If I hadn't bought a pair of Fostex T50RP 50th Anniversary LE, I'd be happily rocking my MDR-MV1s as my daily driver mainly for its light weight, superb economics and great pairing with my WM1AM2 especially with the balanced cables (I'm still amazed to this day how much performance I'm getting...

Late night listening with them T5050s (this time, with the old and trusty Sony PCM-D100): The PCM-D100 has enough juice to drive the T5050s to eardrum-splitting levels (5/10 on the volume knob is already plenty loud). Granted, hooking the T5050s to a proper desktop setup would still be the...

Update after 1+ week of owning the T5050: The more I listen to them, the more I feel vindicated for going ahead with blindly purchasing a pair (and simply relying on everyone's feedback in this thread). Having listened to stupendously expensive headphones through the years (name it, most...

Signing in with Unit #A0705: For what I paid for my unit (~USD270, including taxes), I thought I got much more as far as the overall sound quality was concerned. I used to own at T50RP Mk3 more than 7 years ago and I hated that unit, mostly because of how badly it sounded (pretty flat...

And I thought I was happily retired from head-fi :face_palm: The original plan was to get the Sennheiser HD660S2 (been seeing rave reviews about them, despite me owning the HD650 already). Then when I had to stay at a mall here in Manila a couple of nights ago to while away the heavy rain...