, and I thought I did a decent job of building a mostly endgame system for myself within my budget: Teac HA-501 amp, Schiit Gumby mulitbit, HD 600, HD 650, Shure 1540, DT990/600, and LCD-2F. Before I jump into my review, I feel it's important to give some context about myself that ultimately influenced my review. Below 40Hz and 440Hz square-waves and 100μs impulse response of the modified HD559, stimulus (and target) and measured response. Initially it seemed like it got better, but in practice I got used to the sound signature, tending to ignore its flaws.

With large, soft removable ear cushions and wide headband cushions , the HD 559 is as comfortable as it looks. Seal can be an issue with closed-back headphones but is usually less of a problem for open headphones. Alas, when doing this modification the coarse mids/treble is no longer masked and the dip around 1kHz that now came to be makes the mids/lower treble over accentuated and is a bit ‘nasty’ and ‘hard’ sounding. I have a gaming headset which I also use for work for it's clear mic but for my FP-10, it just sounds horrendous especially when I pedal.

At the same time, the more expensive model also covers the upper range better and literally opens up another level of airiness. New to the HD 500 series product line is the HD 559, a headphone for those seeking exceptional value. Surely, it excels when it comes to rock and hip hop, but may skimp on classical or some more intricate instrumental tracks.