M50 is overrated here is why.
Oct 12, 2014 at 1:55 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 15
ChronicLiar

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I just had to make this thread...
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We live in a world where 80 percent of the headphones we bought in our childhood were extremely congested and not very accurate.
 
When I bought my first pair of open headphones my first reaction was "Wow these sound so thin how do people listen to this?!" And then as time went by I realized I was just used to the congestion in closed back headphones.
 
I needed to make this thread because coming from an ATH m50 perspective every open-back headphone sounded dull and thin in comparison (this included sennhieser hd 558, senhieser 598, grado sr 325is and I made several thread regarding this issue ) but after a month of listening to open-back headphones the ATH M50 sound almost made me puke. 
 
I'm really confused how people can compare this headphone to open-headphones in the 300 dollar price range and up. These things are not even close and I feel like I should sell them or give them to my little sister.
 
Maybe in the world of closed back headphones they are the clearest and cleanest... But I think comparing them to the real beasts out there is just dumb. It's getting as bad as the hype on beats by dre!
 
Oct 12, 2014 at 2:06 PM Post #2 of 15
chronicliar said:
 
 
I'm really confused how people can compare this headphone to open-headphones in the 300 dollar price range and up.
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They don't.  As they say, it's like comparing apples to oranges.
 
Oct 12, 2014 at 2:13 PM Post #3 of 15
chronicliar said:
  I just had to make this thread...
evil_smiley.gif

 
 
We live in a world where 80 percent of the headphones we bought in our childhood were extremely congested and not very accurate.
 
When I bought my first pair of open headphones my first reaction was "Wow these sound so thin how do people listen to this?!" And then as time went by I realized I was just used to the congestion in closed back headphones.
 
I needed to make this thread because coming from an ATH m50 perspective every open-back headphone sounded dull and thin in comparison (this included sennhieser hd 558, senhieser 598, grado sr 325is and I made several thread regarding this issue ) but after a month of listening to open-back headphones the ATH M50 sound almost made me puke. 
 
I'm really confused how people can compare this headphone to open-headphones in the 300 dollar price range and up. These things are not even close and I feel like I should sell them or give them to my little sister.
 
Maybe in the world of closed back headphones they are the clearest and cleanest... But I think comparing them to the real beasts out there is just dumb. It's getting as bad as the hype on beats by dre!
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Did you start two threads on this subject?
 
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Oct 12, 2014 at 2:39 PM Post #15 of 15
7keys said:
  I have never heard the ATH m50 so I can't say. It seems when they were in the $100 price range many coincided them to be the best in that price range. 
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At first I liked the m50and then when I heard open back phones for over a month they sounded like two sub woofers planted in your brain. There is like zero soundstage..... The apple earbuds that came with the iPhone 4s has a better soundstage (This is sad).
 
I'm sure you can find better headphones for a hundred bucks ( the 558s) 
 
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