Sennheiser at Bangsar shopping complex.
The lows and mids are nice, but not a fan of the highs at the higher frequency part.

Lol sounds like we both heard the total opposite.
I found the mids thick and lush while bass is deep and extended. Very warm sound signature, but the treble especially drum cymbals sounded paper thin.

I read a lot of people prefer the IE800 to the SE846 when comparing them both. Have you done same comparisons before you got your SE846?.

Sennheiser IE800 Earphones

Materials: Very nice materials are used. The earbud is built very well and feels like a quality product. The cables are some of the best I've ever seen or felt. Worth $1000? Not sure.

Aesthetics: Can't say the same for the looks of the thing. It looks very conventional and in the world of Shures and Westones, it looks like an up-scale earbuds. Other than that, it still looks like a cool earbud. It's just not impressive when you're comparing it to its competitors in the same price range.

Comfort: Very comfortable in that it's small and can easily be put on. However, nozzle size is absolutely necessary if you want to wear them effectively because they will NOT stay in your ear as securely as its competitors.

Noise cancellation: Great but not as good as the Shures and/or Westones.

Sound quality: Overall, this is a very safe sounding earphone. Nothing and I mean nothing stands out in the sound. Is that bad? Not necessarily. If you wanted a very well rounded and ultimately very secure sounding set of earphones, than these are for you. Besides being well-rounded, it's also bright and very clear. I would even argue that it's slightly clearer than the SE846's. But again, no range (low-mid-high) is particularly strong.

Shure SE846 Earphones

Materials: The weight gives these earphones a superior sense of quality. The materials feel very thick and very tightly bolted together. It truly feels like an expensive product.

Aesthetics: Being able to see the metal and inner workings of the earphones gives it a unique look and a better look at the quality of the materials being used within.

Comfort: To be honest, these are pretty big earphones. If you have smaller ears or ear openings, you will have difficulty putting these things on. In addition, the hard cables used to go over the ear are kind of fiddly and again, do not work all that well if you have smaller ears.

Noise cancellation: Better than the Sennheiser's. Very good. You'll probably never hear anyone or anything making a single noise.

Sound quality: I've touched on this before. The mid and low ranges are exceptional. The husky and very visceral sounding mid-range gives new life to vocals and string instruments while the low-range can deliver some surprisingly powerful bass and beats. It just barely lags behind the Sennheiser in clarity, but clarity is something you enjoy through acquired taste. Some feel like intense clarity becomes fatiguing after prolonged use. So the Shure may actually have the upper hand here.

Whats the price of the IE800 in KL?

Just bought a HD700.

Interested? 

still cant afford, saving for WA7 now, might take up 1 year

You and that poisonous HD700. Now got HD800 on sale some more. Damn son.

Haha, maybe only... but high chance i won't since i haven't sold the HD700 
Are you interested? I'll give you a sweet deal

I'm actually looking at the MrSpeakers Alpha Dogs and Audeze LCD2 (this one blame Joshua) atm. But like I said before, exams mate. Gonna take awhile before I have the dough needed for that HD700.

Then comes the WA7tp

 

How come you're selling off your universal V6 and now the HD700 and then RM4500 for the HD800 in 2 weeks?

The HD700 was on sale for some time,  it's new though but the V6 is mine used. The HD800 most likely won't be on sale unless someone is interested within these few days.

I'm more towards IEM so I don't really keep any full sized headphones.

Lol I did. One would have thought you were dropping this hobby

Or perhaps it's your pairing that not adequate. Despite owning the HD650 myself, I must say it scales incredibly well with better upstream gear (especially your amp whether its tube or solid state).

Additionally, you can consider removing the damping foam behind the driver as per below.

Source

And yes, SBAF is a big Sennheiser fan club, so its also worthwhile to see how some of them tweak the HD650.

Crafted for Perfection, version 2

Listened for the past 2 hours and gotta say it goes like this

Modded HD800 >= HD800s > Unmodded HD800

The 6K peak feels overly damped than it should than the modded HD800 which loses its sparkle in the highs. Will listen to it more over the week.

Would say its more amp friendly but still benefits alot from better amps, especially ones with high Z output impedance.
Head-Fi is more of a joke these days with people giving impressions/review without properly addressing what they are listening. Not to mention "certain" reviewers are just bad, especially those posting in the 800s thread who bought it.

So you now have both the HD800 and HD800s? Which do you like better and why?