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Sennheiser HD 800 S
HiFiMan Edition XS
The Sennheiser HD 800 S and the HiFiMan Edition XS are both excellent audiophile headphones with slight differences. The Sennheiser headphones have dynamic transducers and are more comfortable and well-built. They also produce audio that sounds more like angled reference speakers in a room. In comparison, the HiFiMan are planar magnetic headphones. Thanks to their design, they can reproduce bass more accurately, which is great for fans of thumpy EDM kicks. They also deliver audio even more consistently than the Sennheiser.
Sennheiser HD 800 S
HiFiMan Edition XS
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