in spite of all the requests I've never gotten around to reviewing anything from
fostex that changes today because our friends over at Mast dropped asked me
very nicely to check out their latest collaborative effort the fostex
thx00 Mast drop Edition possibly the
most ass-kicking pair of cans I have yet
had my hands on
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these babies shall we the cord is an unnecessarily thick and heavy braided
Affair that reminds me of the one on my Den ahd 2000s it feels you know
reassuringly premium if you're into that sort of thing but I'd have preferred
something a little more practical and super preferred something detachable it
just doesn't sit right with me to have a $400 product potentially damaged by a $5
piece of wire moving up the headband
according to the product page was designed with minimal padding because
thanks to its curvature it just doesn't need anymore and I wish I could agree
with that statement I almost did because
the moderate clamping pressure of the ear cups supports a lot of the weight of
the headphones without crushing my skull so it could have been outstanding but it
comes away with a quite good rating here because of this who made the boneheaded
call to put these hard seams on the
underside of the headband I mean can we just all agree once and for all that bay
Dynamic does headbands perfectly and copy them already moving on we find the
smooth and satisfyingly
clicky Steel Rod sizing mechanism along with a mass drop logo silk screened on
the one side of the magnesium alloy body and a serial number on the other which
brings us finally to the business side of things the gloss finished mahogany
ear cups house custom tuned 50mm Dynamic
drivers based on the fosc sound
signature that so many people love but with Bas toned down a little bit and
some of the edge taken off on the highs more on this later for now though they
look absolutely stunning both on and off your head and while I'm still partial to
genuine leather the faux leather cushion covers are made of some kind of eggshell
protein or something that in theory improves breathability and in practice
didn't make my ear sweat so mission accomplished I guess the ear cushion
pads themselves are a little bit firm for my liking although they are
sufficiently plushy meaning that a solid break-in period with the thx00 is a must
though frankly I don't think think if I wore them every day eight hours a day
for a year they would quite match the cloud-like comfort of my
hd600s in spite of those complaints though largely thanks to their
lightweight thoughtful non-nonsense construction I have no problem
classifying the thx00 as very comfortable but let's talk
sound in my usual battery of tests run on a Mayflower odac and O2 ranging from
music you wouldn't like very much to music you'd really hate if you were some
kind of audio snob the thx00 absolutely blew away my
expectations female or male vocalists
take the center stage which is right up my alley Highs are astonishingly
detailed but without the fatigue that I
get with longer listening sessions on my AKG k7x x's and the lows honestly remind
me of nothing else in my entire stable
they're just so well controlled
it's like my ears are hearing the kinds of sounds that I'd expect to feel in my
chest at a live performance with the only thing missing being the actual
physical impact of the percussive note on my body and they pull this off
without being like tuned for Millennials
overpowering I mean I'm not much of an EDM guy but man give me a Bas drop on
these any day of the week it is freaking exhilarating and on top of that I am not
much of a closed back headphone guy either the hd8 DJs impressed me with
their Bassy and fun sound signature but in time it was back to the hd600s with
the k7xx only really coming in behind them for Comfort reasons with that said
though it was pretty easy to forget that these are closed back I don't feel like
I'm listening in a small rumor that my music is unnatural and like I'm giving
up part of the experience to spare the
people around me who don't share my musical tastes or for sound isolation on
the subject of which my daughter was fussing for about 10 minutes while I was
listening to these at a very reasonable volume and I totally didn't hear her
which means they'll have to take away my dad of the Year award but that's okay
because at least I got a kick-ass new set of daily driver headphones out of
the deal because that is what you're looking at here in spite of my minor
Comfort complaints these tickle my ears in a way that I just haven't experienced
before I love tight Punchy Basse I love
clear vocals I dislike highs that are accurate to the point where they're just
kind of unpleasant to listen to and the thx00 do lots of what I like with very
little of what I don't what a great product if you're shopping for a new
headphone in the $400 range oh yeah did I mention they're pretty expensive I'm
confident that if you buy these you'll be happy you did just move fast because
I don't know how many of this cross branded skew they're actually making
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