u/itsokjanet

Years of s2e and then px7 S3. When I sold and bought my S3, I didn't think it was going to be so loud and banging bass for me silenced all other details. More importantly it started to discomfort me after an hour or so; it's the over powered bass and uncontrollable treble messed things up for me. Don't get me wrong, I love bass, I love some good Radiohead bass on my ears.

Then I switched to Sennheiser HDB 630s. Finally. I'm sad. I'm sad because S2e wasn't like S3. 630 brought back the delicious balanced music. I can bang the sound or bass, but out of the box both bass and treble are strong at right places, not animals I try to leash by a not-so-flexible EQ. It's the music with all instruments and frequencies, not only bloated bass and treble of S3 no matter what EQ I tried. I was listening to Little by Little (live) on HDBs, and whoever says HDBs have no bass must have a hearing problem. I had to turn off the bass boost.

I know many of you asked before. And I thought I would share my experience. I'm not an audiophile. But one doesn't have to be an audiophile to appreciate the balanced music and vocals. If you are in between HDB 630 and s3, If you are not a banging bass head, give 630s a chance. Or don't ever leave your S2e for S3. Ever. In neutral parametric EQ mode (out of the box), 630 sounds amazing with details and strong but right amount of bass. It's relieving to know I don't have to spend countless time on EQ to fix the sound, I can now play with parametric EQ just to experiment and have fun!

Also, the parametric EQ and the endless configurations in Sennheiser reminded me how poor Bowers and Wilkins treating the customization side of the things.

Anyways, I'm a fan of BW design language and s2e. But S3 wasted my time (my time, I know music taste is subjective). I bow in front of HDB630s, and I really hope BW comes back with a real music in next iteration.

In case you ask, to me ANC is very similar between these three headphones. One thing that sucks about 630 is the touch controls. Just stupid.

First time a soundcore user after a long experience with airpods and airbuds. I've been searching for the perfect microphone and call quality for years. I think I finally found my answer in liberty 5 pro. It's been unbelievably decent in calls. For instance, the other end wouldn't even tell I was just walking by the road blasting machine. Or in several situations there is ambient noise including other conversations just near me, and the receiving end again wouldn't notice anything. Not only they wouldn't notice those noises, they said there was no change in my voice tone either, indicating the liberty is suppressing the noise smoothly.

Good job soundcore. Really good job.