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
Only one picture :: https://massdrop-s3.imgix.net/product-images/massdrop-x-hifiman-he4xx-planar-magnetic-headphones/AI7B9909_copy_20170725104736.jpg :: gives us an inside shot of the internal wiring. However; the other pictures don't match up to some of the description given in the promotional bump. E.g.; Either my monitor's color calibration is off; or the headphone on display is one of the production prototypes as it lacks a mentioned midnight blue color.
Assuming that this is a production prototype on display instead of a finalized model; I'm not sure we can definitively say that there are no shielding solutions or chokes in use. What we can assume is that the internal construction will very likely that match that of other HE-400 devices. A quick check of Head-Fi isn't showing me any obvious threads over internal shielding issues muddling sound on other HE-400 devices.