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in spite of all the requests I've never gotten around to reviewing anything from

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fostex that changes today because our friends over at Mast dropped asked me

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very nicely to check out their latest collaborative effort the fostex

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thx00 Mast drop Edition possibly the

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most ass-kicking pair of cans I have yet

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had my hands on

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Intel has brought ddr4 to the mainstream with their core i76700 K and core

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i56600k processors check out the link in

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the video description to learn more all right so let's take a little look around

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these babies shall we the cord is an unnecessarily thick and heavy braided

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Affair that reminds me of the one on my Den ahd 2000s it feels you know

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reassuringly premium if you're into that sort of thing but I'd have preferred

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something a little more practical and super preferred something detachable it

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just doesn't sit right with me to have a $400 product potentially damaged by a $5

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piece of wire moving up the headband

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according to the product page was designed with minimal padding because

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thanks to its curvature it just doesn't need anymore and I wish I could agree

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with that statement I almost did because

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the moderate clamping pressure of the ear cups supports a lot of the weight of

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the headphones without crushing my skull so it could have been outstanding but it

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comes away with a quite good rating here because of this who made the boneheaded

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call to put these hard seams on the

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underside of the headband I mean can we just all agree once and for all that bay

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Dynamic does headbands perfectly and copy them already moving on we find the

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smooth and satisfyingly

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clicky Steel Rod sizing mechanism along with a mass drop logo silk screened on

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the one side of the magnesium alloy body and a serial number on the other which

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brings us finally to the business side of things the gloss finished mahogany

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ear cups house custom tuned 50mm Dynamic

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drivers based on the fosc sound

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signature that so many people love but with Bas toned down a little bit and

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some of the edge taken off on the highs more on this later for now though they

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look absolutely stunning both on and off your head and while I'm still partial to

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genuine leather the faux leather cushion covers are made of some kind of eggshell

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protein or something that in theory improves breathability and in practice

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didn't make my ear sweat so mission accomplished I guess the ear cushion

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pads themselves are a little bit firm for my liking although they are

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sufficiently plushy meaning that a solid break-in period with the thx00 is a must

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though frankly I don't think think if I wore them every day eight hours a day

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for a year they would quite match the cloud-like comfort of my

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hd600s in spite of those complaints though largely thanks to their

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lightweight thoughtful non-nonsense construction I have no problem

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classifying the thx00 as very comfortable but let's talk

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sound in my usual battery of tests run on a Mayflower odac and O2 ranging from

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music you wouldn't like very much to music you'd really hate if you were some

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kind of audio snob the thx00 absolutely blew away my

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expectations female or male vocalists

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take the center stage which is right up my alley Highs are astonishingly

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detailed but without the fatigue that I

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get with longer listening sessions on my AKG k7x x's and the lows honestly remind

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me of nothing else in my entire stable

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they're just so well controlled

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it's like my ears are hearing the kinds of sounds that I'd expect to feel in my

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chest at a live performance with the only thing missing being the actual

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physical impact of the percussive note on my body and they pull this off

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without being like tuned for Millennials

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overpowering I mean I'm not much of an EDM guy but man give me a Bas drop on

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these any day of the week it is freaking exhilarating and on top of that I am not

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much of a closed back headphone guy either the hd8 DJs impressed me with

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their Bassy and fun sound signature but in time it was back to the hd600s with

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the k7xx only really coming in behind them for Comfort reasons with that said

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though it was pretty easy to forget that these are closed back I don't feel like

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I'm listening in a small rumor that my music is unnatural and like I'm giving

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up part of the experience to spare the

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people around me who don't share my musical tastes or for sound isolation on

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the subject of which my daughter was fussing for about 10 minutes while I was

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listening to these at a very reasonable volume and I totally didn't hear her

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which means they'll have to take away my dad of the Year award but that's okay

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because at least I got a kick-ass new set of daily driver headphones out of

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the deal because that is what you're looking at here in spite of my minor

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Comfort complaints these tickle my ears in a way that I just haven't experienced

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before I love tight Punchy Basse I love

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clear vocals I dislike highs that are accurate to the point where they're just

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kind of unpleasant to listen to and the thx00 do lots of what I like with very

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little of what I don't what a great product if you're shopping for a new

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headphone in the $400 range oh yeah did I mention they're pretty expensive I'm

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confident that if you buy these you'll be happy you did just move fast because

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