Which headphones of Drop's currently available?
I have some rewards points to burn but there's no obviously good options on Drop right now for headphones Contenders Ultrasone - maybe? I don't own any Ultrasones, so curious. Looks like garbage travel headphone which could be useful also. Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro. - Maybe? I have the DT 880 Good price point, really uncomfortable headphones but could be interesting to try the upgraded version. E-MU - strong contender but $400 is a bad price point for what it is. Which of the above would you choose and why? Nothing else on Drop is relevant to my interests, because Already own 6xx 820 800 s Ether cx Garbage / Consumer grade Meze 99 - garbage bass canons, hard pass No gaming headphones obviously Sennheiser wireless - no to wireless/bluetooth Hifiman - I have 2 of drop hifimans and they make really bad cheap shit on Drop, hard pass on HE-R7DX Aeon - I own the closed, Drop refuses to address #padgate so no reason to buy open Beyerdynamic 177x - wireless, nope Too similar 8x / 560s...
Mar 28, 2024
Down the line will also be changing out the main capacitor bank for higher capacitive rated ones... so will go from the stock 35,200uf configuration to around a 75k+uf configuration.
Was planning to go with the V4 (which has no such issues and are cheaper) but when getting ready to purchase, the V6 made it's appearance and decided to take a chance with them instead. I truthfully am a little uneasy with going with the Burson V6, it's brand new and somewhat similar to the V5 in form factor. But I am also willing to take a chance on them being my H10s will have a lot more cooling than stock and there is enough of a change from the V5 with the V6 that it seems they could be used in an H10. We will see in time.
I bought two H10s for a reason, one to be a standard and one to use as a testing platform - to see what kind of tailoring can be had for its sound profile. Both will get identical cooling mods, but only one will be used to try out different opamps. I will say though, stock the H10 is most excellent sounding amp, especially after it has quite a few hours run time on it.
The stock opamps are BB OPA134PA 4BW7NHB for the singles and Ti 96A35PM NE5532P for the duals.
I will be modding the second H10 to try passive cooling with it, basically just drilling the top with a strategic pattern of vent holes. Internally right now it looks the same as the one that will be actively cooled, just with the V6 Vivids: