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New ear resolution: Sanjoy Narayan on the iconic Sennheiser HD 600 headphones

Updated on: May 24, 2025, 18:04:30 IST
By Sanjoy Narayan
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PREMIUMThese humble German cans that can be bought for about $270 are the audiophile’s equivalent of a beat-up Fender guitar: a tool that melts into the art instead of stealing the spotlight.
These humble German cans that can be bought for about $270 are the audiophile’s equivalent of a beat-up Fender guitar: a tool that melts into the art instead of stealing the spotlight.
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A digital rip of Led Zeppelin’s Ten Years Gone is like a 3D soundscape. Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue sounds brand-new. This is music as it was meant to be heard.

There’s something humbling about stumbling onto greatness way after the hype train has left the station. Like binge-watching The Wire in 2024 (I did this!) and cracking open Dune with everyone else already quoting it (I’m on it!), my late discovery of the Sennheiser HD 600 headphones feels like I’ve unearthed a gem that’s been chilling in plain sight for nearly 30 years.

For years, I have been a bit of an audio wanderer. I’ve vibed with budget-friendly Chi-fi (or

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Sanjoy Narayan

Last summer, while a debate over net neutrality was on in the US, in his very funny news satire show, Last Week Tonight, the comedian John Oliver used a typically risqué example to explain what a non-neutral Internet could do to small web-based entrepreneurs and startups.

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