Apparently the best deal for the 620s to date. buy fast people are ordering from overseas ive seen reddit posts of americans buying it from here
Sennheiser HD 620S Closed Back Headphones $249 Delivered @ Addicted to Audio
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LStabbedYa on 03/08/2025 - 21:42 addictedtoaudio.com.au (1891 clicks)
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no for some reason aus getting them very cheap
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Read pretty mixed review about this, being close back and all. If I already have a pair of hd600s is this remotely comparable in sound quality?Don't have the hd600, but I assume any open back Sennheiser in the same price range would be better. The sound quality is very "Sennheisery". I assume it has better base than hd600 and is easier to drive. And the sound leakage would be a lot better obviously.
apparently it also has is much wider in soundstage which is funny becasue its a closed back vs a open back. detail retrieval obvly not as good as the 600 but still very good and base is much more present but a lil muddy. https://youtu.be/cltpFZLrr5M is a good video to watch for this
I have these. They do an excellent job for me, I was looking for a closed back with great imaging for gaming. For closed backs, these are light years ahead of most things, including your powered noise canceller commuter type headphones. They don't hold a candle to my old beyerdynamics for this purpose, with which I could pinpoint where people were walking around a room above me, for instance. But those were open backed and overly harsh, I didn't use them for anything else, which is why I'm eyeing off their new built-for-gaming-purpose open backs for gaming.
These are fairly…."meh" but in a good way. Don't have the fun oversaturation/v-shape bass of powered noise cancellers like Sony XM's, don't have the clarity of the open back treble monsters, but are overall warm sounding, inoffensive, comfortable, clear, and easy to listen to for extended durations. I find it's only when I try other options that I realise how spoiled my daily drivers have made me.
Will be my daily workhorse for a fair while, but they're just a tool to me. At $250 though I think you'd be hard pressed to beat them, because a lot around and below this point have definite flaws, or you wouldn't want to wear for hours. And I have been dissapointed time and time again (the closed back Fiio for instance, sound like they're made of transparent eggshells. Sennheisers always had a black magic to their passive noise cancelling, see the HD25's).
Thanks for the detailed response. That seems like a good balance for a closed back.
- Its still a bit unclear to me if you recommend it for gaming or not. I upgraded to 600s from a pair of 560s and the soundstaging (imaging?) is so much worse that I exclusively use the 560s for gaming. Would this be an up/down/sidegrade?
- Do these get really hot for extended usage? Like on the scale from HD600 (obviously not comparable) to XM5s how bad are they?
The 560 would be better for gaming as open back will have better soundstage.
Soundstage is one of the biggest considerations when choosing a headset for gaming.
It allows for an immersive experience.
I would just stay with your 560 if that's what you are aiming for.@maverickjohn: I see, I'll hang on to the 560s then. I keep thinking to myself expensive=better but time and time again the 560s just fare well against the big bois. Even with sound quality when I switch between the 2 I honestly never felt like 'holy this is life changing'
It might change when I'm in the tax bracket for hd800s haha
RE: 600s, you'll probably prefer to the 650, but as per my comment further down, they need a good amp to scale (and a good DAC to deliver more of the spatial depth you're looking for).
In that kind of setup, the 600 and 650 will step up alongside the 560S while having better tonal balance and better resolution and timbre.
If you must have a closed back, this is a fantastic option.
If your environment allows for an open back, I've found them superior for gaming imaging.
Yes and no. Timbre in the ballpark, tonality no. This is a test case in psychoacoustics that has too much mid-bass in the mix, amongst other tonal quirks.
You can EQ it to be neutral just fine, but it will lose some of that sense of soundstage width due to the upper mids being brought back up.
If you're happy to do that, it'spretty good for $250 and it has great passive isolation, but essentially it's a driver and enclosure similar to the HD560S so set your expectations at that level. It's also been this price on sale several times now, on several platforms (usually Sennheiser AU's eBay store).
Outside of this, you can get much better bass quality and extension - as well as tonal balance out of the box - via the FiiO FT1, which goes for $20 more locally, and $60-$70 cheaper in AliE sales, but you will lose a little resolution and detail (and it is a little v-shaped to really emphasise the bass from the massive driver they helped make).
I've found them very source dependant. Great on my desktop setup but only okay off a btr17. Very very isolating though which is a good plus.
Very very good for 250$ either way I reckonisnt it really easy to drive though
Sennheiser drivers tend to have a massive impedance hump at 100-150 Hz, and then an upward slope into the high treble.
This is no exception: nominal impedance is 159 ohms, but there's a 370 ohms peak centred around 100Hz that slopes down to 20Hz and 500Hz either side, then the high treble lift kicks in at 9kHz and peaks at 225 ohm @ 20kHz.
You need a capable amp circuit that deals with these impedance swings to maximise the technical performance of the bass, typically seen in a decent discrete design, or a tube amp, but these headphones roll off in the bass and the driver isn't otherworldly, so they're not going to scale the way 600 or 650/6XX will.
Thanks for the acknowledgement.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/16786367/redir
Anyway cheapest to date but I think the 659 for $336 from sennheiser is the better headset it's just they are open backsdiff uses cases one is open and the other is closed but u might be right in sound atleast. thanks i update the disc with best deal to date
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How is this for gaming? Especially for fps positioning audio eg footsteps
https://youtu.be/MIkmVhR_A5g?t=622 apparently insanely good at half price makes this argument very strong
Highly recommended. Pairing the HD620s with the HD490 Pro has me covered indefinitely.
How do these compare to the similarly priced Fiio FT1?
Fiio's sounds very similair, very clean, but didn't have half the passive noise cancelling effect when I backed to backed these specific two sets in store. Huge difference.
For gaming imaging I'm told the sennie's have the edge due to angled drivers, and I believe it.
Seems to be priced back at $599 now
Dang, I snoozed and I looooooooosed
ah well, time for 2x 3030i and a budget amp
I suspect that they wanted to discount the 560s but someone messed up.
They look almost he same in a small thumbnail.
Yeah possibly, but Amazon had a pretty similar sale before I think
oh i thought this was the normal price now, because I see this price everytime I check