Recently the right driver in my HD660s stopped working and upon investigation, I've noticed that one of the thin cables leading into the driver has broken where it bends (hopefully that makes sense).
Sadly the headphones are out of warranty and I was wondering if anyone would know a ball park estimate on how much a replacement driver from Sennheiser would be? So far Sennheiser Australia has been rather unhelpful and I'm just trying to figure out if it'll be worth repairing or just picking up a new set.
Yeah, still got this piece of ancient tech. It's the best headset I've ever had, and it still works just fine. I recently got a new pc, but the driver is nowhere to be found. Turning on and off my dongle does nothing, and the deep deep sound that the headset once gave is now gone :(. I've tried multiple links to places to download the driver, but with no luck. Anyone got some tips?
They just came in today and sound great but they're a bit quiet so I was wondering if there were any drivers I needed to download or a program I should get to be able to use them at their full potential. Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thank You!
I compared the IE 300s mostly to the JVC HA-FW01 earphones ($349), which are comparable in price and also use a single dynamic driver (albeit an 11mm one with about 2.5 times the surface area). I also compared them with the 1More Quad Drivers (originally $199.99, now selling for a bit more than half that on Amazon) and the Meze Rai Pentas ($1099), a high-end five-driver design.
I think the IE 300 earphones provide some of the best sound you can get for $300. That might seem like a lot to pay for a set of rather ordinary-looking single-driver earphones, but if sound quality matters more than bragging rights, these will float your boat.
I sincerely think this is the biggest drawback of these headphones, maybe the only drawback that caught my attention on the HD 660 S as well as on all other dynamic driver Sennheiser models: the sub-bass starts to distort beyond 95dB of volume. I think this problem is not even present for an untrained ear. My father still claims the HD 650 sounds crystal clear, so it depends on the listener.
Worst case scenario is that the drivers need to be replaced, and the closest thing to original HD580 drivers that Sennheiser still produces today, are the HD600 drivers. Allegedly with new production HD600 drivers, the resulting sound will vary only a slight amount at most compared to the originals, likely an insignificant amount.
Sennheiser spare part number 534409. Available in original Black finish only. Please note this item is supplied individually. If you need to replace the capsules / drivers in both ears, please order two units.
Likewise, you already no doubt would have read about the Sennheiser HD800 over the years. These came out in 2009, sporting the large 56mm "ring radiator" driver (vs. 42mm transducer of the HD650). The HD800 has since been revised with the HD800S in 2016 (here's Tyll's take with mods discussions). Multiple reviews on Head-Fi. The HD800S sounds very similar to the HD800 to me.
My friend linnrd bought this headphone back in 2013 used and was able to lend them to me for a listen. Peeking behind the metal grille in the image above, we see that this is not the oldest version based on the color of the driver surrounding material which is silverish/white rather than the pre-2010 version that would have been all black (based on a comment here). So based on this, unless there is a more precise way to find manufacturing date using the serial number (1409XX), this specific headphone was "Made In Ireland" at some point likely between 2010-2012. (I've sent an E-mail to Sennheiser with the serial number, will update if they send me more info.)
I had this problem for a while and probably also a combination of solutions was required. Still, I think that in my case the problem was that the headphones had a double bluetooth connection with my laptop and was jumping between connections: the normal Audio bluetooth connection (HD 350BT) and the More Devices connection you mention (LE-HD 350BT) that is part of a related driver. I unpaired the LE-HD connection and kept the standard audio bluetooth connection (also with microphone). Now it works perfectly.
what worked for me was buying a USB Bluetooth Adapter, installing it's driver, and disabling Intel(R) Wireless Bluetooth(R), which can be found under Device Manager > Bluetooth. Oh, also, I've heard disabling automatic Windows Updates helps out, because the updates tend to fuck it up. I've had updates disabled since. just today, it started all over again. I forgot about the whole process, so i've been spending the last couple hours raging about how I fixed it last time, since its been a while. Finally, I noticed an "Unrecognized BT Device" and reconfigured that, which turned out to be the BT adapter I bought. Issue was fixed right away. Hope this helps! If you ended up paying someone to fix the issue, and it worked, would love to hear how they solved it.
Some of these tweaks are quite considerable too and the most important concerns the driver. Most of the time when a headphone company updates the engine room of a headphone it results in the driver getting bigger but the reverse is true here. The HD 660S2 ditches the old 41mm unit for a smaller driver that is 38.5mm across. This represents a significant drop in the radiating area of the new headphone. Despite this, Sennheiser claims to have doubled the sub bass output of the smaller driver resulting in more low end than there was before. Some of this will be down to a new vented magnet system and aluminium voice coil improving the response.
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