finally someone said it lol

i love $b and bones but admittedly their music is nothing stellar in terms of mixing and mastering. headphones like the hd600 will blow you away when listening to rock, jazz or something that involves real instruments. they’ll blow you away when listening to IDM and ambient, music that involves a ton of little details. otherwise, they’ll reveal all the glaring flaws with a song’s mixing, and take all the fun out of them.

which is precisely why i don’t like them.

i respect them highly, but i would personally never own one. i can’t stand when a headphone just won’t sound good with 50% of my music taste. keep in mind that music has evolved a lot since the hd600s came out in 1997. a lot of today’s music is bass-heavy or mixed badly, often intentionally, and that just won’t translate well to an hd600.

i would recommend going for a more modern open-back reference headphone, as those are a lot more musical and can do hip-hop perfectly. the audio-technica r70x come to mind. they have great bass and warmth, yet retain the great clarity, detail, soundstage and imaging that you come to expect from professional headphones.

no one answered your second questikn so here i am

a lot of audiophiles would not recommend the 599 because of its “muddiness”, where the bass obscures or distorts the rest of the audio’s detail. the clarity, soundstage, highs and mids are not very good compared to other headphones in the price range

but based on what you said it seems like the 599 would be a good fit for you. you seem like you love bass over everything else, and the 599s would absolutely satisfy you in that regard. their detail and clarity is still really great, good enough that they’d blow someone away who hasn’t heard anything better than skullcandy. i think they’d be more than worth your money

it’s always cool to see someone just getting into high quality headphones. whichever headphones you go with i hope you enjoy them !