Are headphones like washing powder? - Page 2

Heya,

 

I think they sell well because they're marketed well. You can sell anything if it's marketed well enough. You find them everywhere for sale. They're in magazines. They're on TV. They're in all the chains. Anyone who joins their product into Apple's hype instantly sells products, and Skull Candy has done that.

 

Very best,

What do you think of Grado labs?

I wonder what this means for the future of Mi-Fi and flagship range of headphones

if companies like Skullcandy continue to grow market share with no intention

of developing better products for the audio enthusiast.

 

If it's anything like the stereo audiophile market then it's a worry.

 

You ever seen a pair in a Walmart and some kids screaming, "Snap, those are dope!"

 

That pretty much should answer it.

 

Very best,

You have to love Grado, outside of a website - they don't advertise to

the best of my knowledge.

 

Word of mouth is still a powerful marketing tool.

 

Although I did hear that John Mayer is sponsored by

Alessandro! Not a fan, but good on him.

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Where would you classify the hd595 ? They are not yet discontinued, they are still listed on the sennheiser website.

I'm disappointed with the cracking issue , I  got to "repair" them using some tape & some glue. When I  saw  here that all the headphones were cracking at the same place , i.e between the letter "n" & "h" I  felt that I  was cheated . I  believe this flaw was well known by sennheiser and  it was kept  purposely. 

Also I  wouldn't  "objectively" classify them as "accurate", as it is doing weird stuff to the sound, i.e smoothing everything ; so it's more for subjectives reasons that they are liked.

 

Also I  don't if you remarked this about the sennheiser iem  line:

- IE6 : circular shape

- IE7 : semi-circular shape , one part is round, the other is flat.

- IE8 : it's cubic , so only with flat faces.

So if it's the housing of the driver that makes the main difference in sound , I guess sennheiser must be quite laughing at suggesting different shapes, at quite different prices.

 

And the only difference between the hd595 & hd555 is a piece a foam.

 

I  must say I  do not like much the commercial practices of this brand.

 

 

What about ifrogz ? There's no skullcandy where I live, only ifrogz.

Headband cracking has been reported with the HD 650 also, in a few cases Sennheiser repaired them under warranty.

 

Can't comment on the HD 595, the 598 though sounded like an alternative to my K601 without the mandatory amping, making it more practical. 

sennheiser is one of the most overrated brand.
they make money just on the name of their handful of good cans.
people complain of Bose headphones that it's all marketing, but not of sennheiser.
it's hard to find any bad review of 95%of sennheisers.
just look at headroom .every headphone is like
' omg I can't believe so good headphones at such a price. man it's amazing, kudos to sennheiser ,this ,that.'
I say WTF.....
I even wonder if people actually HEAR the headphones they write about.
most just read reviews and buy them with nothing to compare them to and review them as out of world, out of galaxy.don't be out of your mind baby.
I may sound like am anti sennheiser weapons and tactics but I'm not.
the 500 have issue with build quality. u just paid handsome papers on it and u can't be sure if it will last or not. this isn't good.

on sub 200 headphones, I really appreciate denon. ,looks aside, they sound good and just LOOK flimsy.

Come on, man, if you're going to bring a thread back from the dead, at least write something constructive...

sorry buddy, didn't saw the date. I saw it in one of the new post's related discussion thread, I assumed it to be new.