Not exactly confidence inspiring.

 

See this picture:

 

 

From page 3 of this article: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237727/How_big_is_the_sound_of_music_?taxonomyId=19&pageNumber=1

 

 

whoops

Eh, frontwards, backwards, what's the big deal...

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of HDtracks or the HD800.

Maybe to conteract the effect of the reversed ALO cable wiring

Is now the right time to mention wearing them over his hair? 

Is now the right time to mention wearing them over his hair? 

 

That's a one-off filter element, duh.

Custom ear-hair-pads!  [shudders a bit]

When JP and I went to CES for the HD800 release, I had a great pic of him blissing out with the cans on backwards.  I promised not to post it but that was more understandable because they were brand new and unknown to anybody.  And besides, JP didn't wear them over his hair. 

Tyll's got a pair, right? I wonder how they measure backwards.

I'm not sure it makes a big difference, as long as the driver is positioned in the same place it would be if he was wearing them frontwards.  The angle might be a little different (yes, acknowledging the housing too), but it's not like these are Stax Sigmas or anything.

When JP and I went to CES for the HD800 release, I had a great pic of him blissing out with the cans on backwards. 

 

Doesn't that just mean that New Guy was wearing them, not JP?

Nope, it does make a difference like the Sigmas.  From Tyll's review:

 

"With normal speaker listening, the wavefront is hitting the side of your head and ears at an angle. To mimic this geometry, Sennheiser mounts the HD 800 drivers slightly forward of your ears, and slightly angled back towards them. The larger diameter and angled geometry of the HD 800 driver produces a wavefront that arrives at the ears in a more natural way than with traditional headphones and allows more of the normal reflections at the outer ear to occur, which allows the brain to understand and localize the sound it's hearing significantly better. The result is significantly improved imaging."

 

 

 

Doesn't that just mean that New Guy was wearing them, not JP?

 

So true!  I was the one who screwed up because I took the pic from the wrong side!

Edited March 21, 201313 yr by Voltron

Maybe he's used to sitting with his back to the orchestra.

 

KIDDING.

Maybe he knows something anaxilus and purrin don't.