Sony has new headphones, MDR-1R - Page 128

Got a pair of MDR-1r off eBay as its swamped with people selling their free pair that came with the new Sony Xperia Z.

First impressions. These looks a million dollars. Make my portable Bose Ae2i looks cheap plastic. Sound quality. Very neutral. 6 hours burn in and a lot better. Doesn't have deep punchy bass even using E12. So not ideal for trance. But great with other genres.

I put on a bit of Justice and Modeselektor and found the bass to pretty good in all fairness. Then again, my only reference is my Goldrings DR150s which aren't exactly bass heavy...

 

 are you implying that I'm a kid?

Edited by KElyas - 3/6/13 at 12:48pm

I ordered it from ebay for dirt cheap too but am not sure whether to open it or not (and re-sell it in the future) because of two issues that I've heard from some reviews - the lack of sub bass and the tips of ears touching the driver 

Two things you can only try for yourself. At their normal price they probably have some stiff competition but at dirt-cheap and if you where looking at something cheap anyway you can do much worse.

 

I'm interested how it compares to the T50RP that's coming this way, the only one I in this price-range that has my attention.

Edited by paaj - 3/6/13 at 1:39pm

Hi, if you can remember how it sounded, what was the problem with pshchedelic music cos it's my favorite type of rock and I enjoy phycadelic soul quite a lot too. It being amazing for hip hop is great for me though becuase it is my favorite genre, I'd appreciate it if you could tell me what exactly made it good for hip hop as well please (again if you can remember).

yea I'm hoping (but fairly doubtful) that they'll be available to demo at the rather small sony store near my home so I'll see if they have it when I go back from uni. I don't understand why it's so easy to try out laptops before buying but not with headphones while demoing is so much more important for headphones. I mean it's mainly the specs of the laptops which are important and you can't test any of that other than the screen resolution in a store as far as I know

Edited by KElyas - 3/6/13 at 1:51pm

No, sorry, was just showing you how "punchy good kicks" can be. And that kid definitely should not be left unsupervised.

Edited by Andrew_WOT - 3/6/13 at 2:09pm

Oh I see!! haha  I should have made the connection, silly me. Thanks for the info

Edited by KElyas - 3/6/13 at 2:18pm

 

Wait - they give out free pairs with the Xperia Z?

 

That is a seriously good pack in offer...

Like mine better

 

Yeah, but that phone is like $800!

 

I remember when I bought a Sony television a few years back they gave you a free PS3, which at that point was $699 on the Australian market.

 

Proportionally the value of the freebie in both cases is pretty high. I'd be pretty chuffed to get a nice set of headphones with a high end phone purchase... as opposed to when I bought my iP5. And got an iP5.

After a few days of use, I'm strongly considering returning mine. Anything more than the slightest of head movements causes the plastic creaking sounds mentioned previously in this thread, as well as the occasional jack rattle. It's a shame, because these things sound awesome and are very comfortable.

I wonder if Sony is aware of this and cares enough to make a revision