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
My only complaint is the build quality: they look solid and well finished, but one of the right earcup screws popped off after a few minutes and now it won't stay in, even after pushing it for a while. I'm attaching some pictures so you can see what I'm talking about. Has anyone dealt with the same problem? I'm considering putting some glue on, but I don't know which one should I use, don't wanna lock the pivot movement so I have to be careful. I also contacted support, but they said the don't know how to fix this, and the only thing the offer me is a replacement or return, but I'd like to keep my pair because they sound great. Suggestions?
Man, I've never heard a planar magnetic headphone. I was going to get the HE560 for $350 on Adorama but decided against it because I read horror stories about those cans, and did not want to bother returning them if they came bad, which was highly probable.
For $169.99, though, I'm willing to risk getting the HE4XX. If it comes defective, I'll just return it. Massdrop has great customer service in my experience and it's like someone is always waiting for my message, because they reply quickly. But I pray to God they come functioning, because the only time I bought headphones and they came bad were some supposedly new beyerdynamic DT 1350 from an Amazon seller that came with a bad plug. I say supposedly because you never know with beyerdynamic, since they bizarrely never use sticker seals on their boxes. It irks me!
I do not buy the argument that this happened in transit since they were very well protected. The idea that someone put them in the box like that or this screw came off so easily really worries me for the future.
The bass shake problem that I am just hearing now gives me another headache...but thanks for warning me.
And I have both Meze 99 for closed back.
The re-design of the HE4xx is good but skimping on quality to the point it affects the comfort of the headphone and most importantly the longevity of the product is bad business. Don't tell me labor cost less in Ireland (HD6xx) then in China (HE4xx)! And this only shows the product was assembled by unskilled entry level workers to save a few bucks. I don't care how good it sounds if it'll fall apart in a year or two. And you're right about building confident. Guess I'll look somewhere else when it comes to planar headphones. Should have bite the bullet and bought the Oppo PM-3 before they discontinue it.
BTW just found out the left side cable is shorter than the right. No wonder the left cup feels "heavier" than the right. Sigh...
Regarding PM3 I tried at home in comparison to hd650 for a couple of days. I clearly prefer hd650. Not fair comparison since it is closed back but still I chose Meze 99 classics instead of this. Now do not get me wrong PM3 is a superior in technical terms phone among many. But they overdid it with smoothness according to my opinion. It Is like sugar in a coffee. Too much and might spoil the taste. People describe PM3 like boring headphone. It is NOT according to me. I think they just overdid it in the effort to impress with the planars capabilities. So maybe after all you did not do a bad choice unless you are certain you like them so much and now they have extra value since they are discontinued.
Is anyone from you European union that ordered Hd6xx. Since they are made in Ireland do they include any certification to avoid extra import fees? Can be done something about this or because they ship from USA nothing can be done. Pretty ironic to pay import duties to an import from Ireland.