ch1nkster
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ok so today, my dad and i went to this plaza place that had many stores such as The Good Guys and Best Buy (both of which are electronics shops that sell stuff at high, rip-off prices; good guys is better than BB) and went into the stores to look at some stuff. as i walked around in best buy, i was supries that they only had 3 phones you can try out which were the Bose Triports, MDR-V700DJ, and V600. having heard the v700 and v600 before and thought they were crap, i decided to try the Triports to see why everybody was baggin' on them on these forums. here goes:
Sound Quality
my first impression of these headphones was quite good mostly because they had this weird type of bass i've never heard before. i stood in the isle and listened to them for about 2 minutes and the crappiness started to kick in. even such a n00b as me could tell that the treble was crap. actually, they didn't sound that bad, until i saw the $150 price tag! man are these suckas overpriced. i could not easily tell if the phones were crap becasue the music being played was some song i've never heard before. bose tries to make you buy their headphones because they offer a lot of bass, something that a n00b looks for when hearing non-stock headphones. listening to them for only 2 minutes, the only thing i liked was the bass they offered.
Build Quality
ahahah are you kidding me? man these headphones have the build quality of 7 dollar cans. the earpads are really thin and there is like a big hollow space between (which isn't that bad, as they are quite comfortable). i ripped part of the cloth covering the drivers away to see attempt to take a look at the drivers for fun, and i found excess plastic sticking out of the inside of the phones. there were also marks like 083929 or whatever on the inside. the headband sucks **** and is like 1 cm thick, which i can imagine ripping apart by itself when i put the headphones inside my backpack.
Value
for $150 these headphones, they are as if a 5 yr old kid accidentally put the wrong price tag on them. i would not pay more than $50 for them. i thought they sounded okay until i got home and listened to my v6's and d66 for some time.
what's ironic is that in both stores (best buy and good guys) i could not try out the other headphones for some reason as the music would not come out of other headphones (good guys had some good headphones like senn hd-590 and some other senns headphones). sounds like some kind of marketing scam! since i am a n00b, i only know how to look for bass and treble in headphones. even so, i could clearly hear the difference between my headphones and the triports. overall, they don't sound horrible, but my $20 HP-170 pwns them like hell.
Sound Quality
my first impression of these headphones was quite good mostly because they had this weird type of bass i've never heard before. i stood in the isle and listened to them for about 2 minutes and the crappiness started to kick in. even such a n00b as me could tell that the treble was crap. actually, they didn't sound that bad, until i saw the $150 price tag! man are these suckas overpriced. i could not easily tell if the phones were crap becasue the music being played was some song i've never heard before. bose tries to make you buy their headphones because they offer a lot of bass, something that a n00b looks for when hearing non-stock headphones. listening to them for only 2 minutes, the only thing i liked was the bass they offered.
Build Quality
ahahah are you kidding me? man these headphones have the build quality of 7 dollar cans. the earpads are really thin and there is like a big hollow space between (which isn't that bad, as they are quite comfortable). i ripped part of the cloth covering the drivers away to see attempt to take a look at the drivers for fun, and i found excess plastic sticking out of the inside of the phones. there were also marks like 083929 or whatever on the inside. the headband sucks **** and is like 1 cm thick, which i can imagine ripping apart by itself when i put the headphones inside my backpack.
Value
for $150 these headphones, they are as if a 5 yr old kid accidentally put the wrong price tag on them. i would not pay more than $50 for them. i thought they sounded okay until i got home and listened to my v6's and d66 for some time.
what's ironic is that in both stores (best buy and good guys) i could not try out the other headphones for some reason as the music would not come out of other headphones (good guys had some good headphones like senn hd-590 and some other senns headphones). sounds like some kind of marketing scam! since i am a n00b, i only know how to look for bass and treble in headphones. even so, i could clearly hear the difference between my headphones and the triports. overall, they don't sound horrible, but my $20 HP-170 pwns them like hell.
