Marshall Monitor on sale for cheap. Should I get it?

[itinkerstuff]

So the Marshall Monitor is on sale in an online shopping site for roughly 55 USD (converted from Philippine Peso). Is it worth it? Should I buy it? I'm planning to use them as my main PC gaming/video chatting headphones. I will connect it to my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 along with my cheap XLR condenser mic. To anyone who has it and has tried gaming on it, how was the experience? I mostly play FPS games that requires positional audio (CS:GO, Overwatch, Insurgency, Rainbow Six Siege, Squad). How's the soundstage? Mids and highs?

 

[Intensecure]

on sale in an online shopping site for roughly 55 USD

That's awfully cheap. Last year I was looking at these for a portable and apparently there are a *lot* of fakes floating around. So I'd check to be sure they are the real thing.
(No idea for gaming, sorry)

 

[itinkerstuff]

That's awfully cheap. Last year I was looking at these for a portable and apparently there are a *lot* of fakes floating around. So I'd check to be sure they are the real thing.
(No idea for gaming, sorry)

There's at least a 95% chance that it's fake, but I'd still buy it because the reviews are actually pretty good. One guy actually compared it and says that he can't find anything different between the original that he bought for like 180 USD and this one.

 

[Dulalala]

So the Marshall Monitor is on sale in an online shopping site for roughly 55 USD (converted from Philippine Peso). Is it worth it? Should I buy it? I'm planning to use them as my main PC gaming/video chatting headphones. I will connect it to my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 along with my cheap XLR condenser mic. To anyone who has it and has tried gaming on it, how was the experience? I mostly play FPS games that requires positional audio (CS:GO, Overwatch, Insurgency, Rainbow Six Siege, Squad). How's the soundstage? Mids and highs?

Marshall Monitor are 42 ohm. The 2i2 has an output impedance of 10 ohm. I don't know how the Marshall Monitor will response to an impedance mismatch but I wouldn't take the risk personally.

 

[itinkerstuff]

Marshall Monitor are 42 ohm. The 2i2 has an output impedance of 10 ohm. I don't know how the Marshall Monitor will response to an impedance mismatch but I wouldn't take the risk personally.

I'm no audiophile. I'm new to this thing, so I don't know if I'm right, but based on my own research, it should be fine. From Focusrite's website, it says:

"If unsure of what to purchase follow these general guidelines:
For all USB Bus Powered Audio Interfaces look for headphones with less than 250 ohms resistance.
To power any higher resistance headphones 250 ohms plus look for an audio interface with an AC Wall adapter."

And I've also seen forum posts from other people that use 60/65/64/55 ohms headphones with their Scarlett 2i2. So does it really have to match with the interface?

 

[Intensecure]

Firstly if it's a fake, you have no idea what actual impedance it has.
And secondly, the issue of impedance matching is only really critical with BA drivers, dynamics don't suffer nearly so much as long as the ratio is not way off. The standard is always claimed to be 8-1, but in practicality I've used matches of 4 or 5-1 with zero changes in sound. So I think you don't need to worry so much about that.
Just tricky things, fakes. Never heard good ones myself, prepared to be surprised tho'.

 

[Dulalala]

I'm no audiophile. I'm new to this thing, so I don't know if I'm right, but based on my own research, it should be fine. From Focusrite's website, it says:

"If unsure of what to purchase follow these general guidelines:
For all USB Bus Powered Audio Interfaces look for headphones with less than 250 ohms resistance.
To power any higher resistance headphones 250 ohms plus look for an audio interface with an AC Wall adapter."

And I've also seen forum posts from other people that use 60/65/64/55 ohms headphones with their Scarlett 2i2. So does it really have to match with the interface?

Well first of all, in that post they seem to think impedance is sensitivity which it isn't... Secondly, the general rule is 1/8 so you can still anything under 250 ohm, it would just be ideal to have it more than 80 ohms. Thirdly, impedance mismatching depends on the driver itself. Some drivers are more prone to having adverse effects while others aren't, hence my statement "I don't know how the Marshall Monitor will response to an impedance mismatch".

Firstly if it's a fake, you have no idea what actual impedance it has.
And secondly, the issue of impedance matching is only really critical with BA drivers, dynamics don't suffer nearly so much as long as the ratio is not way off. The standard is always claimed to be 8-1, but in practicality I've used matches of 4 or 5-1 with zero changes in sound. So I think you don't need to worry so much about that.
Just tricky things, fakes. Never heard good ones myself, prepared to be surprised tho'.

Impedance mismatching is not only critical with BA drivers... Sure BA drivers a much more susceptible to issues caused by impedance mismatching. The issues can also be much more extreme on BA drivers but like I mentioned earlier, it depends on the driver/headphone. Some dynamic driver will have little to no distortion (inaudible amount) while other will have a decent (audible amount) of it. Unless you have specifically tested this headphone with a 10 ohm output and can confirm that there is no variation, I personally wouldn't take the risk but the decision in the end is up to the OP. Some people like the change in sound that impedance mismatch gives out anyways.

 

[joric]

They're all fake and sound pretty badly https://www.head-fi.org/threads/marshall-monitor-bluetooth.846520/