Sennheiser HD 206 Stereo Headphone

I was pleasantly surprised to hear decent sound quality for a product that has been discontinued by Sennheiser. It's nice to have a nice lightweight headset without the pain in the rear coily cord that comes with the Sennheiser HD 280 pro headphones. The sound quality is very good especially considering the fact that these are made with thin wires. I have purchased Pro Audio headphones for 4x the cost as these that had extremely poor sound quality compared to these. I use them for mixing my sound on my MPC one, and really, they are much more comfortable than my HD280 pro model, and like I stated before, with a nice long cord that isnt coiled to get tangled up in everything. I actually prefer these to my HD280 pro model due to the good sound, comfort, and longer cable. It's too bad Sennheiser discontinued these, but maybe they'll come out with a pair with a more sturdy cord. That is the only downside is the thin cord. I see future problems with the durability of the cord on these, but we'll just have to wait and see. Sennheiser has always made quality products. These are not noise cancelling, but they are stil good enough to use for professional mixdowns on my MPC One.

These are comfortable and the sound quality is great. Cord is long which is both a blessing and a curse. I no longer feel tethered 3 feet from my laptop, but it's so long I keep most of it wrapped up so it won't catch on anything. Foam earpieces can make your ears feel hot, but you can buy covers to stop this. These are not noise cancelling so you'll get bleed through room ambience. Otherwise about the best you can get for the money.

Oh boy are these cheap, and that is not a bad thing. I've been using these a couple of weeks now and it's incredible. Now I'm sure what I'm getting out of this is what people call the "v sound" with boosted top and bottom end, but it's some of the most incredible sound I've gotten from a pair of headphones. I'm not an audiophile. As long as what I'm using isn't bluetooth I'm generally fine, but I'm still going to love a real good sound. I've had headphones more expensive than these that both fit and sounded worse than these. The main things I'm worried about are the wire and how strong the headphones themselves are. I'll have to be careful with the wire for sure, but these aren't going anywhere that anything could possible snap them. Noise cancelling? Nah man. They don't let everything in by any means, they're not open back. It's not letting everything in and it's not letting everything out. But I hear more things through these than I have in like the last 5 pairs of headphones I've owned. This isn't a bad thing. I would often be hard to get the attention of because of it. I can hear what's going on around me but it's not going to ruin my experience with anything. You can do a lot worse than these for 30 bucks. You can do worse than these for 100 bucks. These are cheap headphones that don't sound like garbage and fit *comfortably* for cheap. Yeah I can safely recommend these.

Great sound for the price! Plugged these in and the levels are great with little to no distortion.

I had a pair of HD 206 headphones for several years... great value. Great sound quality and durability for home use. Going on this overall experience, when the ear piece broke on my old HD 206's I did a quick internet search and found HD 206's being sold here on Amazon. They were more expensive than what a competitor's site was charging but I have trusted Amazon and Sennheiser for many years. So I ordered a replacement pair. They shipped and they appeared just like my old HD 206's (both the packaging and the product), however the sound quality was VASTLY inferior right out of the box. In short, 75% of the clarity of my old pair not present in this new pair. The sound was so muddled that I felt like I had bought some strange "headphone" product from a highway rest station. I began to wonder what in the heck happened. I checked my order a little closer and it indicated that I had somehow bought from a third party, through a so-called Amazon "marketplace". I had a bad experience once before with a large, well-known competitor who had also started one of these suspect "marketplaces". You are hardly aware that you are ordering through a so-called "marketplace" and I believe that is by design... to dupe the customer into buying an inferior product. A little more internet digging found that apparently 3rd parties can buy products (like headphones) in bulk from a well known company (like Sennheiser) - products that will therefore bear the name of a well known and trusted company (like Sennheiser) - products that were ostensibly manufactured by a well known company (like Sennheiser) for the purpose of selling them on retail sites like Amazon. Furthermore information on the internet describing this practice is quick to claim that this is a "legal" scheme... and we all know what "legal" refers to within this context. I also recently realized Sennheiser no longer manufactures the HD 206. So shall we make an educated guess as to what happened here? Did Sennheiser manufactured tens of thousands of inferior "HD 206" models knowing this line of headphones would soon be discontinued and then sold masses of these inferior products to 3rd party vendors who got to use the Sennheiser name to sell said inferior products... and Amazon was their co-conspirator in online retail to get this little racket setup? I will not buy Sennheiser products ever again, nor will I do business with Amazon ever again. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.

I bought these to replace some Sennheiser HD 202 headphones that finally wore out. I was so sad because the 202 headphones were such great quality and were highly affordable. Apparently, they do not sell them anymore. These cost almost twice as much. They are very comfortable and the sound quality is good, but the right headphone doesn't work properly. It sounds muffled for a large range of sounds. The left side sounds great. If the right side was not muffled, I would give them 5 stars as the sound quality in the left side is quite good for the price range. I assume there was a quality control issue. They still sound okay for most stuff, but they don't work at all when watching videos with binaural audio.

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of sound from these headphones. Reviews had me leery of bass from them but not only is it there it's accurate, they are not Thumpers like the dude down the block who rattles your windows when he drives by( I hate Thumpers). The highs are the same, accurate and none of the Ssssibalance you usually get from modestly priced Headphones and the Vocal/Mids are just in your face, clear and hot. I should mention I use a tube headphone pre-amp for Headphones and don't need to go over half Volume to get what I want. If you're on the fence about the SENNHEISER HD 206 don't be for the price your getting a good product with a Soundscape that rivals much higher priced Headphones, Just sayin.

Good sound and not too much bass, which is one of my main complaints about many headphones. I've bought these several times now — one for guitar, one for computer, one for my wife — that's how much I like them. They fit comfortably and have a padded headband. Ear pieces don't swivel as much as DJ headphones but they do move side to side for a good fit. These go around your ears. They isolate sound pretty well to avoid disturbing others. Long cord for desktop use, not a short cord like personal headphones.