Ok, despite my post office's best efforts to lose/give away my package (thankfully I have good neighbors or this would have been delivered to a complete stranger....USPS, bah!), I got my Black M220's in this morning. I used them for 10 minutes before chucking the horrible pads, very sweaty and uncomfortable despite my smaller sized ears. Thanks to the reviews on here, though, I was prepared with a cheapo set of Cosmos velour pads fresh from Amazon yesterday and they work great.
The overall fit is fine, even though they look much larger in person than any review I saw. It looks huge on my bald head, kinda like the head gear the kid wore in the Willy Wonka movie remake.....These are definitely stay at home types as I wouldn't be caught dead wearing these anywhere else, saying they are ugly is being kind....but at least they are sturdy and seem very well made. I HATE the cord they include, why oh why do headphone companies insist on using such a looooooong cord? They are just overkill IMHO. At least include a shorter one in the box....guess I'm asking too much for $49.99...or not.
As for the sound, I'm running these with my LG V30 with it's quad DAC setup, and it's more than enough to push these hard enough to get at least ok sound. For semi open backs, these really don't have much of a soundstage, my closed back ATH-M40x's have a better one. That pissed me off as the main reason I got these is for the perceived soundstage improvement that an open back headset is supposed to give you....but no, there's very little of that if at all with these. The signature, at least as of 8 hours in, is pretty upper register based, not a surprise here, but the mids were a bit muddled to my ears, not too effective at playing back my high end FLAC files. The lows were there....barely. A source that's well EQ'd would definitely do these justice. I used the aforementioned phone with Poweramp, and it allows for good sound sculpting, a good thing as these sound pretty dull without it. I seriously can't see what anyone on here sees in these, they aren't very good at anything IMHO....
These are barely worth the money asked for here, they have a limited soundstage that just doesn't work out too well for the type of headphone it's being pushed at being by Massdrop (Monitors? Seriously??) There are much, much better at a similar price or just above. Sorry I got these as now I have to pack them and hope I find someone who I can pawn it off on...sorry folks, these really aren't that good at all.
The overall fit is fine, even though they look much larger in person than any review I saw. It looks huge on my bald head, kinda like the head gear the kid wore in the Willy Wonka movie remake.....These are definitely stay at home types as I wouldn't be caught dead wearing these anywhere else, saying they are ugly is being kind....but at least they are sturdy and seem very well made. I HATE the cord they include, why oh why do headphone companies insist on using such a looooooong cord? They are just overkill IMHO. At least include a shorter one in the box....guess I'm asking too much for $49.99...or not.
As for the sound, I'm running these with my LG V30 with it's quad DAC setup, and it's more than enough to push these hard enough to get at least ok sound. For semi open backs, these really don't have much of a soundstage, my closed back ATH-M40x's have a better one. That pissed me off as the main reason I got these is for the perceived soundstage improvement that an open back headset is supposed to give you....but no, there's very little of that if at all with these. The signature, at least as of 8 hours in, is pretty upper register based, not a surprise here, but the mids were a bit muddled to my ears, not too effective at playing back my high end FLAC files. The lows were there....barely. A source that's well EQ'd would definitely do these justice. I used the aforementioned phone with Poweramp, and it allows for good sound sculpting, a good thing as these sound pretty dull without it. I seriously can't see what anyone on here sees in these, they aren't very good at anything IMHO....
These are barely worth the money asked for here, they have a limited soundstage that just doesn't work out too well for the type of headphone it's being pushed at being by Massdrop (Monitors? Seriously??) There are much, much better at a similar price or just above. Sorry I got these as now I have to pack them and hope I find someone who I can pawn it off on...sorry folks, these really aren't that good at all.