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Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
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Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

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The ultimate acoustic experience? The natural one: where sound reaches your ears through the open air, from a source right in front of you. It’s not a difficult concept to wrap your head around. In the history of headphone design, however, it’s proven difficult to wrap it around your head. Until now. Meet the Drop + grell OAE1 Signature: a groundbreaking pair of headphones with game-changing driver geometry and an ultra-expansive soundstage.

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HoffmanMyster
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May 9, 2024
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The Drop + grell OAE1 Signature headphones are finally here, and we couldn’t be more excited! It has been a long journey to get to this point. Together with Axel, we’ve shown the headphones at a number of shows, received feedback from trusted ears such as Jude Mansila of Head-fi.org, and tweaked the tuning along the way. The OAE1 Signature are collectors items and limited to 1,000 units in total. All Signature headphones are individually measured before leaving the factory and the measurements are included inside the package. The Signature version also comes with two high quality cables, a carrying case, and as the name says—the headphones have Axel’s signature on them. The headphones come with a 2-year warranty and our 30 day return policy applies to OAE1 Signature as well. One goal with this launch was to minimize the wait time until the OAE1 Signature arrives. The headphones are in production and expected to arrive to our warehouse mid-June, and ship shortly thereafter to everyone. We look forward to getting these into your hands! Edit to add: All orders, including international, will be shipping free! If you already purchased and paid for shipping, that cost will be refunded to you automatically.
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condocondor
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May 16, 2024
Looking at one of the pictures of the headphone with Somone's hands next to the cups, it looks like an "ON-EAR" rather than an OVER-EAR design. What is the size of the opening of the ear space inside the cup pads?
condocondor
6
May 14, 2024
So, what about spare ear cushions? Will Drop offer these? How much? I would want to order an extra pair since these are limited run. Without proper pads, this headphone will not perform to specs.
alexw0w
0
May 14, 2024
condocondorThat's actually a very good question
tdkocen
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Etymotic
May 14, 2024
condocondorThere will be some replacement pads and headbands in the future so fret not. Dekoni Audio is on the case…
1-T-O-M
46
May 13, 2024
It’s been too long since I’ve made time to enjoy the plethora of cans I already own. So here I am again, considering buying yet another set of unknowns. It’s a friggin disease. 1st generation anything throws up red flags signaling a “wait for second batch before buying. “ For many reasons I want these to be winners. Staying well below the $500 mark with these makes the technology more desirable, if they deliver. I’ll likely wake early one morning before the week’s end and order them before I can get my coffee.
1-T-O-MAt it's current sales rate, I estimate this 'Signature Edition' will be sold out in the next day or two.
What material is the headband? Leather or "leather"? I don't want to be stuck with a headband that's flaking black bits everywhere in a few years with no replacement parts. Also do the earpads share any existing mount style or do we have to hope some company manufactures replacements for a supposed pool of only 1000 headphones?
EdTheNerdIt seems to be top leather and bottom velour when i watch the videos/pictures. If that's the case, it shouldn't decay because of the skin/sweat. And in one of his interviews, i believe Grell said that there will be replacement pads from Dekoni.
Quads
8
May 13, 2024
What are the dimensions of the earpad opening's diameter and depth?
QuadsEvshrug stated under his review: Circular pads. Outer diameter: 10cm / ~4 inches Inner opening: 5.5cm / ~2 and 1/4 inches
hunkichunki
132
May 12, 2024
Need more reviews!
Hifiearspeakers
1
May 11, 2024
The hd560S is already a bright headphone compared to other models in the 5XX/6XX line. These have an even greater peak between 3-4 kHz which is also in the ear gain frequency range. I don’t know how these couldn’t sound sharp/harsh. Hard pass until user reviews start coming in.
mmik
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May 15, 2024
HifiearspeakersThe 560s bothered me a bit also. I am really interested in these, but I agree. I need to see some more feedback before I jump in. I hope they get a few more pairs circulating soon. I am surprised there is only one review floating around so far for such a hyped headphone. Either the marketing team needs to get on it or there is something off.
Jmunandar
178
May 10, 2024
Ordered. Student discount + 10$ off seems like a great price.
brainwave
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May 14, 2024
JmunandarWhat are the student discount and 10$ off you've mentioned? I can see it in the description.
Robson
217
May 10, 2024
I did order one anyway to see what Axel has come up with, but a couple things are concerning in the frequency response... They seems to have a very pronounced bump from 3K to 5K, and then fall off a cliff from 5K to around 11K. I'm not a Harman curve nazi, but why he chose to tune them like this is puzzling. I hope they take to eq ok, I prefer to see the tuning to be "right" in the first place. Also, the "limited to 1000 pcs" is simply not believable. Drop has always made more units when a headphone sells well. Supposedly the AKG K7xx and Sennheiser 6xx were both "limited", but reappeared many times over. Of course the 6xx is now always available. In any case, they sound interesting, so we will all see!
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RobsonAgree with your concerns on the FR. The only possible defense of this I can think of is that the aggressively repositioned and angled drivers make the conventional response curve and pinna interaction measurements look wrong but sound okay? Time will tell on that point I suppose (though I am curious). I'm not against EQ, but agree that audio equipment tuning really should be nailed down without EQ being a necessity. As far as the "1000 pcs" goes, I interpreted that to mean that the *first* 1000pcs would be the "signature" edition - specifically including Grell's signature; but that it would continue to be available in "non-signature" edition after the fact.
shorkordeI seconded the FR graph is possible in relative to angled drivers and " appeared " extreme spike and then the " falls off a cliff " presentation, could only be relative, and I think that's part of the engineering/ philosophy behind this headphone is that individual ear/s and outer ear/s (ie flesh and bones) is going to play a part, versus a test rig. I remember a reviewer back many moons ago notice a trend when measuring dynamic driver/s and planer magnetic drivers or other high flux density + narrow air gap to the "ear" (or micphone representing the ear in the said test rig) that the later would interfering the microphone versus a "normal" driver and thus spit out a "funny looking" FR graph but IRL sounds pretty normal when wearing it by human/ flesh-and-bone. As for the "limited" aspect of 1000 pcs ... yes I was there many many moons ago, along with many many other community members, waking up in the middle of night (being in the wrong time zone) when the 6xx was initially released (it was a nov night/ morning depending on your time zone) and only to be left disappointed when the server crashed within 30 mins and the subsequent duplicated / cancelled order and reopened orders ... and the rest, they say is history.
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