Didn't see any reviews on this yet so I guess I'm 1st.   I compared this with JDS Labs C5, Fiio E12, E6, Objective 2, Magni 2 Uber, and Schiit Fulla.    Nothing brings to mind the phrase "polishing a turd" like the sound of the unit in my opinion. There are loads of sonic tweaks in the Soundblaster Central app that's free from the iOS app store, but ultimately none that I tried were successful in giving the Creative Soundblaster E5 a more *expensive* sound. Ultimately, the Fiio E6 even had a more "expensive* sound than this imo.    I wanted to...

I have 4 pair of these, all given to me as a result of my job, which is professional DJ. The 1st pair I got had the 1/4 adapter connected(see photo) to the cable permanently so you would never lose it, which I thought was a very nice touch for traveling DJ's because I lose them all the time, but that feature was later removed in the 3 pair I got after that. The flip up ears are also a very nice touch and in my case at least, very well done because I can flip up an ear and the headphones still fit snuggly.     Beats gets a bad rap from...

I'm a professional DJ/Producer. In my rider I ask that the venue supply the headphones. So I have at least 100 pairs of headphones, and that's after giving away the majority of them to friends. Not going to bother to run off every pair but I've tried just about every pair out.    Just before I was about to play in Stockholm I received a pair of these Marshall Major FX headphones and out of the box they were noticeably the best sounding portable headphones I'd ever heard. A friend had just come into my room (He's also a DJ) and I let him hear them...