Actually, great! They're still totally black and that is after heavy use. HOWEVER some black rubbed off on my Yaxi pads. Not a lot but thought I should mention it.

I googled floola and it might be my salvation! I haven't been able to figure out a decent way to sync my music library which has a lot of flacs with my iPod. I've been manually converting them to 320cbr mp3s and adding them to itunes but it's really awkward. I just want to take a playlist, put...

I'm quoting myself since I've been going back and listening to all my earbuds again and have to say Fengru Silver are on another level. I never really gave them much of a chance since I had ordered a bunch of earbuds around the same time and kind of hated the cable, but they sound great! Punchy...

Nice mini review! What's the difference between Classic Harman and Classic Moondrop? And once the eq is set in the app, do you need to keep the app running or could you pair the Nekocakes with another device and they'll keep their eq setting?

I've been out of the earbud game for a year or so. I have these: VE Monk+, RY4S UE, Fengru Silver, Vido, Yincrow X6, Philips SHE3800. Any new sub $20 MX500 style come on the scene that I should check out?

Thank you! The tone volume was pretty low so I cranked it all the way up. I turned the lights on too and am keeping them at their dimmest.

I am having a heck of a time telling when this thing is on or off. I'd rather not set it to have the lights on all the time. Anyone have any tricks to be able to tell?

So I ended up uninstalling Rockbox and restoring my iPod with iTunes. I synced my 12,000+ songs (took awhile). I noticed one song cuts off early. If there's one song, then there must be more with the same issue. With Rockbox, you just use your iPod as a drive and transfer songs over. I used...

It's awesome to see this thread still alive. I have a super beat up iPod video that I bought new back in the day and I love it. I iFlashed it with a 128gb card and also Rockboxed it. I've been using Rockbox for about a year on it now but it's kind of slow and for some reason I still have trouble...

Yeah, I have the fake SHE3800. Anecdotally they seem more common now.

I'm not a huge fan of the SHE3800, but I'm not sure if fake is the right word when there are no real ones from Philips. I should pick up a pair of the Edifiers.

So after listening to the KSC75s and PortaPros for awhile I've come to a decision: I prefer the KSC75s. I'm half considering selling the PortaPros, or maybe I'll just throw them in the closet and come back to them after awhile to see if my tastes have changed. People criticize the bass of the...

I ended up putting tape over the KSC75 clip. It gives the PE headband enough to grab onto now.

I knew the cable was thinner but I hadn't heard that the sound quality was worse. Hopefully they'll mellow out after some more burn in.

I got a pair of Koss KSC75s and Portapros so I've been mostly listening to them the past two weeks. I just popped on my RY4S UEs for the first time in awhile and yo! These sound real good! I forgot how good they sound. These are endgame earbud material.

Yeah, I don't know if I can tell the difference. I'd probably only pay attention when trying out new headphones, otherwise I'm fine with 320kbps mp3s. Honestly a lot of my music is ripped at 192 from back in the day before I knew any better and now I don't have those CDs anymore to re-rip...

That's weird. You'd think it would be released to all of NA at once. I've been messing around with it and it's kind of fun. It's my first time hearing anything at 24bit / 96 kHz. The KSC75s definitely sound more detailed than the PortaPros. I'm listening to Crazy On You by Heart and the high...

True! I'll reply with my thoughts if (read: when) I get the SportaPros and try them out. BTW, I signed up for that 90 day free trial for the Amazon lossless streaming service. I ended up bringing my FiiO E17 to work and gave it a listen with my KSC75s. Don't ask me if I can tell the difference :).

It's funny, I've been thinking of getting a set of SportaPros for that exact reason, including wanting black drivers and keeping my PortaPro intact. I haven't tried the PortaPro drivers on the PE headband yet. I'm a little hesitant since I stripped one of the clips on my KSC75s by swapping them...

Totally off topic but I was just reading your 2012 thread about PortaPro vs. KSC75. https://www.head-fi.org/threads/is-it-okay-to-like-the-portapro-driver-more-than-ksc75-driver.615916/ For one thing, it's kind of amazing you're still involved in the Koss community. The other thing is I'm...

I bought my Yaxi pads straight from Yaxi. They ship from Japan which took about a week but shipping was free. https://www.yaxi.jp/onlineshop/ I'm not sure about the warranty question.

I'm happy with how they turned out. Not sure how long the paint will last though! At least it's easy to touch up.

So I decided to paint my KSC75s black. I'm trying a Sharpie oil paint pen. No idea if this will work. I hope no paint dripped on the drivers.

Kind of cross posting from the PortaPro thread. Got my Yaxi pads. I'm digging them. Sound about the same, but ups the comfort level considerably. This completes my portable sound setup. PortaPros/KSC75s + rockboxed iPod video with iFlash SD card adapter.

Got 'em! They're great. As others have said. I don't really notice a difference in sound. Certainly more comfortable though.