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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #250 on: October 10, 2014, 10:20:12 PM »
for the 20 dollar bracket, what about those monoprice 8323s that were praised by Tyll and Steve Guttenberg. They look like they measure pretty good for that price as well. I havent tried them myself though so I cant comment more than that.
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #251 on: October 10, 2014, 10:27:34 PM »
Personally, if we are trying to get a best-bang-for-the-buck leaderboard, the TH-02 is a no-brainer. Some people aren't willing to dish out more than $50 for headphones if they aren't Bose, but we should give them a reason to. I like c61746961's idea for having a modded headphone section but for $15.99 with Amazon Prime? Shit, it doesn't even need to be modded to recommend to the frugal types out there. But for those that want to finally get their hands wet with modding, what do you have to lose? Remove that stupid cable, add a removable jack. Throw in some foam and dynamat. Get some HM5 pads if you don't like the supra-aural fit.

You can barely get two Chipotle burritos for $15.99.
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #252 on: October 10, 2014, 10:32:49 PM »
TH02 improves with mods, but unmodded for $15 is still good.

"Rough" sound is relative of course; the TH02 have a rough treble but great bass and mids. Fairly hi-fi sounding until you get to the treble.
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #253 on: October 10, 2014, 10:39:24 PM »
As no closed models have made the list besides Paradox, I'll renominate clones of Yoga CD880. ZMF Vibro is worth investigating too.
« Last Edit: October 22, 2014, 02:32:51 AM by Claritas »
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #254 on: October 10, 2014, 10:47:25 PM »
Quote from: OJneg on October 10, 2014, 10:32:49 PM
TH02 improves with mods, but unmodded for $15 is still good.

"Rough" sound is relative of course; the TH02 have a rough treble but great bass and mids. Fairly hi-fi sounding until you get to the treble.

I dunno, thought they were overall rougher/grainier than the Oppo PM1.  Maybe on par with the 558, but not mid-top tier from what little I heard.
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #255 on: October 10, 2014, 10:48:19 PM »
Quote from: Claritas on October 10, 2014, 10:39:24 PM
I'll renominate clones of Yoga CD990.

I'll reask, where can you buy them?
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #256 on: October 10, 2014, 10:50:54 PM »
NVX XPT100 goes for about $100 online (Incl. Amazon).
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #257 on: October 10, 2014, 10:55:26 PM »
Quote from: c61746961 on October 10, 2014, 10:50:54 PM
NVX XPT100

Sweet.  Looks like they have the Brainwavz HM5 still too.  They have my vote!
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #258 on: October 10, 2014, 11:04:12 PM »
I thought the HM5 sounded pretty weird. Assuming that applies to the FA-003, NVX, Jaycar...all the copies.

Holy crap, you can get the TH02 for $16 now? Yeah, I could get behind adding those to the list. Monoprice 8323 isn't bad too, but I don't remember it well enough. My initial mods on it weren't so great (one of those things where you keep tweaking it over and over and start to adapt to a weird sound - bad call).
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #259 on: October 10, 2014, 11:06:01 PM »
Quote from: Anaxilus on October 10, 2014, 10:55:26 PM
Sweet.  Looks like they have the Brainwavz HM5 still too.  They have my vote!

I misunderstood your question. I have XPT100: it's the same thing but cheaper and it looks nicer--all black.
« Last Edit: November 30, 2014, 11:01:24 AM by Claritas »
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