Sennheiser HD 800 S | Open-Back Dynamic Headphones

Absolutely worth the price

Beautiful

Excellent timber, beautiful overall sound. Besides being well known for its expansive stage this pair of headphones just represents everything clear in a way you will not hear with other headphones. Everything is heard but also has quality around each instrument being heard. Love it!

Fantastic, sad I waited this long

The soundstage is real. A true legend. I use them A) for competitive FPS gaming B) for relaxing and enjoying music that highlight imaging, soundstage, and seperation C) when mastering as another way to audition a track before printing. It's not a reference pair of cans, but they're the most exciting set I've ever used. If you happen to play FPS games, it's like you have wallhacks. You can spatially pinpoint footsteps 30 feet away. It's basically cheating. They sound a bit better with a proper amp/dac, but just using a run-of-the-mill delta sigma ESS Sabre audio interface (MOTU Ultralite Mk5) with an integrated headphone amp works 92% I'd say. More than fine.