Sennheiser HD 600 vs Koss KSC75 Ear Clips

The original HD 600 is a legend in our hobby and its design and its sound has stood the test of time. This is one of the newer versions that has been ...

Because they're actually good!. The KSC75 are $18 open back clip on headphones, and the Quarks are $13 IEMs, and they are both shockingly good sounding for the price. Now obviously they're not amazing in technical detail. But for their price, I would take them over most headphones under $100, and that's impressive at their price point

Clearly the Grado's at $100 are the least expensive with the Momentum jumping up markedly to $299, while the more recently acquired Sennheiser HD600 hit the $400 mark. When a number of them are playing notes together the Grado's sounded smeared compared to the HD600s. Not unlike a poorly created JPEG from a digital point-n-shoot versus a well-made JPEG from an original RAW processed via Adobe Lightroom. Details are are lost in the former, but the latter does a far superior job of keeping the detail even in the process of losing information

You don't need to spend a lot of money for good sound. While my favorite pair of headphones are my Sennheiser HD6XX, my most used pair of headphones is an $18 pair of Koss KSC75's, which after experiencing all the other headphones, I feel I appreciate when you find a good sounding pair of budget headphones even more. TL;DR, good sounding headphones can help train your ear to things you've been missing.

Clear: It’s pretty crazy how comfortable the Clears are for how heavy they are. They are so perfectly balanced on my head that I do forget I have headphones on sometimes.

I really like that there is no band connecting the two earpieces, as I can now lie back in comfort whilst enjoying my music (perhaps while sipping some sort of iced beverage), and the little earhooks are actually not uncomfortable. My only real gripe? There isn't a band connecting the two earpieces. Yes, I'm serious

I’m not a headphone expert, though I have been using them in one form or another dating back to 1977, so a good 40 years on everything from the old Koss white eggshell looking things to Sony’s 1980s on the ear to noise canceling Sony and Bose phones. But for music (hi-fi) my AKGs had been my reference until they were damaged. But this review concerns some AKG K-712s that I purchased at the same time as the Sennheisers specifically to test. In truth I picked up the AKGs after being disappointed with the HD600s; feeling like something was missing

Unfortunately, the ear-clip design isn't the most comfortable. Their ear-hooks stop feeling as intrusive once you've had them on for a while, but if you wear glasses, it doesn't get much better. They also don't isolate any ambient noise at all. While this can be a good thing if you're jogging around the neighborhood, they're not suitable for wearing on the bus, especially since they leak a lot of sound

But those are my thoughts on the new 600. Now I'd love to know your thoughts in the comment section down below. Do you think you'll be picking up a pa...

I saw online as a suggestion to superglue the area where the wire meets the earpiece for greater durability; I have done that and we'll see. They should not advertise that this has a warranty - if you include the time you put into replacement, the customer is taking a loss by using this (non)warranty.

I went around one day in Sydney and tested all the earphones I could find in 3 stores and was just stunned by the performance difference in the Sennheiser compared to the rest. It was a huge difference.

Anker Soundcore Life Q30: Good value Bluetooth over ears with ANC, but I personally don't like how boomy they are. It can be EQ'd, much better, but I don't use them much.

They're about 100usd, and they link to your phone via a very high quality version of bluetooth. You can then plug your headphones into it and it'll do a better job at decoding the audio files, then powering your headphones than almost anything else in the price bracket. the BTR5 is also powerful enough to drive over ear headphones like the Sennheiser HD600's if you decide that you are ready to try something a bit more demanding!.

Later I went to various Panasonic wired earbuds and QCY Bluetooth as commuting solutions. My current headphones most in use were KSC75 earclip and QCY T3.