Goldenear Triton 2 - My buddy's father co-founded the company with Sandy Gross and offered me dealer pricing. I was so excited until I went to audition them and shut my mouth. They were worse than Energy RC-70s paired with a shitty Klipsch sub for both HT and music.

Thank you!!!! What is it with Sandy Gross' companies and slobbering audio press? Why do his lousy speakers get them drooling like a $100K Magico? How is it that they are continually allowed to print bold faced lies in terms of FR? The hype train that Def Tech used to get when Gross was in charge and now GE gets is unbelievable.

I'll update this list as I/if I think of more items either to add or replace existing items. Do note that my experience with truly terrible or disappointing gear likely isn't as exhaustive as what others have experienced.

1. Sennheiser Momentum "Over-Ear" - Probably the weirdest headphone I've ever tried. Too large for on-ear, too small for over-ear. Maybe it would sound OK if it fit one way or the other and not somewhere in-between, but I just thought it sounded off. Very strange. Just could not make sense of it one way or the other.

2. Sony MDR-1R - Comfortable and look nice, sure, but the pair I received sounded like garbage out of the box. Super phat bass, but yet still lacked extension, large upper-mid bump followed by a large treble recession and upper-treble bump. Something like that. It sounds a lot better with mods, but I couldn't even stand them stock.

3. FA-003/HM5 - The particular HM5 pair I received just sounded weird and not good to my ears. Weird bass, harsh treble, very strange soundstage and overall presentation. Maybe I got a particular bad one, because I know these have generally been well-received. Even after extensive mods I could not get these sounding great. I was fairly disappointed. I gave them to a friend once I got them to a slightly better state (IMO).

4. SoundMAGIC HP100 - I got this under HF impressions that it was a relatively neutral, fairly budget headphone (already made a mistake there). WRONG on the neutral part. Phat, gross bass, recessed-mids and/or low-treble, uneven, artificial treble (but at least it wasn't too harsh sounding, I guess?). In fact, I was so disappointed with this, that I immediately returned it to Amazon and was compelled to write a review for it. I had a commenter claim I was wrong and linked to a measurement graph...which actually proved my point, but the guy just couldn't be bothered to read the scale of the graph.

5. Original attempt at modding the Monoprice 8323 - This is one of those situations where I got so wrapped up in modding something that my ears started to adjust to the bad sound. Made the mistake of not doing enough side-by-side comparisons. Once I got it back after Marv measured it, it just did not sound right. I felt pretty stupid. Unfortunate because the 8323 can actually sound good, I just modded it poorly (accidentally plugged the vent holes in the cups, main problem). Lesson learned!

What did you think of the comfort?

its almost HD800 levels of comfy

until you play music through it that is

If they nailed the HD600 sound in the HD700 form factor they could charge $500-700 for them. Super comfy.

Agreed!

I rather enjoyed GS1000 and PS1000, albeit with mods (TP over drivers) to tame treble. GS1000 was nice for its flat mids.

Thats whats weird, they are obviously inaccurate to my ears, but they are... fun I guess? They make me happy when I listen to them, so I guess that's a good thing.

Edit: I guess they provide a nice counterpoint to the HD800, which I primarily listen to.