money4me247
Headphoneus Supremus
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your picture isn't hi-rez enough to capture the addition of powered unicorn horn added to the new diaphragm.
wish they just change this terrible plastic to something more sturdy
The most overrated mid-fi headphones of all time? (even modded)
The t500rp, or the 50rp?
For the price there is next to nothing on the market that can match a t50rp.
T500rp on the other hand.... anything from hifiman, to mr-speakers, to audeze. One you get up into the $500-800 range, options are open. Never heard any of them, but I'd imagine theyre better heh
with the tr50p and a little patience you can make a pretty decent sounding can
under $200 bucks
you can't buy an ortho for that
thats not over rated in my book
Hence why I'm so excited for the mk3s. If the T50RP mk3s are damped like he said, that saves modding (depending, of course Ill put my 840 pads on them)
Ergo said:Nope. They are extremely mediocre. If you cannot afford a $1000 planar megnetic headphone then there are much cheaper dynamic headphones that sound just as good as them and better than the FOTM T50RP.
That's why we mod them for dirt cheap, hence the HUGE modding community. Becuase once fully modded, trust me, they will blow the doors of anything $400 or less. The difference between stock, and modded is unexpectedly massive
Orthros are fundimentally better then dynamic drivers. Less non-liner motion, lighter over all diaphragm weight. That's why the best headphones are always orthro (well...electro-static, thats VERY costly)
I've used many dynamic cans around the $250 mark. From shenns to Sures, to Bose, to momentums, to Beats (shudder), Sony, Grados, random terrible name brands on RadioShack special. I own 2 pairs of porta-pros. Legendary for their cost to performance ratio.
I mean you could troll all day, and go no where, considering you're commenting on a thread for t50rps...
but some people do prefer the sound of dynamics over the extremely revealing nature of orthos. And that's totally fine. Orthros can make your set up sound terrible. When I first plugged them into my Classic, I realized how aweful the op amp is on it, but on my Schiit Uber stack, it's actually a bit mind blowing how good terrible quality mp3 files can sound (also how bad when you compare them to lossless)
Why should I trust you when I can trust me? I have spent a lot of time modding them myself and they sound nowhere near as good as Sennheisers.
Planar magnetic headphones are theoretically better but not all planar magnetic headphones are better than dynamic driver headphones. The T50RP's have a pretty cheap and crappy driver with relatively high distortion.
Please do not call expressing an opinion trolling.
Dynamic headphones with lower distortion can be much more revealing than planar magnetics.
BTW ortho is a terrible term.
That's why we mod them for dirt cheap, hence the HUGE modding community. Becuase once fully modded, trust me, they will blow the doors of anything $400 or less.(heh sometimes anyways....) The difference between stock, and modded is unexpectedly massive
Orthros are fundimentally better then dynamic drivers. Less non-liner motion, lighter over all diaphragm weight. That's why the best headphones are always orthro (well...electro-static, thats VERY costly, they run on a similar idea anyways)
the pm3 is a $400 planar that measures extremely well. it wld outperform a diy t50rp mod.