Hawaiibadboy
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HBB, I have another question. For the current Top 10 list, the 77x is listed as number 6. However, I am assuming that this for the stock model. With the mod installed, would you rank it any higher than its current position?
No
It suffers from a odd characteristic of all 57mm cans that I have worn. Every single one. Poor mids,
This is a bass list though
On that point...
Plastic housed cans all suffer from a echo resonance where the bass is getting in it's own way. The TH by FOSTEX and SZ by JVC and the XB all have a hard/er surface somewhere behind or around the driver chamber/cup that controls that echo to the point where you can reach physical distortion before audible or at about the same time.
The aluminum mod helps a lot and on just bass it may be higher but the mids get louder but not better and asking folks to open their cans to experience something is too much. I'd have a buncha people breaking their cans and being pissed at me and they would have the right.
Mods are optional. Often effective but they cannot be related to the list.
77x are the best entry level bass cans IMO. You will want better later but on a budget they will hammer. And if one gets confident enough to crack them open they can get a little more.