ATH-M50 vs ATH-M50S LE impressions - Page 8

Differences due to cable can still be legitimate physical events considering:

1) Different cables can be made of different materials. I'm sure you will find that many people swear by the difference between silver and copper audio cables.

2) Electrical interference from outside sources. We live in an age where some sort of wave (which is a signal in itself) is always constantly passing through. It's possible that even if you have not changed the system, an interference from outside sources may hit the system somewhere and cause the changes. That's why we have shielding for our electrical components. 

I'm not sure how you conducted your tests, but there are surely variables that can cause physical differences to occur beyond your control (like the interference).

I actually went and did a lot of reading and research after perceiving the differences between these 2 headphones myself, and realized that there were way too many variables to list. Still, I maintain that there is a difference between them, and it's not as big a difference between, say, the M50 versus the DT770, but it's surely as big as the difference between the DT880 250 Ohm and the DT880 600 Ohm.

Well, they do. But apparently, it's not the first time that the M50 has had manufacturing differences. I'm sure you can find more on this subject when you do a search for "M50 blue box vs white box".

And also apparently, their impressions are exactly like mine regarding blue box M50 vs white box M50.

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Originally Posted by waywei96 

Damn you import tax... Seems like I can get much better quality headphones for the money if I go to the US then?

Yes. At that price point, you can buy a new Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro, which, in my opinions, is leaps and bounds above the M50 in quality.

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Originally Posted by takato14 

Cables do not create any audible difference in sound unless they are truly terrible. Most headphones over $100 have good cables. You don't need a $2k recable.

Clearly you haven't listened to silver or copper audio cables. They sound very very different.

But I agree you don't need a $2K recable. You just need a "different" cable.

I would say yes as well... if the difference is not much. I think the LE looks better than the regular version.

That aside, the "difference" that I heard is actually not by much. Now that I have scaled up higher and looked back, I think I exaggerated a lot of things.

If you are tight on budget, the regular version would do just fine.