Bjorn

Are they kidding with that interface? Wouldn’t get it if it was free.

The Kingsound stuff didnt impress me either. Certainly not a threat even to the lower end STAX

The fail is strong with this one.

Untrue. There is a Listen and a Listen wireless that have been around for a while. You just haven't heard anything about them as they've been overshadowed by the more serious open-back models.

It's just the regular ones painted black with fabulous, pinkish red accents, no?

Meanwhile at CES 2018..... USD $2400

Yeah dont those stators look dangerously exposed? Like you could stick your pinky in there and get a nice little sting..? EDIT: Never mind, just saw that line about the dust cover.

To their defense I actually thought those new Solos were okay when I tried em. As a fun head-banger. To warm for anything critical. Better for sure than Sennheiser's muddy, bright Momentum mess though. The rest of the Dr Dre lot certainly does suck.

Tell your friend to keep what he has. The Beats Solo 2 is a decent headphone. It has a warm, strongly bass-tilted, but very even FR that is tuned by professionals to make average hip-hop recordings sound great at loud volumes. It's not a peaky or distorted sounding headphone. For its intended purpose he won't find a better on-ear as most of those suck ass.

Champagne! Take my money!!

Actually the Mrspeakers headband is one of the best in the business. It’s ridiculously simple yet functional at the same time. And you’d need Thor’s hammer to break it..

I’m not a big fan of the spider-web earcups. But I am interested in how it sounds. I do quite like my Aeon closed.

Right, my bad. The mk2 is the Pure Bipolar... Just “Dynalo” is the single ended version with simplified PSU if I’m not mistaken. That’s the one I was referring to.

This guy and the Dynalo mk2 are basically the same amplifier design, correcto?

At least until the bass dropped. If I were a billionaire I’d probably get one just to listen to Drake and Kendrick Lamar. I’d probably up the wank factor to 11 with a little gold in there as well. The Sennheiser guy did tell me an Asian customer ordered one with precious metal details for another 50k. Brought the total to a 100k. Wank wank.