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I'm not new to the Sennheiser HD 600-650 6xx whatever it is you want to call it I bought my pair of them along with a selection of cans from the likes of Bayer dynamic AKG Odyssey and Audio Technica back in late 2013 when I was working on a review of some other audiophile headphones and I realized that I lacked the context to discuss their place in the market anyway while I was able to achieve the context I desired for one reason or another I never actually got around to reviewing any of those contextual headphones in the case of the Sennheiser HD 600 specifically it was because while I loved them and they became I still to this day daily driver about a year later they are very very similar replacement the HD 650 s already existed and I wasn't going to run out and drop another $400 on the same damn product so that I could make a video that would already be 10 years past its best before date but there's good news mass drop is in the house with their Sennheiser HD 6 xx mass drop Edition aka the excuse to have Brandon shoot seven minutes of gorgeous b-roll on the 20 year old product that I think is awesome not to mention spoiler alert and unbelievable value Corsairs ml fans feature magnetic levitation technology and custom engineered rotors to provide a high performance low noise experience learn more at the link in the video description so let's kick this off with what exactly makes the Sennheiser HD 6 X X a mass drop Edition product not much compared to the HD 650 it features a shorter cord that terminates in a three and a half millimeter jack instead of a quarter inch jack oh there's an adapter two quarter inch if you want and the plastic colour scheme has been changed from a speckled grey to a really dark almost black matte blue that feels a little cheap IMO and that's it their matte blue HD 650 s with a 50 inch cable and a smaller connector on the end and oh right wait for it this is where I dropped the big change the bomb they've got a cheaper black and white packaging I've got my confirmation from Sennheiser directly that unlike previous mass drop Edition products like the k7 xx nothing has been altered acoustically so then for the uninitiated what are the HD 650 s and why should you care they are along with their close siblings the HD 600 and HD 580 one of the most famous audiophile headphones in the world whose performance has been chased by other manufacturers at this price point since the release of the original over 20 years ago in 1993 and whose sound signature I would say even more so than the flagship HD 800 series is identifiable as the Sennheiser sound since from my experience it bears more similarity to the company's lower end products just better so that is to say they're not accurate in the same sense that a studio monitor might be accurate they don't have a totally flat frequency response curve but this is by design to make them less fatiguing and more natural sounding on human ears where they're intended to be worn and they don't make the mistake that many mainstream headphones do today of overdoing the bass at the expense of the clarity of everything else because that's what sells to Millennials they sound great whether you listen to them out of the box or tune the EQ because you do like a little bit more thump on the subjective out of the box the included cables are replaceable so you can go bananas replacing them and you can run out and buy a shit audio valhalla 2 headphone amplifier but in spite of their 300 ohm impedance they also destroy just about anything else at this price point running off of an iPhone so just because you don't have additional budget for an app today doesn't mean I would stay away from them with that said though even fans of the HD 600 series don't believe that they are perfect they are not a fashion statement and are definitely part of the reason that the original monster beats by dre was able to storm onto the personal audio scene in 2008 by not looking stupid even though they didn't work without a battery in them suffered from subpar build quality and sounded like thumpy ass but at least the HD 600 series is comfortable clamping pressure out of the box might be a little tighter than some would like and the earcup foam isn't the softest memory foam known to man or anything like that that award is reserved for the bose qc25 s but they break in very nicely over time to the point where it's easy for me to forget that I'm wearing mine entirely but a part of that too I think is the open backed design of the HD 600 series the benefit of this is the natural sound of the music movies or games that you're listening to with the drawback being though that ambient noise can be disruptive and well let's just say I wouldn't flip on some really loud angry porn with your mom in the next room because everyone around you knows exactly what you're listening to which leads me then pretty well into a conclusion that is both obvious and very difficult for me to write on the one hand I feel the need to defend myself from the incoming barrage of comments criticizing me for giving a positive review to a product available exclusively from one of our sponsors but on the other hand I can use literally any headphone I want I literally have more than one shelf of headphones and headsets ranging anywhere from 50 bucks to over a thousand and these or ones almost exactly like them are the ones on my desk at home so for some of you that won't be enough and that's fine - steel tips whatever for the rest of you go grab some HD 6 X X's assuming there are any left the 350 that I paid second hand felt like a good deal already $200 brand-new is an absolutely unreal value for these enjoy today in front of me I've got the bloody gaming peripheral line up from a4 text they sent us a bunch of their products they're d500 gaming headset which has got 40 millimeter drivers an inline mic and is 39.99 on Newegg for a limited time there be 720 keyboard which is a full layout keyboard that comes with 8 silicon key caps as well as an extended palm rest there ZL 50 mouse is Driver free and comes with on a vago 9800 sensor and there B 0 70 is a smooth surface mousepad that I was getting it all over you can see this and more over at new egg at the link in the video description for a limited time so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured I damn it I'm just kidding it's not an Amazon mass drop in the video description also linked in the description is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join now that you're done doing all that stuff you probably wondering what to watch next so click that little button in the top right to check out our latest video over on channels super-fun