beardedtomato971 OP t1_j27adnm wrote on December 30, 2022 at 3:55 AM

After twiddling my thumbs for a few months and my old headphones annoying me, I decided to pull the trigger on a new audio set-up for my PC. What helped with the decision is comparing my gaming headset to families HD598/HD800 and realising how much I was missing out on. Old headset was a sennheiser gsp300. Initial clamping force of the hd6xx gave headaches, but after a few days they have loosened up nicely, very comfortable for hours long sessions.

cr0ft t1_j28ceqj wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:05 AM

Very nice, congrats. I have the HD58X and a FiiO amp but it sounds brilliant as well. Have some family visiting and time off so I want to stay up late; been using my setup a lot at night and it just never gets old.

In case you want to tailor the sound a little, there's always Equalizer APO (amazing bit of software) and the Peace frontend makes it easier to use, https://sourceforge.net/projects/peace-equalizer-apo-extension/ - you can save and import profiles and such, and more easily dial in frequencies. I like to basically just boost the 10-80 Hz ranges to give the headphones that little extra body to the sound.

This is a system-wide equalizer so it affects everything you play and is kind of set it and forget it.

You can also have a separate profile for speakers, and swap between the presets with hotkeys.

beardedtomato971 OP t1_j28crzm wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:09 AM

Thank you very much, currently I have an eq set up in roon, and I was looking for something that would work system wide so I'll definitely give that a shot. I'm going through and trying to find music to listen to now, it's interesting my music taste has broadened a bit with the new headphones.