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When I first started to become interested in headphones, the K702, HD600 and some Stax were the best headphones one could get. And they still hold up nicely today.

Please let me know when

Yes. Had been for almost two years now... And it's true 1411kbps lossless not whatever concoction MQA claims to be... And it's also cheaper

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Not going down that rabbit hole with you.

Who's the vendor? Asking for a friend.

I'm sure these headphones with 1 dead driver sound great.

I'm actually using them now for gaming. Pretty solid.

If you want to (or have to) use Apple products then go with Apple Music. When you will be more reasonable, then forget Tidal, its a scam. Tried Spotify, Tidal, Deezer and Apple music side by side. Tidal is nearly as bad as Spotify. I really enjoy Deezer as it's cheap and great value (cd quality). You could use a wired connection for greater audio quality, it makes a greater difference then the streaming service. If you will reach a great setup with wired connections then check out Quboz.

I ordered during the summer sale just to see what $16.80 gets you. Wasn't expecting a decent cable but glad to know it's not terrible.

Which one is that?

I like the Audio Technica A900X but admittedly haven't listened or auditioned many good closed back headphones.

Hexa is significantly better

Android caps at LDAC 990kbps so it's the closest to lossless... But why are you buying a Bluetooth Device for lossless when you know Bluetooth doesn't have a lossless codec yet... Anyway you'd not notice the difference anyhow... Also why are you not using Apple Music on an Apple device when they have actually true lossless not the MQA scam that Tidal sells

I'd be curious to know what the exterior Amazon ASIN label showed.

Right now you can order a Shoyeido leaf incense holder in desert sage, and receive one in red crimson. Near as I can tell all of the boxes labeled desert sage contain crimson. I tried exchanging my crimson leaves for the correct item twice, was told to keep the last one AND refunded for the purchase. Free red crimson leaf.

Even if you did the thing where you tried to correct the order, chances are you'd just open-box however many of the same item and then eventually get them for free. Amazon is magical.

What differentiates the K9 Pro ESS to the RME ADI-2, besides app vs screen EQ?

Since everyone has said what I would have said, I would like to add that one difference is the distortion produced by the driver, a cheap 40mm driver in a random amazon headphone usually will distort a lot of the sounds. This can be caused by both the damping of the headphone, and the driver itself and how it has been designed. This would make the sound much less detailed, and dull. There are also “reflections” that a headphone designer would have to take care of, and that is not something you can fix with eq. This can be the foam in the front of the driver, or the foam on the back of the driver. Another major difference is the excursion of the driver, something like a focal clear will have a high excursion driver that would make it have a very dynamic sound, while something like a hd600 wouldn’t sound all that dynamic in comparison. In summary yes there are physical differences, just like how you could have 2 camera lenses made both of glass, one might be super distorted and mess up edges, while the other might be crystal clear.

I mean it is a bit of an ignorant post. A little bit research would answer OP's questions.

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You also have to consider that people will force themselves to believe they hear significant differences because they purchased hundreds of dollars worth of headphones and dont want it to go to waste

I see the bandaid

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My mood and potentially wallet as I don't make a lot

One side of it fell from the band naturally after about 1.5 years and it's not like it's possible to just put it back so I had to use dumb ways to keep it there which caused top of headband to degrade eventually.