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
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They only have about 3 hours on them. And while I own a McIntosh MHA100 DAC/amp, that's at my other address. So far I've only driven these HP with redbook FLAC streams fed to my FiiO E17 over coax spdif; so the E17 is doing the heavy lifting. This my only HP driven by that marvel of a portable dac/amp that I don't need to apply any treble or bass boost to to make the music sizzle. Running only 6db gain with volume at atound 50% (30), and these super low impedance HP sound fantastic.
Next drop, buy with confidence. They are great.
Edit. Stayed up to near 4am listening to my favorites used for evaluating HP. How'd IT DO? Its nearly 4am...! I'd never do that if there was even the tiniest hint of suck. ;)