Massdrop is selling Sennheiser’s HD 650 again for $250, half its usual price
Last year, Massdrop — a crowd-shopping website that is known to specialize in some great headphones — released a limited run of the Sennheiser HD 6XX, a rebranded version of Sennheiser’s legendary HD 650 open-back headphones at a price that my colleague Vlad Savov describes as “less a deal and more a daylight robbery.” And now they’re back at a similar ultra-low price of $249.99. Given the usual price of $500 for a pair of HD 650s, that makes this an incredible deal on some truly excellent headphones. (Although, for the record, the $250 price tag is a bit more than last year’s $200 offer.)
The HD 6XX are virtually identical to the original HD 650s. The only changes are a “midnight blue” color, a shorter five-foot cord (instead of the…