Hifiman Sundara vs Sennheiser HD 25

This is a planar magnetic over-ear open back headphone that comes in right at around $350. So let's take a look. This review unit was sourced through ...

The HD25 went on to be really, really successful with DJs with a DJ more focused aluminium version be released just a few years ago to celebrate the 2...

Seriously? For me, however, the dealbreaker was comfort. The housings on these things are very large and the clamping force is substantial. No matter how much I adjusted them, the pads on the housings pressed hard on the back of my ears and the bottom rear of my jaw, and I found that I could wear them for much more than thirty minutes before I have to take them off. This may have to do with the fact that the ear cup housings do not rotate at all, they are fixed perpendicular to the headband, and thus there's no compensation for pressure differences from the front to the back of the ear cups against your head/ears

The headband is split down the middle and connected by hinges, so it can be adjusted to look and feel like one single headband, or two thinner bands, one pushed forward on the head and the other backward, for an extremely stable fit. Somehow, these headphones manage to stay comfortable and simultaneously almost completely stationary on the head, even when you're moving around quite a bit.

I bought these headphones in 2020 about 1 and a half years ago and I use them daily at my desktop for about 8-10 hours a day. After the first year the headband completely shattered one day out of nowhere on the left side and I discovered the band made from cheap plastic and fake metal-plastic with the exception of 2 of the 8 pieces of the band. After gluing it together with super glue and trying to work with it, it has repeatedly broken over and over with no solution and now the ear pads it comes with are COMPLETELY destroyed from just daily wear. For 300$ this is 100% not worth it over the Sennheiser competitor options

I originally didn't actually like the HD25s very much because I just found them a bit uncomfortable, but after using them in a variety of situations l...

Also these are some of the most open headphones ever. If you can hear your music someone 10 feet away can as well. As far as comfort goes they aren't the worst for me. Their pads are scratchy and slightly small, while the headband is just fine

B) They're much, much less comfortable in every way. The headband is smaller and less adjustable, the ear cups are tiny and less padded. And I don't understand the point of the rotating left cup at all. When I am DJing using only one ear cup it moves a bit, and then when I drop the headphones back around my neck they stick out at a weird angle