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popularjk6812 | Staff posted Jun 01, 2025 01:13 AM
Sennheiser Consumer Audio HD 450BT Bluetooth 5.0 Wireless Foldable Headphones (Black) $59.99 + Free Shipping
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Your basic entry sennheisser at a decent, low price. Senns rarely sell cheap new.
As for the average audio grade of the 450bt, they've got amazing headphones for $$$. Ie.don't expect any maker to sell you a $$$ Ferrari for the price of a $ Corolla.
At the under $100 range, the majority do not support LDAC for Hi-Res Audio playback of FLAC, DSD, ETC.
Standard SBC/AAC codecs on these cheaper headphones is like FM quality, so folks, don't expect such to sound Amazing. No LDAC, Apple Lossless, etc codecs = it won't matter how much money you spend because SBC/AAC is just FM quality.
These Senns have a WIRED 3.5 mm cable - use that to bypass the Bluetooth codec quality.
Also, for all headphones, use the EQ! You can often tune headphones to subjectively sound better to most ears.
Ie. Grandma might not hear high tones as well, so high frequencies might need to be eq'd higher for her. Or you love BASS, so you might want to add more low frequency EQ.
Besides the Senn app https://www.sennheiser-hearing.co...rt
You've got companies with EQs
https://www.sonarworks.
And geeks producing eq profiles
https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq
https://www.autoeq.app/
https://www.xda-developers.com/ma...q-wavelet/
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With these audio brands, most sound profiles from one brand tend to be similar to their products.
Sony focuses more on bass and "crispiness" with a sound profile that sounds like you're there on the stage with the performers.
Sennheiser focuses more on balance of the sound and distinction/separation, specifically in the mid and high end ranges.
I prefer sonys because their build quality is also usually better with more metal pieces in the hinges, clasps which makes it more resilient in everyday use - theres more metal pieces in the newest XM6 as well. All the sennheisers I've owned have way too much plastic and not the high quality ones as Sonys - that's not to say that their plastic isn't high quality, but just not as high of a quality as Sony's. Also, one really annoying thing is that their clasps are for oval-shaped heads so if you have a more circular or blocky head the headphones are going to be tight and even if you use a box thats the size of your head to "stretch" them out they'll STAY tight even after a year or owning and 3-4 months sitting on a freakin box for 20 hours a day - which is a "good" thing but not if your face shape isn't the right one.
If that doesn't answer your question, then ask yourself what kind of music do you usually listen to?
Classical - Sennheiser
pop music - Sony
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