Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
If you don't want to mod them, get them and buy one of the Fiio amps and be happy. Planar bass for less than <$200 is a dream. These have MUCH better bass than stock T50RP Mk.II and much better than anything closed-back <$200 I have heard.
If you do plan to mod them, I may post a mod guide some time soon. They require much less effort than stock T50RP and will sound very good already without you spending 300 hours trying out different kinds of foam in them. The damping is already about 80-90% optimal, which is far more than I can say for some T50RP mods that I have heard, and I don't wanna brag but I have seriously heard a lot over the years...
Comfort-wise, I wear glasses, I have big head, I am in LA in a room that's "air-conditioned" by a fan. I haven't had any problem with them for the past 2 weeks... at 3-4 hours a day. The pads alone are worth more than $50, guys. They use some really premium material, and it shows. The Brainwavz hybrid pads have nothing on this, and I think the only pads that beat them are Sennheiser Orpheus pads for the HE60 and HE90! (yeah, I actually do have a collection of ear pads to boast about!)
Sorry if the above sounds a bit crazy! I'm just too excited! This one marks a milestone! It's raised the bar for a baseline T50RP mod. I think all T50RP mods moving forward should sound at least this good, or use this as the base for further exploration.
Massdrop definitely ain't getting this review pair back! I'm sending back to them a stock T50RP Mk.II cuz it costs the same anyway! Hahahahaha!!
It comes up every once in awhile on Massdrop, but seeing as how long the wait for this headphone is, it'll probably come before the we get any announcement of shipping for these headphones.
Here's Zeo's review of this and other portable dac/amps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve2HfON4330
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/firestone-fireye-hdb