Fostex X Massdrop TH-X00

Made an account just to reply to this and comment on Dyson Audio. Over the past few months he has made me some amazing stuff that he doesn't charge near enough for. Not that I want him to charge more, but he totally could.

 

sounds interesting, I just contacted him about some long run interconnects, let 's see what comes of it...

 

Man...oh..man...I am so temped. Especially when someone is measuring it against Z7. How do I get on the loaner program of this one

 

I'm seeing people refer to this headphone both as closed and as semi-closed... is it safe to assume the noise leakage is much lower than the HD650? I would be using it at the office

 

According to Innerfidelity, 5db more broadband noise isolation (-7db as opposed to HD650's -2db). A quality closed headphone like the PM3 has -22db isolation.

I will say from experience that these Foster headphones are a little better at keeping the sound in than keeping the outside sound from getting in.

 

I hear that this is semi-closed, and is similar to z7. A port under neath and on top to do what they call " acoustic optimizer ". The sound is exactly as said above, z7 keeps the sound in, but not keeping outside sound to leak in. I like it as I can pause and talk to others while I can listen to music with minimal league to the outside

 

I'm not a proponent of upgrading cables to better the sound.. to me not much difference. But honestly, Dyson Audio makes the best custom cables for the best price for on the web. All my balanced 4-pin cables are from Dyson and are exactly as I spec'd and work perfectly. Let me ask about a balanced cable for the TH-X00.

 

Would the Valhalla 2 drive these phones well with it's 3.5 ohm output impedance in low gain?

 

BTW I heard these. They're awesome. Buy them now. Not as bassy as I was led to believe, just right.

The Merv will post Heptagon chart as soon as it has been processed through our advanced Satanic mulitgon rating algorithms. It requires goat sacrifice.

 

Any experimentation with putting damping material in the cups?

 

Well, I backed out. Rather than swimming about in mid-fi purgatory, I'll continue to enjoy what I have and put the money towards something that's a true upgrade.

 

Mods for the sake of modding => Worse than mid-fi purgatory

 

Real upgrades ? It depends on what you refer too. If you mean much more expensive headphones then you are correct . Or if you prefer the more v-shaped th900 ? You are also correct.

 

The measurements show a characteristic closed cup coloration with the lower-mid suckout and CSD irregularities in this region-- however slight it may be. I've not listened to these yet since they haven't shipped out, but since we're already thinking about rolling some pads and possibly measuring those, I don't see what the harm in sticking some dynamat or other easily reversible damping in the cups would do.

 

wow https://www.massdrop.com/buy/fostex-x-massdrop-th-x00

$400 seems to good to be true for a beautiful and well-constructed headphone like this. It's as well-built as the Fostex 900.

It seems to me that the only way Fostex could make their huge margins at that price is by skimping on the other tech? But it even has a 1 tesla driver and its specs are close to the 900. I don't understand how this can cost only $400.

 

Headphone components don't cost as much as you'd probably think-- at least not with all the radically overpriced headphones on the market right now.

Looking at the TH900 cup making video on youtube, a large part of the TH900's cost probably went into that.

 

What tech? It's frequency response measures better that the TH-900 and has as good of distortion measurements as the HD650. I think the price point is far more realistic compared to some of the recent ridiculous headphone prices.

 

But the cup on the TXx00 looks just as good as the 900's cup, no? Ignoring the fact that one is red and one is amber.