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
https://www.amazon.com/IEB6-headphone-engineered-mini-driver-exceptional/dp/B0178BC13W
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/22319 From the description: Thinksound ts01 Silver Cherry: 27% ($75 value) Thinksound ts02 Silver Cherry w/ Mic: 27% ($100 value) First Harmonic IEB6 IEM w/ Mic: 26% ($35 value) Thinksound ts01.1 Walnut: 20% ($90 value)
I agree with your points though. The "value" of an item (seems to be accurate on the Thinksound Blue Box drop) is what people want to know. If MSRP is just a number that gets outdated over time (4~5 months ago when this first dropped Amazon had them at $39.99, according to CCC), it would be nice for MD to be proactive using an up-to-date street price instead. As it stands, I don't even bother looking at the "savings" and tend to do my own research to see how good of a deal it actually is. Edit: but because I do, it doesn't bother me too much.