[Gil80]

Sorry if this is a stupid question.
I'm not an expert in this.
I saw the Philips SHP9500 in Aliexpress for about $60USD and I bought them.
Looking at the pictures online and comparing them with what I got, it looks identical.

The entire box is written in Chinese and there's a scratch code to check if it's genuine on a website www.t3315.com - the site says it is genuine but I can't trust it.

I plugged it into my ifi Zen DAC v2 and I found that I was required to press the Power Match button to get these cans out of quietness level.

I went to https://autoeq.app/ and selected the profile of Oratoy1990 and the pre-amp is -14dB - that means I now have to push the volume past 12 o'clock to listen to them.

So long story... I'm trying to figure out if they are fake or not - if it's even possible to know by looking at them.

 

[dunring]

Nobody makes fakes of those. They're made in China and I've gotten several pairs for the business over the years. There's a lot of fake $400+ IEMs, but not a headphone in that price point. I always get them for $60 when Focus Camera does an overstock selloff.