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needhelp
331
Jan 4, 2016
Whoever complained about the monoprice adapter are pure troll. They have solid connection and doesnt have any channel imbalance when you touch it. Trolls.
lvince95
248
Jan 4, 2016
needhelpTake their comments with a grain of salt. These people bash the O2/ODAC quite often on HeadFi/SBAF when the O2/ODAC is far from trash. These select people will usually relegate something to the dumpster when it's cheap. They are not trolls, but just extremely proud of their gear consisting thousands of $$$ and consider cheap adapters/cables as trash and not worthy of their system when they have their expensive adapters and custom cables costing serious $$$. Once you reach a certain point, diminishing returns are huge and improvements usually only marginal. But they would take these marginal improvements to dumpster the budget options that punch above their price point.
Only some though; I don't think many are like this. But extremists exist everywhere of course, and educated filtering of opinions/impressions is a must nowadays.
EDIT: I am NOT saying the Monoprice adapter works well guys, I'm just saying it's generally the case whn cheaper stuff gets flak and you shouldn't be basing your opinion on just one guy.
sghound
166
Jan 4, 2016
lvince95u know a product has truly arrived when there are haters & trolls. they just can't take it when a cheaper but better product pwns TOTL stuff. period.
BlueScar
10
Jan 4, 2016
needhelpMine does not have a solid connection when moving the cable around a bit.
amoeba1126
460
Jan 4, 2016
needhelpJust because you have not had any issues does not discount the people who are having issues. Personally I had issues with the adapter and my FiiO X3 where there is channel imbalance when the adapter connection is barely jostled. Either way, it is a bulky adapter that provides a lot of unneeded and potentially dangerous stress to headphone jacks, especially on portable devices. Personally, I discourage anyone from using it and using something that has a cable between the 2 connectors, preferably with the 3.5mm connector being at a right angle. This has nothing to do with cost or trolling, but rather safety for 3.5mm jack of portable devices and better ease of use.
krixus
39
Jan 4, 2016
needhelpThe provided adapter will not stay connected to my macbook pro or FiiO e10k, it pops right out with the slightest movement.
krixus
39
Jan 4, 2016
lvince95What do you mean "these people"? Which people?
Mkoll
14
Jan 5, 2016
amoeba1126The Monoprice adapter doesn't work for me as well. When the TH-X00 is connected by it to a Fiio X1, the slightest jostle causes the playback to pause. A Sennheiser 1/4"-1/8" adapter I have on hand fixes the problem—got it from Amazon awhile back.
lvince95
248
Jan 5, 2016
krixusThere are 2 types of extremists:
1. Those who say that cheap things are all you need, and amps/dacs don't make a difference, O2+ODAC is all you will ever need (which is actually true depending on the cans owned), etc.
2. Those who say cables/adapters make a difference (of course if it's bad it will degrade sound quality, but they think expensive vs good cables make a lot of difference), DAC upgrades would yield a night and day difference (untrue, people have trouble differentiating ODAC and Bifrost MB when blind testing after VOLUME MATCHING *important), and that you need good, expensive dac/amps to power a 9 ohm Shure SE846, etc.
I'm referring to the latter in this case. I'm just saying, take comments with a grain of salt and get more opinions before making a conclusion, because a lot of opinions/impressions are gonna be extremely subjective and biased.
TL;DR: I don't think you should conclude that the Monoprice adapter is trash just because of one guy's opinion (that was earlier on, more impressions are coming in now).
amoeba1126
460
Jan 5, 2016
lvince95People are not calling the included Monoprice adapter trash due to some twisted sense of elitism. They are calling it trash, because that is precisely what it is. It is long and bulky, which even when working properly, places unnecessary strain on the connection port for something as thin as a 3.5mm jack. Even if it is working perfectly, you run the risk of damaging the port if something bumps into the adapter hard enough. Also, due to how long and bulky it is, it can easily pop out a bit from a lot of connection ports, which causes channel imbalance. Again, not calling it trash because it is cheap; we are calling it trash because it actually is.
krixus
39
Jan 5, 2016
lvince95You're making a bunch of generalizations when the fact of the matter is the adapter that was provided is physically incapable of doing its job. It's not about mythical sound quality. 1 tiny nudge and I lose 1 channel. Another and I've lost both completely. It straight up doesn't work.
zepthompson
9
Jan 6, 2016
krixusI emailed MD about the poor adaptor. The response I got:
Thank you for getting back to me! It is likely that you received a defective adapter, as no other member has reported having this issue. I can go ahead and send a replacement from our warehouse. Once your replacement adapter ships, you should receive a confirmation email with tracking.
If for some reason you continue having issues with the replacement adapter, please contact us and we can determine how to proceed moving forward.
Warmly, Hillary
Truth be told, no one wants a placement maybe.
amoeba1126
460
Jan 6, 2016
zepthompsonMost people buying these headphones probably already have a better one (not a high standard) or purchased a better one.
dwane5
292
Jan 7, 2016
krixus:::pointing::: them
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