Well, the 580's are not bad, but still not as good in the midrange as the 650's... however, really surprise you not picking up, the compression effect (or the skin effect sound ). Just to let you know, we have Studio Tannoy Monitors Speakers... and just listening threw these speakers, there is a difference in sound texture and coloration of sound... and dynamics. Yes, we did in fact, by-pass all other recording equipment, and ran the sound inputs direct. Cheer's Richard On May 3, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Kirk McElhearn wrote: > > On May 3, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Richard Nagle wrote: > >> its not.. may flaws in the compression schema. >> in fact with my NEW Sennheiser HD650 headphones, >> hearing the difference is like NIGHT and DAY. > > Placebo effect. I've got Sennheiser HD 580s (as well as Ultimate Ears > UE-10s) and there's no comparing. In fact, for most music, even AAC at > 160 sounds nearly as good as the original. > > > Kirk > > Author of: The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood > - - - - - - > Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com > Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more > Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France > > > _______________________________________________ > iTunes mailing list > iTunes at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/itunes > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >