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Sony MDR-DS6000 Headphones Review - Intro

By Mark Brezinski
Published on April 30, 2008
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Intro	Tour & Design
Performance	In Use
Value & Comparisons	Conclusion
Ratings & Specs

The Sony MDR-DS6000 headphones are a set of wireless headphones with digital surround sound. They also offer compression (so you don't get deafened when the loud bits come on) and music and cinema modes that tweak the sound. This base station requires a wall socket, which means you won't be able to take the DS6000s on a road trip, but the headphones come with a rechargeable battery; all you have to do is place them on the base station and they charge up. We found that the battery lasted about 7 hours and 20 minutes.

Though the DS6000 certainly has some interesting features, it falls short in terms of sound quality, it had small issues with distortion across the frequency spectrum. Also, while it did well emphasizing bassy and lower-midrange tones, higher frequencies are a bit lost. And these headphones weren't particularly comfortable.

The Sony MDR-DS6000 headphones are priced at $399.99 from Sony.

Section	The Good	The Bad
Tour & Design	These headphones are well designed and look sharp.	The base station is a bit cumbersome.
Performance	These headphones control leakage well, so your music will be kept private	We saw some distortion and a weak frequency response at the high end.
In Use	Wireless connectivity and digital surround sound.	These headphones are really limited to in-home use by their large base station and dependence on external power.
Value & Comparisons	The extra features (such as surround sound support) are interesting.	The extra features don't make up for the lack of audio quality enough to justify the price.

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