Comfort, quality, shape:
When unpacking I was very pleased with the momentum. Stylish, trendy and "hipsteresk". For so many determined a great expensive necklace, like the one written here. Great quality, and so everything has already been said. The comfort is really great, even if it is clearly an "on-ear" and not "over-ear".
The Focal is greater and the ironing presses start something on his head. Funnily enough, that goes away after a few hours wear. Comfort is also great, although the mussels my ears (normal size) not completely enclose and partly depend on it. The processing is IMHO better than the Sennheiser (have both ordered in brown). Both also jump on the trendy leather-train. With Success. Both have two cables while, the Focal even a 4m cable for the facility. Toll something!
Sound:
So I put me a few pieces cope. Everything FLAC. Since I was looking for a "test-playlist" and have little found here my choices:
Eagles - Hotel California (Live, Hell Freezes Over, 1984)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Immersion Edition, 2011)
The Alan Parsons Project - The Cask Of Amontillado
Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Remastered 2012)
David Bowie - Five Years (Remastered 2012)
ACDC - Highway to Hell (Remastered 2003)
Electric Hippies - Did not Mean To Make You Cry
Yello - Oh Yeah 2009
Alison Krauss - Get Me Through December
Joe Cocker - Do not Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Lindsey Stirling - Electric Daisy Violin
The Piano Guys - Rockelbel's Canon (Pachelbel Canon In D)
Stone Temple Pilots - Out Of Time
After the first session, when I carried all three receiver alternately, what I sorely disappointed with the two newcomers. The momentum was with much too dull, the Focal me the bass was missing. In retrospect, I'm scared of how much you get used to the bath listening such headphones ...
I have both wrapped directly again. After a few hours it was then but ripped me again and again have both given a second chance.
Result:
The Sennheiser's nothing for me. The bass puncht not, comes rather dizzy. The "high altitudes" are there, the "normal levels" are missing, in the middle of Little verschlucht many details. The IE80 sounds to me almost better (compared Inear-Overear limps, I know ...). Since I also benefits the comfort nothing ...
The Focal inspires me now more and more. He is aligned very linear, but has a lively bass without droning too. A Bass Head headphones I've already (DT 770 PRO). The Frenchman but it rips out the details. As you can hear every little nuance of the instruments. Here I have the first time the feeling of listening to the big stage, all speak of here. The sound is really very clear to me as a layman. This thing plays classical music just as sovereign as well ACDC. I'm really excited.
