My hearing experience (1)

In this whole blog, I speak about MY OWN EXPERIENCE, and you can feel differently, so the best advise that can be given to someone interested in buying the Sennheiser HD800 headphones, is to try and hear it for yourself BEFORE buying. Those headphones are really special and it may or may not suit your tastes.
I find them perfect with some instrumental music, with real instruments (but I'm not saying they're not great with other types of music such as electronic or commercial music). But remember that to sound amazing, they need music perfectly recorded, or you will hear every single defect... That's the trade-off of those cans... They present the music clearly as it is recorded, and don't add nor substract any information.
It's amazing with holographic image of the instruments and vocals when the recording is great, but not so good with not so well recorded cds.
First, what is the most striking, is the huge width of the soundstage.
On some cds, we can truly have a sense of deepness of the stage which translates in a perfect localization of each instrument and vocal. But most important for me is that the hd800 present the music as we were in front of a stage. Sometimes we can have the impression that the music is a little distant, but it always seems more realistic to me than hearing the music "inside my head" as it was the case with my other headphone, the Sennheiser hd580, which I still find very good. (but not in the same league as the HD800).

I will later comment my experience with some cds of my own collection.