What's Going On Up There- The Headphone Thread

The 6XX are awesome. It’s a dumb cliche, but listening to Tommy is like a whole new thing. Love them. Will be happy for a while with these, I think.

@Mather the fucking campfires may be going back. They are finicky to get connected to Bluetooth, the app doesn’t appear to do anything except not be able to find them, and when I do get them running - only the right one works.

I’m gonna reach out to their technical support but so far ☹️
 
Nee Lewman said:
The 6XX are awesome. It’s a dumb cliche, but listening to Tommy is like a whole new thing. Love them. Will be happy for a while with these, I think.

@Mather the fucking campfires may be going back. They are finicky to get connected to Bluetooth, the app doesn’t appear to do anything except not be able to find them, and when I do get them running - only the right one works.

I’m gonna reach out to their technical support but so far ☹️
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That's too bad, like I said I've only had experience with the wired ones and they've been universally great.
 
Okay. These Orbit things sound pretty good. They’ve got a nice soundstage, especially for a earbud and they are natural/nuetral. All the reviews talk about the bass which is funny because the echos were bass boost central and the B&Ws are often called bass lean and they still crush these things out of the box in bass response.

The ikea directions don’t help in set up. After much trial and error, I basically had to get them fully charged and pair them through the app to get everything to function. They worked like a dream since I did that and the firmware upgrade. Can’t talk about battery life yet.

The stock ear pads suck. The large one does fine in my right ear but it’s a very fragile seal on the left. This is with both the silicone and weird foam things they sent. That’s an easy fix though and I will order some better ear pads.

These will be fine for a while, I don’t think they are something I’ll replace in kind when it comes time but they are pretty fine sounding earbuds. Not sure they are worth the effort.

Also, the stock sound was a little weak but they have a pretty robust 8 band eq and several preset configurations for me to play with. I’ve found the “folk” setting seems like a sweet spot for most of my listening so far. In fact, I was playing a headphone playlist on Qobuz and I was pretty floored by how good Alison Krauss and Union Station’s New Favorite sounded.
 
Nee Lewman said:
Also, I REALLY dig these HD6XX. One of those pieces of gear that makes me want to listen to everything now!
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They are a classic for a reason. IMO they are special with tube amplification. I have a DarkVoice tube amp and have also been enjoying them with my recently acquired PS Audio BHK Preamp.

The 6XX are a nice contrast to the more detailed LCD-X I usually listen to.
 
MikeH said:
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I just noticed this yesterday when I was listening to some Bose QC Ultra headphones. The Bose Preset sounds good. Just need to make sure you don’t have other DSP from the Bose app on at the same time.

I will try this with my other headphones to see how it sounds. I’m not a fan of the Audeze filter tuning for the LCD-X that already exists in Roon.
 
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