[ vocal sibilance problems, midrange is linear ]HD 650 =

but again, harsh treble and sibilance.

The Ultrasone HFI-780 has absolutely terrible sibilance/sibilant

I have EQ to fix the treble (particularly the 10khz peak that causes sibilance in some tracks) and boost the bass (I am a bass head, as long as the bass does not muddle the mid)

But sometimes, some songs (especially recent ones, with lots of loudness and compression) have a harsh treble with the X2, a slightly annoying sibilance that I've never found on Sennheisers

Sibilance was also bad.

They do win by a small margin over the HD-650’s because of the miniscule clamping force

I definitely liked HD-700 less than 800’s.

I really liked the phillips shp9500’s, and these improved upon everything I liked about those.

"Holy S***"

I changed the earcup pads to the XL memory foam size and it was better, but not as good as for example the Sony or KEF in comfort level.

Leather covering the headband is a bit more shiny and the Philips Fidelio is embossed a bit deeper on the first unit but not applied as well as on the second unit.5

I have a more neutral set of phones (AKG 701s) that I like a

(i.e. voices sounded nothing like a real life person in front of you, no way you could be confused as to whether a person was singing in front of you), and it was just unpleasant to my ears, period.3

Besides the ones I’ve owned, I have also auditioned their predecessor, the Fidelio X1’s, as well as the

With my humble FiiO E11K or C&C BH amps and my iPod Classic, the X2s are simply as much as I could want in a headphone