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Apr 13, 2014

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Audio Technica: Still talking with them about listing the M50x. The most immediate issue holding back a listing is the backorder status on this item. Given it's popularity, retailers are ordering as many as they can and the stock is going to retailers with seniority. We'll list these as soon as AT has any for us to buy, but that won't be any time in the near future.
HD598: Spoke with Sennheiser on Wednesday of last week. They're thinking about the prospect of listing on Massdrop but the headphone they mentioned during our call was the momentum line. Odds of a HD598 drop are VERY low, if you're set on it, amazon has some pretty good prices from time to time.
As far as everything else in the poll, we're working on sourcing all of it as quickly as we can.
That said, team, can we vote on some more unique headphones? I understand that the M50, M50x, and HD598 (gaben bless them) are favorites on /r/headphones, but perhaps we can collectively descend into the internet and return with some headphones of comparable performance and lesser known manufacturers?
Massdrop lets audiophiles make audiophile polls, vote on audiophile products, so someone who knows nothing about headphones can see a listing and say "Wow, I don't know much about headphones but it's got votes from 600 audiophiles! I trust the Massdrop community so I'll join this now". As our audiophile members, you're helping to introduce and explain the audiophile world to thousands of new people every week. Let's try to give them as broad of an introduction as possible.
Fischer Audio is a company worth looking into, King Sound just released some high-end electrostatics, Soundmagic has a couple great on-ears, and Rock-It Sounds has some very well reviewed cans. There are so many headphones worth exploring and if you bring more manufacturers into the mix, there's a much higher chance of you getting what you vote for.

Apr 13, 2014

Dragonzeanse

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May 3, 2014

WillWill, I love you. You've taken the words right out of my mouth. I really think people should give other headphones a shot. M50(x)s and HD 598s are great headphones, but so are Onkyos, Beyerdynamic DT-1350s, Shure SRH840s, Sennheiser Momentums, and NAD VISO HP50s.

May 3, 2014