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
In a small bedroom on a desk they could sound "good", _in theory_, if not pushed hard, but they're just too small to really excel. The real question is whether they sound good enough to fork over US$320+, and I think the odds are stacked against them, design-wise.
Also there's a note in the copy to add a subwoofer if you want bass, but there's no sub out on these, so you'd need a sub with its own crossover inputs and outputs to do so, and not all subs have those, especially the cheaper ones.
For me I'd rather spend $400 on some used, larger Genelecs (or Mackies, Adam, even KRKs...).
This is a video of the x6 which is about $1,200 I think and shows the insides which is probably similar
also as for the sub, you simply plug the speakers from the input into the output of the subwoofer and the intput connects to the source