Dusty Chalk Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Since when did Nixon make headphones? link They're probably OEM'd, but then again, I doubt their watches are OEM'd, so maybe not. But then again, their specialty is watches, so of course their watches aren't OEM'd, so it's still possible that everything else they sell (clothes, bags, cufflinks, etc.) is. But I certainly don't recognize them, so if anyone has any theories on the subject -- much less heard them -- please speak up. No, I'm not getting them -- way too expensive to try just for whimsy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fungi Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Master Blaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Master Blaster Hmmm .... Why do I suddenly have flashes of Mel Gibson and Tina Turner? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archosman Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Looks like a rendered pic. Interesting. Too bad I don't have the dough... I'd be a guinea pig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elnero Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 I noticed this a couple of days ago when I went their website to get the manual for my watch (everytime I need to do something to it I need to get the damn manual). From what little I've seen they don't look like anything I'm aware of but I do find it hard to believe they're doing it themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostonetr Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 I think of them pretty much the same way i do of wesc headphones. I'd regard them as more of a fashion statement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smeggy Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Those Master Blaster earpads look damn interesting to me. I'd love to get a set of those to play with. The pads, not the phones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingwe Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Would *you* buy a used headphone from Nixon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smeggy Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmore Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Ugly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fungi Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 Some guy on 2ch on the Grado thread says the Nomadic sounds Gradoish, with clear midrange and snappy bass, or something. Anyone wanna dew eet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostonetr Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 heh. Were there any other opinions in support of their findings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fungi Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 Just one guy, but he sounds reasonable enough. He says they probably wouldn't go well with Sennheiser fans for their energy, so you could take that as Grado style, or it might be Ultrasone territory. Who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted February 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 I recently received an email from Barney's of New York that they're going to be carrying them, so perhaps once the weather gets warmer I'll wander across the bridge and see if I can listen to a pair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostonetr Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Be cool if you could try it without buying. If anyone really wants to take one for the team, karmaloop (pretty much anytime you can get 20% off) quite often has sales. For the last few months..they worked up to a 60% off sale, then kicked it back to 40% off for a bit of January. Not sure if the Nixon headphones qualify for the discount, I'd say most items usually do. Only after a lot of people take notice, do they remove certain items from being applicable for the discount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercuttio Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 I tried these in a snowboard shop on Broadway in NoHo. They're actually not bad, though I wouldn't say I could rate them as "good" without a better listen. The build quality is incredible. Much better than anything else right now, apart from the DT770. All metal construction, really nice leather for all the padding. Very, very comfortable. The weird part is that they've got a volume control ON the headphone itself... grab that coin edge surface and twist it, that's the volume. I'd consider getting a pair to try them on if I wasn't about to fund larger headphone investments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherwood Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 grab that coin edge surface and twist it, that's the volume. Ooh, neat. Sound quality concerns aside, that's a pretty innovative potentiometer implementation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fungi Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 I tried these in a snowboard shop on Broadway in NoHo. They're actually not bad, though I wouldn't say I could rate them as "good" without a better listen. The build quality is incredible. Much better than anything else right now, apart from the DT770. All metal construction, really nice leather for all the padding. Very, very comfortable. The weird part is that they've got a volume control ON the headphone itself... grab that coin edge surface and twist it, that's the volume. I'd consider getting a pair to try them on if I wasn't about to fund larger headphone investments. The guy on 2ch who tested both said the folding joints on the Nomadic (not Master Blaster (which sounds similar, he said)) were really fragile. Did you test the supraaural Nomadic at all? It's only $120 MSRP compared to the $200 Master Blaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercuttio Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 The guy on 2ch who tested both said the folding joints on the Nomadic (not Master Blaster (which sounds similar, he said)) were really fragile. Did you test the supraaural Nomadic at all? It's only $120 MSRP compared to the $200 Master Blaster. Oh, no I only tried the Master Blaster, which seemed relatively stable jointwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Regardless of how they sound, I'd like to see one of the insane othro-modders get ahold of a pair of these... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercuttio Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Regardless of how they sound, I'd like to see one of the insane othro-modders get ahold of a pair of these... And really, I think they actually sounded OK. Not like, $200 OK, but "Hey, this has pretty nice mids, I'd like to hear more of it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elnero Posted February 27, 2009 Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 So have any more people had the chance to audition these yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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