A $259 beats a $2599? This is good news.
In this hobby I would confidently say that the above is a lot more common than people might think. Not just when it comes to headphones either.
Will keep an eye out for these on Amazon Black Friday sales.
A $259 beats a $2599? This is good news.
Holy hell.
My thoughts exactly when I saw that a 2,5k headphone is built like a 100 dollar one. No wonder the measurements of it look like on the pictures underneath.
Note not only the general catastrophically bad frequency response, CSD and impulse response performance, but also the horrible channel imbalance in the lowest frequencies, I guess it's hard to use an exactly equal amount of hot glue on both drivers, so one is more tightly connected to the baffle and therefore moves less and produces more bass. Nah, we don't use some dampening in the earcup to take care of all those horrible resonances. We'll cover the headband with extremely overpriced ethiopian long-haired sheep leather instead.
That's a $2500 headphone ladies and gentlemen. For that money you can get an HD800. And a T1. Just in case you get fed up with one of them, you know...
Let's compare that Edition 5 to the engineering masterpiece (relative to the ED5) that is the Beats Solo 2:
You suddenly can't help but feel like Beats are a really good value for money if you want easy to drive closed back headphones. Of course they probably subjectively don't sound as nice if you dig the uneven, schizo-like, mid-bass boosted, mid recessed, super bright performance of the Ultrasone, but it's undeniably a better engineered headphone that performs exactly as whoever designed it intended it to perform. Warm and slightly bass-heavy, but smooth, even and quick.
Ironically, cheaper Ultrasone headphone are actually better than their high end closed back models.
The 598's still get recommended heaps, just that there are a few who won't buy them due to the colour scheme.
i hope more situations like this come to light, its unbelievable.
i hope more situations like this come to light, its unbelievable.
Well it's not a secret that most high end Ultrasones suck. Tyll's impression of the ED10 is one of the funniest around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ
Hear for yourself how horrible their tonalities are compared to the source track:
https://soundcloud.com/sonic-sense-pro-audio
What's the difference between the HD 598 and the HD 600?
A $259 beats a $2599?
Surprised you would get sucked in by price as seen you around for few years: it-is-Ultrasone