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Jail4banksters
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Jul 12, 2018
I'm interested in hearing the 660's, but I've only listened to my 6xx's vs 600's. I listened to them both in one setting with some pretty good sources and amps. An Oppo HA-1, a Jot with its onboard DAC and the HA-1 as source, some lesser Schitt stuff with HA-1, and I came away thinking I was happy with my $199 drop. I do like the warmer fatter low end, and greatly prefer the colour of mine. I think if I had to do it over again I might lean toward the 600's as they were a bit more neutral, thus my vote. When considering price though (and aesthetics), I'd definitely go 6xx. Neither being good reasons to buy hifi.....
To give an idea of where I'm coming from I traded fully aktiv Linn Majik 109's for fully aktiv Linn Ninkas. Translation: I like mellow. The 109's are incredibly revealing, but the Ninkas just rocked better while still being world class transducers, and most importantly could be listened to for hours, like the 6xx's.
I now have a Massdrop cheapo Aune X7s (XLR out) fed by either my Oppo 105D (the same DAC as the HA1) or my Linn MDSM/2, because neither, superlative boxes by any standard, can drive the Senns as well as they can go with only their own puny headphone outputs. So yes, you've gotta get an amp.
BTW, HD6xx's sound pretty darn good straight out of my LG v30+ (which now has a bootloader exploit!)!
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