Sennheiser HD 800 S Reference Headphone System

hey everyone it's chrono from the headphone show today we're going to be taking a look at the hd800s which was introduced in 2016 and it's an open back dynamic driver headphone that coming in at a retail price of 16.99 it serves not really as a successor but more as a refresh on sennheiser's legendary flagship the hd800 let's check it out all right so getting right into it the hd800s like the original is still using sennheiser's 300 ohm 56 millimeter ring radiator driver but it adds a home holds resonator like absorber that seeks to ease resonances and peaks in the treble with a method that's similar to the very popular sdr hd800 mod so revisiting it in 2020 how does the hd100s stack up to its more modern competitors and is it still able to assert itself as one of the world's best headphones like the original did just over a decade ago well we'll talk about its performance in just a min