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
I also want to mention that I've have used the bluetooth feature extensively. Switching the input between my PC's aux port and my iphone6's bluetooth repeatedly over the same songs playing simultaneously from both sources. As expected there was a noticeable amount of compression going on. If you aren't paying much attention to begin with the audio compression is negligible. I also used YU5's bluetooth to watch several episodes of House of Cards on my iphone6 and sadly there were a few times where the audio did cut out with the iphone6 situated only several feet from the speakers themselves with no physical obstructions in between. I'm not sure if its a buffering issue but for the most part it worked.
Its a solid pair of bookshelf speakers with its strengths and its weaknesses. For most of us I'm pretty sure this going to be a pretty satisfying buy at the current price range but definitely nowhere near worth the msrp. I'm glad I got em and I hope you guys do too. Let me know what you guys think when you guys get yours. Thanks for reading.