So there are the reviews for DT 990 (PRO) also the DT 770 and DT880 ....
When DT990 (PRO) to make matters worse still wrong pictures exist ..... namely that of more expensive DT990 Edition 2005 ...
To review:
I have compared in a total of more hour test in a quiet environment ("Purebred" HiFi stores) and with high quality HiFi components.
Music that has come here to use, was among other things:
(Chris Rea (Pop / Pop-Rock), Madonna (Synth-pop), Titanic Soundtrack (classical with synth-pop).
+ A few more CDs to a wide spectrum of sound cover.
Comparison with other gesture steady headphones:
AKG K 701
This appealed to me AFTER the DT 990 ED. 2005 best !!!
-plus: Still a bit clearer, finer resolved and "silkier / smoother" heights.
- Minus: too weak, too little bass and volume.
Therefore, he did not come into question.
Seating was in my head but comfortable.
Design ... a matter of taste ... -find the DT990 ED.2005 much fancier ...
Absolute recommendation but for all people like the little bass, but prefer it very height-driven sound.
AKG K 601
Quite similar to AKG K 701 with slightly less brilliance / silky highs.
Denon AH-D 2000
(Closed headphone)
Hab just really briefly had since I immediately discovered something in the sound, which I absolutely do not like to suffer.
- It sounds somehow as if one speaks into a "vessel".
So for example in a glass or cup.
The same is true for the
Beyerdynamic DT 770 ED.2005
(Closed headphone)
He could also not convince me why. Sounded like the Denon somehow "sticky" and "hollow".
Although DT990 is indeed the open version of the DT770 and otherwise identical design, the DT990 sounds
Not a bit
sticky or hollow ...
Therefore (in this regard) sound "relationship" with the Denon can probably only put down to the closed construction.
Beyerdynamic DT 880 ED.2005
Have somehow not real "improvement" over my Sennheiser HD 600 can determine.
Sound stage stop completely different ......... but somehow not really "better" ....
Has therefore made no sense as a swing ....
I did not find him as "spatial" and "brilliant" as the 990s. Even the bass was less pressure.
The sound is slightly shallower and central. -For my taste too boring, which I already knew
the Sennheiser HD 600 ...
Stax
(Electrostatic headphones)
In this headset I can not remember the model number, only the price.
700 Euro.
-Would Anyway have been too expensive to me.
Sound:
Somewhat more supple than DT990 .... and something else which I can not put into words at the moment ....
I can put into words, however, the bottom line for this comparison.
One does not need.
Sound somehow different, but not really better.
The much praised in electrostatic "much higher resolution" I could not really notice.
(I had a companion case to which that also was true ...)
The 990 resolves details in similar good, sounds airier and still powerful.
Grado RS-2
Sound me to center / occupied and around to make short "boring".
A much longer description in my opinion simply does not deserve this handset.
In addition, the relationship between design / materials at the price is a joke ...... at least in Germany. In America, the prices are about half ....
-I find it but even still far too expensive ...
Grado SR-225
Sound "OK"
-Much too expensive, this super cheap Seeming.
Had sonically some resemblance to my
Sennheiser HD 600
This I had bought eight years and due to good reviews in various magazines HiFi blind.
Should mutatis mutandis, the non plus ultra to have been in the price range around 600 DM ....
Well. I got gestelllt available in the course of a comparative hearing two CD players in stereo business a Beyerdynamic headphones, and my brother and I found the headset absolutely stunning.
Because even now these journals at the time claimed the HD 600 would be virtually the first choice in this price range and it was 600 then the HD in M ..... market with us in close for 400 DM, I took him.
(Must actually be "the best" ..... and then the Super bargain price ....)
Well. What followed was home about supposed "improvements" to the included in the hi-fi shop Beyer .......... "disenchantment" ....
Where's the brilliance? Where is the phenomenal space / audibility? Where is the "air" of "square" in the sound ???
Where the rich bass?
Instead:
Harte "cutting-aggressive" and pappige centers, rather "restrained" heights, all very "compact" and simple ..... BORING .....
The upper bass is too bloated when Sennheiser something already partly derived almost roar.
-The Does not the DT990.
However, this emphasizes the low bass, which contributes to a powerful sound without the sound overall "to getting muddy" or "thicken".
It must be said that some records sound better on this, others on those headphones fairness.
Also, the HD 600, in some plates to catch up with the DT 990, with a few even surpass him.
However, the ratio falls to about 80% compared with the HD600 clearly for the benefit of the DT990 from.
Generally speaking, it's a similar quality category and partly just a matter of taste which headphones you now preferred.
Convenient both - with a slight Vorspung for Senn, who has just a little more space in the housing.
The cushions are great at both.
Although the total DT990 really "satisfied", "approximately", and quite pleasantly soft sounds, because it is matched perfectly in almost all frequency ranges, is in terms of "highs" but a little criticism mounted.
Some -straight älteren- recordings, emphasizing the treble works very well. They are "refreshed".
In not a few, especially newer recordings it comes through a height "peak" (a maximum score) sometimes something unpleasant excesses.
This peak (a blessing in disguise) is limited to an area apparently -This is about 8 KHz.
This Freqenzbereich does not represent the absolute brilliance, but some of the heights of the already still can sound a little "hard" .... unfortunately ....
-The Makes itself especially in loud sometimes "S-sounds" noticeable.
I hope Beyerdynamic will repair a bit in the future at the 8 kHz Peak and dampen this area by about 3 decibels. -To be the biggest criticism already eradicated and the DT990 "public friendly" ....
The rest of the height spectrum is but as I said really enjoyable and easy to only be described as "fresh".
Furthermore, let me say that the bass although quite precise acts and certainly not booming, but there are headphones that a somewhat "konturierteren" Bass produce. Also a suggestion for the future maybe ....
Enough of the "criticism".
The Beyerdynamic has set itself in the sum of all properties over all tested candidates clear leader and hence my decision is not really easy for me to doubt.
Ansich I am an absolute skeptic, but in this case the decision was (fortunately) easy times. ;-)
