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Best praise vs top criticism for Sennheiser HD 599
“I fell into this rabbithole of trying to fin THE headphone for me. I am an obsessive person so I watched TONS of youtube. Read rreddit and many other places. I always found something, some comment somewhere that made me negative or hesitant. After a long while I just came to the conclusion that every darn headphone had something that someone just loathed. Even the really expensive ones. So. Finally I leaned towards Sennheiser and here in Sweden there was a pretty good sale on the 599se, so I quite spontaniously bought it. At first I was actually really impressed but kept roaming around in headphone forums and FOMO grabbed me. Luckily it all settled down and I became pleanstly at ease with the choice, started just using them and didn't ultrafocuse on stuff I had read. I know that no matter which headphone I had bought, I would obsess in the beginning. The 599se was cheap so I think that helped just relaxing a bit. Now, like 2 years later, I 'm very happy with them. Except they create crazy headphone hair! 😅”
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