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VashDragon
94
Jan 23, 2021
Just.... So i bought my pair from Linsoul. At the time for the holidays they actually had it a bit cheaper. I got the copper pair. And well these are just... so bad. Ive gone through this discussion and read some of the reviews and different experiences people have had. Im not sure if I just have a bad pair, or if their QA just doesnt care. Im not going to return them for various reasons ill get into, but be prepared here for my wall of text on these headphones. First, the Sum of its parts. This headphone feels like someone went on newegg and built you a barebones PC where the only thing thats good in it is the oversized graphics card, and everything else is just make due crap. But, he did get you an amazing keyboard and mouse to go with it. Thats sort of what these feel like. The headband almost feels like an afterthought. Its not even shaped right. With the metal rods that hold the cups in place are not angled properly at all. You will have to spend the first hour of using these headphones, bending that headband into shape to actually get them to fit. And its really just a thing of spring steel, and not even good quality at that. So they wrapped it in an after market headband cushion you would buy off amazon, and called it a day. You can see in the pictures ive attached how ive had to flatten the headband and sharply angle the ends so the rods point to properly press the cups to the side of my head.
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Cups are heavy but a nice chunk of metal. The metal rod that holds the cups to the headband are held in with some alan headed screws. The rods on mine were very loose and caused the cups to kind of flop around more than they should have. Pads are ok once you have a fit down. However, i almost instantly started swapping the pads to try and balance the sound better. They are thankfully easily removable. But be careful what pads you use. In the pictures ill be posted ill be using some Dekoni Velour pads. I also had to add some Dekoni Nuggets that i had used for other projects to help make them comfortable which you will see in the pictures. (The use of Velcro is due to how they were repurposed.) To be honest the nicest thing about these headphones is the cable it comes with. Its honestly one of the best cables I own. It comes with an ok after market case which will be better repurposed for other headphones.
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But a lot of people have talked about the build quality, what about the sound? Well thats where these headphones kind of do a faceplant into the dirt. This is where i really questioned myself with some of the reviews and discussion i was seeing. I am possibly thinking i have a bad pair, but im not going to go through the effort of sending them back in to verify. Other reviewers in Linsoul's site match how i feel, so it might just be personal bias, or possibly manufacturing differences. They still work its just... The Bass. All of the Bass all of the time. And im a big Bass head and i love head rattling bass. The problem is the bass is so strong that it muddies up everything else. As cliche as that sounds. Ive never had a pair of headphones that actually do it this bad though. You mostly hear it in the midrange, with male and female vocals, it sounds like they are singing into a block of foam on some songs. This is where the fit and the pads come in clutch. The more relaxed the fit, and more open the pads, the more subdued the bass becomes and it clears up the mids a little. If you ever put some closed pads on these be ready to regret it. And honestly, the less these fit and more they float away from your ear, the better they sound. The gigantic driver does a good job of pumping out the audio.
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Now, if you do put some closed pads on these be careful. Ive actually found that adjusting and changing the pressure on the cups will cause the driver to cut out for a moment, like its very susceptible to pressure changes and has to normalize the pressure again. Turn up the volume to loud and id be scared of what it does to my ear drums. Now thankfully, with a little bit of ear burn in, i can get used to these headphones. But any time i compare them to my 6XX or any of my other cleaner headphones, these just sound muddy. But man the bass. Bass for Days. Head rattling bass. Pop in a Bassy techno track and these are amazing. The highs are thankfully seperated enough that they dont suffer to badly. They are rolled off and not super detailed, but its there. They are also open. Very open in fact. The sound is spacious even. Ive never had a pair of headphones that were as open as these also have bass as strong as these. Which goes into my thoughts on using open pads and a relaxed fit. You want that spacious sound. However, honestly if all you want a pair of cheap bassy headphones, get the Monoprice Retros. They are cheaper and cleaner and those also have all the bass. They are just closed. Buy these for the novelty, for being the most open bassy headphones ive heard, and for the headphone cable it comes with. But be sure to check other reviews because im questioning if i truly got the same headphones some of these other people got. I could see these becoming a modders dream, i bet with the right tuning and some customizations they can be great. I wouldnt mind seeing the Blon-BL30 Argons. (Edited to fix some typos and clear up some points.)
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Camride
18
Jan 25, 2021
VashDragonPretty much my experience exactly, except I ordered mine from AliExpress (which took forever) as I've had issues with Linsoul in the past so I don't order from them anymore if possible. I think these have potential, but they're probably the shoddiest made headphones I've ever used. And the worst part is it didn't have to be that way, the cups and drivers are actually fairly good (once tuned with better pads) and they seem to have some good potential. Mine had several QC issues (parts not screwed in all the way, internal nuts that had broken free of their tiny dot of glue holding them in place, not to mention the awfulness that is the headband) but the materials themselves are not bad for the most part. I had to completely disassemble mine, secure all the nuts in place with epoxy, replace one stripped out screw and bend the absolute crap out of the headband to get any kind of seal. With all that and some time burned in they weren't bad. Not great, but not bad. Personally I'm going to get a HiFiMan HE-560 headband to replace the original headband with, then play with pads and dampening. I think with a good headband and some better suited pads these could actually sound pretty good. But straight out of the box this is by far my worst new headphone experience. Anyone involved in putting these headphones together should be embarrassed of this mess.
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