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How about DT1770?
ohsigmachi
232
Aug 16, 2018
WillWill, I own the DT1770 Pro and it is one of the mightiest closed backs I've ever laid my grubby mitts on. I love it, it's truly amazing, I can't heap enough praise on it's head... It doesn't hold a candle to the DT1990. If you're just going to offer a price break run the 1990s- full stop. Don't mess with it on a collab.
But if you're going to run a full-on collaboration, here are my thoughts.
I'm not sure what is the main driver of the price disparity between the 770 and the 1770 models: The 1770 regularly retails for $599 and the 770 was just on Massdrop for less than $150. Where does that $449 come from in the manufacturing and R&D costs? If it's the Tesla 2.0 drivers that drive that cost up, well my original suggestion of dropping custom matched 770 drivers into the 1770 chassis still stands.
But if that "main battle tank" build of a chassis is what costs so much, why not just get some hand matched tesla 2.0 drivers and drop them into a 770 chassis with a MD bespoke colorway (and for the love of GOD, give it a detachable cable!!!) and sell the Massdrop x Beyerdynamic DT7XX.
You could probably comfortably sell it for $199 and it would be a great closed back compliment to the two main MD collabs with Sennheiser and AKG.
zep483
656
Aug 16, 2018
Will1990s
ohsigmachiHah thanks for your post! Lots of your thoughts match with the broader discussions on Massdrop. We take all the discussions, votes, and purchases on MD into account when determining the details of our collaborations.
The DT7XX (detachable, Tesla driver, better colorway) at 199 was the first thing we pitched beyer in 2015. Sadly it wasnt possible from a cost perspective. I cant say much about the specifics there, but consider that many companies (across most technical product industries) sell their popular, affordable but iconic models at break-even or a slight loss to maintain market share. And that's at the manufacturing level, let alone when you get to the retailer level where Google indexes the lowest prices first in shopping searches so you might take a loss as a new retailer to attract people who you can sell more stuff to (at a higher margin) later.
We've been working with beyer to figure out the right path since 2015 and it's been a long road, littered with prototypes that couldn't quite make the cut.
Thankfully, the journey looks to be nearing an end. We have a prototype of a DT1770, retuned to smooth the Mt.Beyer peaks, and present the mids evenly without taking away from the deep bass rumble (along with a host of other beneficial changes).
More details to come soon, but based on all the information we can sift, this should get the community pretty excited.
ohsigmachi
232
Aug 17, 2018
WillA Massdrop 1770 is definitely a way to drive more interest in Beyer's higher higher end offerings. I love my 1770s and drive them off of the Darkvoice I got here on MD (it helps tame those BD treble peaks).
Good luck with the drop!
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