Review-Shack takes a look at a pair of Sennheiser HD497 Headphones

I decided to test these headphones by plugging in the headphones to the sound card of my computer. I listened to many types of music ranging from instrumental music, pop music, all the way to classical music that I'm familiar with. I was very surprised by the clarity of the sound. Throughout all the different songs, I was able to arrive at immediate judgments. First of all, each song sounded different than usual. It was so clear, I was able to hear instruments in the song that I had never heard before in the song. In fact, the instruments sounded much clearer, richer, and they sounded like actual instruments. The voices were clear as usual. One thing I have to comment on is the bass. The bass in general was good. The bass in beats of the music were crisp, but there still could be more bass.

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