The velour pads are exchangeable and all black. Its very low weight contributes to this as well and ensures one can do longer listening sessions with it. The clamping force is ‘medium’ so it won’t move around on the head easily. Height adjustment and tilt of the cups is large enough to suit most head sizes well. The pads do feel a bit ‘prickly’ and firm but reckon that over time they will soften up and feel more comfortable. The headband is soft and comfortable and so are the velours pads. The cable is slightly microphonic so in quiet passages and silences the cable rubbing against clothes is audible in the left cup. It comes with a 3m detachable cable and has a 6.3mm plug. 2016) it sold for around € 150 but at the end 2020 the street price dropped to around € 80.- This is the cheaper little brother of the HD599. The Sennheiser HD 559 is an open over-ear headphone. The bigger the deviation the stronger the effect.īelow an aid to help determining the sound character of headphones with relation to the frequency response. Deviations in different severities at different frequency bands have an effect on the sound character. A horizontal line shows audible neutral response in the plots on this website. The shape of your head, bone structure, pad size, pad ‘softness, (compliance), hair or no hair and or wearing glasses may (drastically) change the frequency response of some headphones, so… your personal experience may differ substantially from these plots.įrequency response (tonal balance) is the most sound-determining aspect of headphones. This is described HERE in more detail.Ī ‘ horizontal‘ frequency response curve on the shown frequency response plots on this website thus indicates a perceived ‘flat’ tonal signature.ĪLL measurements are made with a good SEAL on a flatbed measurement rig. I do not use smoothing because some info about sound quality is lost when plots are smoothed.Īside from a small correction of the microphone itself also some correction in the lowest frequencies is applied to the plots to compensate for the perceived loss of bass when using headphones. Most measurement sites have some smoothing applied which ‘irons flat’ sharp peaks and ‘wiggles’.

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