Which headphones of Drop's currently avialable?
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. Beyerdyanmic 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
ok, enough of me entertaining myself... I imagine it does have at least an onboard ADC and computer in there, because of the Dolby processing and the fact that the front proudly displays “Digital Cinema Sound Processing,” twice. Also, the manual mentions digital input and 75 Ω inputs, which to me mean “Coax Input.” It’s like my Polk Audio subwoofer... it can take analog inputs, but the white “left channel” RCA is also a coax input.
I’m honestly NOT entirely convinced it has a DAC with a Coax or S/PDIF (Sony Phillips Digital InterFace, I believe) input. If it did have a coax input (and you have something with a Coax out to try with), then I guess this closet creature has nothing to lose by trying it out, an the white DVD RCA input would be my best guess. DACs are one thing that HAVE steadily been improving over the years (unless you count the tricky multibit DACs from Theta and the like, which were better than most DACs for a long time till they were ursurped by the Schiit Yggdrasil and multibit DACs from other companies like Audio GD), so even if your Sony Does have a DAC inside, getting a newer one would sound better.