


While I can see where you are coming from, it is not relevant for me to use anything other than headphones and possibly a subpac for this year, and likely the next due to the circumstances that I find myself in currently. You don't happen to know some good sources regarding those headphones that I can take a look at, or any of the other Ether cans from Dan's company? I am more than happy to read other suggestions outside of the list I've written. If there's anything else that you would like to add to the discussion unrelated to the HD650's, I am all ears. But I digress, thank you for the feedback. But it seems like you've spent a lot of time trying to combat said misinformation which, if true, is something that I admire. There's much that can be said regarding the widespread misinformation regarding headphones, cables and audio in general. I believe I've looked into reviews among other things that you've written in the past on your own website (?). That aside, I appreciate that you took the time sharing those measurements and explanations. Like you said, while the distortion may be relatively high when compared to some headphones - there comes a point where the differences are likely to be, practically speaking, negligible outside of looking fancy on paper, confirmation bias, placebo, etc. I said that it was a potential concern of mine while remaining fully aware that it was likely a non-issue. However, if you re-read my post, I never claimed that the distortion on the HD650's were high, I never used an adverb to describe its characteristic. Besides, I didn't notice an issue with the distortion while trying them out with Sonarworks, so there's that. Those are all points that I see merit in, I agree It is pretty much what the response from Sonarworks engineering department was as well regarding the distortion, even with EQ applied in the low-end. That distortion graph seem quite alarming, it reminds me of what I've seen in the more expensive Shure SRH product lines (1840, for example).
