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Chromfell
30
Nov 15, 2022
Activities:Casual Listening
Music Genres:Electronic, Hip-hop, Jazz, Pop, R&B, Rock
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GREAT closed back sound for $80 - build bad for $150.
Certainly by far the best all-around, cushy over-ear headphones for $80 I've ever heard. Remarkable sound. Now, I'm far from the first to say this, but it's quite possible you'll have to further bend the headband near the hinges to actually get decent clamp on your head...

!!! I would STRONGLY advise against taking the cups and hinge assembly apart !!! Find a way to bend the metal straps without doing that (like extending the headband all the way and using two pliers to bend the bottom end of the metal strap on each side, worked quite well for me - I don't know why I didn't try that first...) If you do end up taking it apart for whatever reason, here are my experiences: The cups and screw holes are entirely plastic, even just screwing them back in made me concerned for the windings on the cup end - if there even are any. The screws that fix the hinge to the headband as pretty tight from the factory and one of mine just turned to dust when I tried unscrewing it. Luckily I had a fitting screw and nut lying around, so now the left hinge looks a little DIY... whatever I guess lol? Also, be very careful when taking the pads off, they are stuck into the cups with small, skinny one-way-ish plastic hooks that will break off when too much stress is applied to them. The best approach is to push the pad base inwards all around to pop the hooks out one-by-one. If you break one, it'll probably fall into the cup so you'll have to screw it open. There's six per pad so losing one isn't a huge deal, though unless you wanna eventually superglue your pads back on you're better off being extra careful. Oh yeah, also one of the screws holding the inner cup and driver to the outer cup is missing. But again, it's "just" one out of six tiny screws. So it's OK I guess? None of the smaller screws are magnetic and they don't seem to ever bite right... have fun reassembling if you are insane enough to take them apart :---) For a $150 pair of headphones these things would be A BIT OF A HASSLE. A LITTLE SILLY. PROBLEMATIC EVEN. PERHAPS A DEAL BREAKER (or headphone breaker) Honestly even just the ill-fitting headband would keep me from buying it at that price. And it did, until they went on sale... and at $80 I will restrain myself from being too seriously offended at the shortcomings any further :P sound is really awesome at this price! Oh yeah, and they seem pretty easy to drive. Even just my phone alone runs them great. So if you don't mind how surprisingly big they are, take em outside or on the road. I think they look quite neat and understated though I might spray them in some chrome mirror coat... just cuz
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Recommends this product? Yes
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