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
Massdrop has the final specs, and based off of their April update, they should also have a pallet of HD58x‘s sitting in their distribution facility. I don’t know what their strategy is by withholding the specs for so long. One update in 5 months?
I really would not be surprised to see this first production run take even longer than anticipated, and I, personally, am perfectly fine with that. I would rather that than be disappointed once they arrive because of something that got past QC. I don't imagine replacements would be readily available for a while either.
And hey, my 6xx are about to arrive anyway (today, 2 days early!), so I'm a happy man. Now if my Topping stack would just ship! Guess I'm about to see just how much a diff it makes over my ASUS onboard audio after all. Happy waiting y'all!
Yeah, I think a lot of us that ordered the 58x already have the 6xx.
I would say since you already have the 6xx, what's the big hurry on these? They'll be done when they're ready, and hopefully will be worth the wait. Just my $0.02. I know that probably doesn't help the frustration much, sorry.
What would be interesting to know though is how close to the delivery target the first production run of those was.