Amazon deal of today, not the lowest price in the history but still good.
Product Description
The HD 598 headphones combine impeccable sound quality with unrivaled comfort. This elegantly styled over-ear, open back headphone features ear cups with high-gloss burl wood detail complementing premium metal mesh. Innovative acoustic engineering delivers incredibly natural, detailed and balanced sound. A high-quality leatherette headband and velour covered ear cushions provide outstanding wearing comfort for long listening sessions.
Sennheiser's innovative E.A.R. technology is featured in the HD 598. This positions the transducers inside the ear cups to channel audio signals directly into your ears producing a more realistic, spatial listening experience. The transducers employ a special diaphragm geometry that minimizes intermodulation and harmonic distortion while delivering high output and impressive frequency response.
Box Contains
HD 598 Special Edition headphones
Cable 1: 3 m copper cable (OFC)/ 6.3mm straight plug
I have some of these and they sound really good to my ears.
Worth noting that they are the open back style, so you will be sharing your music with anyone near you.
powerbrick
31 Oct 16#3
looking at that chart it seems they were on offer last Black Friday, maybe the same this year as they do tend to repeat the same stock items.
Arcana to powerbrick
31 Oct 161#5
I hope you are right.
I can't really justify spending £99 on a spare set of cans, but if they got closer to the £80 mark I'd struggle to say no.
On the other hand, I'd be surprised if they are going to be heavily reduced twice in 1 month.
TALON1973
31 Oct 16#4
got the non se version. damn good .. but not as good as my 650s :wink:
rev6 to TALON1973
31 Oct 16#9
:confused:
ste1975 to TALON1973
31 Oct 16#10
I should hope not considering the 650's are 250 notes.
shaky1910
31 Oct 16#6
got the cream ones and the sound is exceptional but they do leak a lot of sound due to the open back design
heat added though
Aradria to shaky1910
31 Oct 16#16
I have these and they're great and surprisingly the sound doesn't leak out as much as I thought it would. If you use them in a quiet room at a sensible volume nobody else can hear them much. But if you use them outside or on a bus or whatever you'll need them loud to cancel out the incoming noise which will annoy people and damage your ears. Get closed headphones for that!
Paid £80 for a used pair of creams so this is pretty good for new.
mikeyfive
31 Oct 161#7
Not as good as your HD650s? Not 250 quid either.
Speedsurfer
31 Oct 16#8
Perfect thanks OP. Just what I was after! :smiley:
basergorkobal
31 Oct 16#11
Great pair of cans. And the se looks so much better:)
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Product Description
The HD 598 headphones combine impeccable sound quality with unrivaled comfort. This elegantly styled over-ear, open back headphone features ear cups with high-gloss burl wood detail complementing premium metal mesh. Innovative acoustic engineering delivers incredibly natural, detailed and balanced sound. A high-quality leatherette headband and velour covered ear cushions provide outstanding wearing comfort for long listening sessions.
Sennheiser's innovative E.A.R. technology is featured in the HD 598. This positions the transducers inside the ear cups to channel audio signals directly into your ears producing a more realistic, spatial listening experience. The transducers employ a special diaphragm geometry that minimizes intermodulation and harmonic distortion while delivering high output and impressive frequency response.
Box Contains
HD 598 Special Edition headphones
Cable 1: 3 m copper cable (OFC)/ 6.3mm straight plug
Cable 2: 1.2m audio cable/3.5mm straight plug;3.5mm adaptor plug
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Worth noting that they are the open back style, so you will be sharing your music with anyone near you.
I can't really justify spending £99 on a spare set of cans, but if they got closer to the £80 mark I'd struggle to say no.
On the other hand, I'd be surprised if they are going to be heavily reduced twice in 1 month.
heat added though
Paid £80 for a used pair of creams so this is pretty good for new.