Submitted by AntOk463 t3_y7uwpn in headphones
Some people may be wondering why I am making this claim, basically everyone says the DT 770 Pro are good, that's why I baught them and was disappointed by them.
My first pair of headphones were AKG Q701 that someone was selling used local, and I love them and are still my favorite headphones. I enjoy bass, it makes music fun, so a few months later I considered getting some good closed back headphones. The DT 770 Pro were the most popular model, reviewers on YouTube, people on this subreddit. And I thought they wound be perfect for me, the AKG would be my primary critical listening headphones, and these could be my easy to drive headphones with bass.
I got them and when trying them out I was disappointed. I couldn't find a good used listing so I baught them new on ebay for $150, and I only spent $100 on the AKG, so when these sounded worse than the AKG I felt some regret. The bass was nothing too extraordinary and the raw quality couldn't compare to the AKG. All the songs I tested didn't sound as good, I actually thought these might be defective because I got them as a new listing from ebay from someone selling it $15 lower than anyone else. But then I played In Da Club by 50 cent and they sounded good for the first time. So at least I knew they weren't defective. I tried other bass heavy songs but the bass didn't sound how I expected it to. I used them from time to time, primarily when I don't want to bother others. At some points I had considered to sell them to some family members, but no one wanted to spend that much. At this point I was only keeping them for their name, they have such a huge impact and are globally respected, and lots of celebrities use them.
Very recently I got Hifiman Sundaras because they were selling at like new quality in Amazon with a good discount. I was looking at these for a long time and was waiting for a good pair at a reduced price to become available. One the weekend I was comparing all 3 of them, it was mainly to compare the AKG to the Sundara but I thought to include these as well. I was listening to a few songs and when I played Low Life by future, the bass sounded amazing on the DT 770 Pro, I couldn't believe these are the headphones I didn't like. The bass felt amazing and I rad to replay the point when the bass kicks in around 30 times because how good that sounded. Yes I was comparing them to open backs, but the bass was good in general, not just when compared to them. Then I played Take me back to London by Ed Sheeran (yes he's in my top 5 British rappers). In that song the bass also sounded good, I was Also replaying the part when the bass is introduced over and over again, I was starting to like these headphones. And I realized when people said different headphones are for different types of music, there is truth to that statement.
Could this be just because I was listening to open backs right before wearing them, because I know I tried some bass heavy hip hop tracks on them before, but didn't think they were anything special. I already know some people will say it's because of burn in.
AntOk463 OP t1_iswnq3m wrote
If anyone is wondering what I think of the 3 headphones. The Sundara do behave slightly different to the AKG but I couldn't describe what, this is probably just the difference in driver types. I felt the Sundara had something extra compared to the AKG, some instruments sounded a bit louder than others, but on the AKG they sounded uniform. In a few cases this made the Sundaras better, having something extra in places can help a song, but the other times it felt like something was wrong and it isn't supposed to be like that. If I consider the AKG as a perfectly neutral baseline, the Sundara feel like they included more detail in some parts, and the DT 770 were lacking detail in some parts. On average, the Sundara sound better for a few songs, but the AKG are better in general as refrence headphones.