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Mr.Ting
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Dec 3, 2015
I have seen some of you guys said that the high price headphone is not going to work on Massdrop because not too many people are going to buy. I agree with that point. However, to speak of headphones. There are lots of over ear have happened on Massdrop or are still active drops. These are all around 500 dollar. I am not try to say that money is the key factor that determine the performance of a headphone, but if it doesn't affect any audio quality, why they ever exist? Just because ALL of the buyers are simply rich and stupid? All of them just want to buy some expensive gear that they might not even get a chance to show off? You guys are all audiophiles and you should know that there are not too many people out there who very care about sound quality. At least not as many as the number of people who care about watching Blu-Ray instead of VHS. That's why people still listening to lossy streaming. What I am trying to say is that we already have headphones in the range from budget price to mid-range. We should have some Hi-End to make some different. If you just buy many different headphones around 500 bucks, they are not going to sound obviously different, because the marketing targets of them are similar and the price of their design and assembling are similar. This is like you switch back and forth between Spotify and Apple Music, they are both lossy and you will not get huge different from that. Massdrop may be trying to become another retail. In that way, this platform will eventually become another small Amazon, but it will not beat Amazon anyway (in my lifetime at least). Therefore, for the idea of pursuing high quality audio, please don't say that the Hi-End drop is meaningless. What we want is to improve the sound quality AND save money, not just buying some random things that seem cheaper than the MSRP been told. Don't let the price get in the way of your original goal. Again, having many same price range headphones don't make sense. You'd better save all the money spent on them and buy one Hi-End gear, or spend money on over-all optimization. If all you just want to save money and want to buy stuff that you might don't really need or similar to what you already have, you don't really need Massdrop, because you might find better deal somewhere. The attached snapshot is the HD650 I bought from Amazon with pretty good deal (my opinion).THe Audeze has happened before and I think HD800 and other Hi-End gears also could happen. Besides, please voting base not only on your interest but also on the money you have.
American
2
Aug 8, 2016
Mr.Tingive listened to a lot of headphones, each of them had something i disliked, even in the high end, but the HD800 were the perfection, i would however do the 10Hz mod on them to turn them into HD800S, because the 10Hz spike on your ear drum is like a cat claw slashing your face slowly, and im in my early 20's and can hear it all too well, older ppl 30+ wont hear it at all
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