

I would recommend listening to an HD600 rig through a DSP that can emulate room space such as Waves Abbey Road Studio 3. So ultimately, an HD800 will sound different /wider than say an HD650 but it gives up natural tonality to accomplish this and still doesn't emulate proper soundstage. But this still doesn't emulate a room environment with speakers. The HD800 sounds bigger for a couple reasons - primarily its EQ curve as well as its internal transient reflections due to its cup design. Most on this forum describe soundstage in an artificial sense. Lower sub bass frequencies can also be tricky to setup. Additionally, in a room environment, you will hear room reflections, particularly those of higher frequencies.
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In such case a high-end system that is properly setup can cost many thousands of dollars plus the time required to set it up.įor stereo music, it is engineered around these acoustics in which both of your ears hear each speaker channel. Few people have such setups or even experience this. You would then sit in a 'sweet spot' that depending on the speakers can be fairly narrow.

At best, it requires a treated room, and then an equalized sound system that best matches the room profile. To experience what these recordings truly should sound like is no easy feat. The reason for this is that the majority of music, especially high-quality classical recordings, are engineered and mastered for two-channel stereo systems played in a room environment. Headphones (providing they don't have built-in DSP or crossfeed) are not good at soundstage reproduction of stereo music. Something to consider, I' ve copied this from a comment I made on another post with regards to headphone soundstage:
