Refusal to take responsibility.
Hi, Just thought I would make a note here of your handling of my issues. I ordered a pair of HD6xx headphones and then earlier today recieved the package. I drive to go and get it, as I like in the UK I had to pay import tax and handling fees. These total £47.92. The breakdown being £35.92 in tax and £12 in fees. These taxes were calculated of the shipping label of the box, which marked the shipment as the 6xx headphones of $199 value. Before leaving the parcel depot, I open the box to find a $35 lord of the rings mousepad. So now the problem is not only do I not have the headphones, but you have marked the shipment wrong so I have paid £47.92 fees for the handling of the mousepad. Which would have acrued £0 of fees if marked correctly as it is under £135. I go back to the desk but as I have already paid the fees I am unable to reject the shipment, but as the box said 6xx, there was no way for me to know before opening it. I contact support and they offer me a replacement, which...
Jan 17, 2025
I've gotten into headphones in earnest recently. All of a sudden I find myself with a modest collection of headphones - Hifiman 400is, Thinksound ON2s, 1MORE triple driver on-ears, Sennheiser HD-6XXs, and now HD-58X Jubilees - along with some headphone-intended use electronics - NAD D 3020 integrated amplifier, Meridian Explorer2, and Schiit Modi Multibit. I've been tremendously impressed with the quality and the price-performance value of so much of what's available today, and all this kits falls under that.
I'm enjoying the journey today quite a bit, but I still haven't found exactly what I'm looking for, and haven't gotten to the level of palpability of a very good speakered system. I feel like I'm close to what I'd be satisfied with, so I suspect it's out there. These 58X Jubilees get me closer. IF, as is often reported, the driver in the Massdrop Sennheiser HD-58X Jubilee is the same as used in the HD-660S and HD-700, but with different tunings, well, the 580X Jubilee might just be a bit of a reasonable sampler of all three of these headphones.
Mixing and matching my electronics across different types and quality of recordings, my general impressions are thus... The "veil" I've known from the original 580 Precision and the 6XX/650 isn't there with the 58X Jubilee. The high frequencies are more forward and articulated without being bright or over-emphasized, and the bass is also more articulated and extended. That frequency area around the upper bass/lower midrange is less congested, too, compared with the 6XX/650, which can at best give the 6XX/650 a lovely, organic texture, or bloat and muddiness with some recordings.
Soundstage? Imaging? I'll just conveniently pass on these elements here. Headphones are a peculiar kind of animal here, quite different from a two-channel speakered system... Detail and ambiance retrieval and presentation. Very good. It's there. Tonal character and texture. Yep. Plenty good. It's all convincing with nothing that calls out as a gross coloration. Dynamics scale? Nice job here, too.
What I feel I'm looking for is this headphone with more transparency and a more convincingly spaced soundstage. Or a Hifiman HE-400i with smoother high frequency response and deeper bass reach? That would be closing in further to what I think I want. Even though I'm still looking for something a little more, I gave the Massdrop Sennheiser Jubilee 5 stars because it's all by itself and on its own an excellent audio product - sounds great, looks good, well-made, comfortable - at any price, and a remarkable value at the Massdrop price.