I was going to write that but BURNART beat me to the punch. Looks like a CD1000 or CD3000 without the suspension headband and a slightly different cup shape. Do you know what are the drivers in there, out of curiosity?

Looks slick! How does it compare to the D8000 if you've had the chance to try that?

Ten and Tracer is so underrated, I wonder what he's up to nowadays I don't think I've seen anything from him in years. A lot of the classic IDM people seem to have just stopped making music for the most part which is bittersweet…

I've owned a pair for a few months now, I got them as my main open-back pair for making music, monitoring and mixing (with the closed-back counterpart being the Sony MDR-Z1000) and I find them to be probably the most precise pair of headphones I own. They aren't the most transparent and neutral...

Revisiting some old tunes today…

Just chiming in here, I'd been looking for a long time for a replacement for some old IEMs of mine that I still use to sleep with (the Zero Audio Carbo Tenore) and wanted something with the same or a similar form factor but a detached cable. The Final E4000 and E5000 seemed to me to be the best...

Congrats to you both on getting the 580, I actually got a pair very early this year of the Precisions and they are excellent imo, I ended up selling my 58X since I wasn't using them anymore. Sidenote but am I the only one who thinks Sennheiser should go back to trying out different grille...

Ohh cool, are these official MDR-F1 driver replacements or third party/aftermarket ones? Where did you find them? My pair still works fine but I've been spooked by all the reports of failing drivers to be honest 😅

Very jealous of those CD5s, the early MDR-CDs look amazing.

Somewhat unrelated but curious where you got that foam ring. Currently on the hunt for some foam to use for a replacement pad… have not had the best luck with it so far.

This listing is for a pair of Flare Pro IEMs, the very first generation of them. These are monitoring single dynamic driver (5.5mm beryllium driver) IEMs with a grade 5 aerospatial titanium chassis. They were geared towards monitoring applications but are also pleasant for listening to music on...

Immense loss for music. RIP.

Extremely fake or at the very least Frankenwatched. Probably a genuine Seiko 5 movement in there cribbed from some other model, but that dial is peak Mumbai special. There are dozens/hundreds/thousands of these on ebay at any given time. If a dial has this Seiko font: Instead of this one: You...

Listening to this track off of my WM1A using my MDR-CD2000. Beautiful spaces.

Kind of sad to see that you had to let them go but pretty cool to see some more info on these as well as measurements, considering how rare they are. Bummed I missed the classified but I didn't have the cash to spare anyways so, hopefully new owner treats them well. From what I see internally...

So I'm currently really enjoying the MDR-CD2000, I recently got (for more than I paid for the headphones themselves, funnily enough) NOS genuine replacements for their earpads and headbands, which on my pair originally both had issues (the headband was sagging and no longer doing its job and the...

Reissue of a long-lost cassette release, dub techno and idm hybrid forms:

Good question, I have not heard a 7506 in years and opinions on how it sounds compared to the CD900ST seem wildly varied and sometimes contradictory, so I have no idea what the consensus is regarding those two. As far as I'm aware, the MX10-B is lower in sub-bass compared to the MX100-Z so it...

Nicely done, I've had a hard time locating these. I have a copy of the previous model in the range (the HA-MX10-B) that I'm going to mod with the same Z1000 pads (that are so god damn comfortable), and I can post some comparative testing between that and the CD900ST if people are interested...

From this interview with Koji Nageno who designed the MDR-CD900ST (among other things): Pretty interesting justification he gives for the meaning behind the acronym I think.

Thanks for the link, however the site is not showing me any prices and this error message shows up on every page: Edit: found them on this other similar website but they seem out of stock.

What would you guys recommend as a good first-buy to get into the Grado club? I have personally heard the SR60 and SR125 before (I believe it was the e version for both) and I enjoyed the both of them. There are a lot of SR60/80/125 available second hand. Are there any revisions to avoid...

So I have got the Sony MDR-CD2000 for a couple days now, going from my memory of the couple of Grados I have tried (SR60, SR125), I would say that the CD2000 is perhaps a bit less sparkly, with similar high-end detail nonetheless. Tuning in the higher frequencies is comparable though, in my mind...

Hi all, I recently came in possession of a pair of MDR-CD2000. It works very well safe for one small problem, the headband which I assume to normally be self-adjusting is no longer doing its job properly. (photo for reference) It's quite easy to remove it from the headphones themselves, there...

That looks mighty useful actually. Which pair of headphones did that come with, out of curiosity?