Only had mine for a couple of days but here's some impressions..
Can they compete with full size headphones.. don't think so.. they're still over the ear closed headphones.. I tried the Denon 100th Anniversary about a month ago ad from I remember, I'd prefer them, but they were not my target next purchase. I still prefer my HD650's.
Soundstage.. I'd say about the same as the HD25's. (I have about 30 hours on the M-80's so far)
Isolation.. though I haven't used them on a commute, I've been testing against the HD25's side by side out of a FiiO E7 and believe that the M-80's will isolate better. Hard to describe the the fit but it is tighter and feels more closed in (not sure I like that right now). I'll see how the fit breaks on.
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Can they compete with full size headphones.. don't think so.. they're still over the ear closed headphones.. I tried the Denon 100th Anniversary about a month ago ad from I remember, I'd prefer them, but they were not my target next purchase. I still prefer my HD650's.
Soundstage.. I'd say about the same as the HD25's. (I have about 30 hours on the M-80's so far)
Isolation.. though I haven't used them on a commute, I've been testing against the HD25's side by side out of a FiiO E7 and believe that the M-80's will isolate better. Hard to describe the the fit but it is tighter and feels more closed in (not sure I like that right now). I'll see how the fit breaks on.
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Can't wait to get my hands on these already. Nice impressions sempermalum!
Someone mentioned that these can compete with full-size headphones - would you all agree? If that's true it's about time a company made a headphone that could. I don't know much about how drivers are built and all the technical details, but I just don't buy the fact that it is that difficult to give headphones with smaller drivers a decent amount of soundstage when iems are so small yet there are several that easily have wider soundstage than something like the hd25. And perhaps wider than the dt1350 since from what I read there's not much of an improvement on soundstage over the hd25. Can anyone also comment on the isolation vs. The hd25? Has anyone used them on a commute yet?