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MadMakIII t1_j1lft8g wrote

Reply to comment by jeeper173 in Simple. Yet beautiful... by jeeper173

I’ve got the same Christmas present, love them! Which Dac do you use? I’m on Hidizs S9 Pro, very good with iPad usb-c, but lacks of power with iPhone because of lightning limitations. Still very happy of these cans. Enjoy them!

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sverek t1_j1leeoa wrote

Reply to Any major predictions for enhancements to headphones for 2023? by ostuniman

Headphones are not GPU or something that evolving each year. It is not about having more fps, but finding the sound signature that you like. It is done by researching different tunings and further EQ headphones.

HD600 which were released over 20 years ago are still popular headphones to this day, and way more popular that HD660s.

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DreamDropDistancia t1_j1l9ri1 wrote

Reply to comment by elementIdentity in Most unreliable AMP I’ve ever owned - DROP THX AAA 789 by uqil

You don't have data to determine the scope/range of the data you do have... so you're just going to go ahead and take the data you do have as fact/the whole picture, and call it a day?

We don't know, therefore we should not accept the negative reviews as representative of a good cross section of the population.

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Anyway, the number is approx.15,600.

"22.7K requests·15.6k Sold·" -drop.com

So, if you've actually seen more than 156 reports of failure, then I guess don't buy one.

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frobroj t1_j1l8j6z wrote

Reply to Simple. Yet beautiful... by jeeper173

Great cans! I have bought many since I got my Sundaras but I still throw them on every once in a while and go "Wow!". They are magic in a bottle to be sure. Enjoy all your music all over again! Happy Holidays!

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DreamDropDistancia t1_j1l4q76 wrote

Reply to Most unreliable AMP I’ve ever owned - DROP THX AAA 789 by uqil

I can almost guarantee you, if you actually asked "How many of you have no problems with yours", you're going to get more stories of a good time being had, than you are going to get stories of failures, using your post as-is.

Products that reach consumers rarely have as high of a failure rate as social media/bad reporting bias would lead you to believe. It's some small number of units, for any product, ever, that sees failures. If a product sells a million units, and a different product sells ten units, and there's a 1% failure rate across both products, you'll never see a single complaint about the rare product, but you'll see ten thousand complaints about the popular product - despite the failure rate being the same*.*

I bought my 789, used, on Ebay. I've only had it for a month - if it explodes into a billion pieces, I'll let you know.

And then I'll probably fix it or something.

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DreamDropDistancia t1_j1l44ku wrote

Reply to comment by elementIdentity in Most unreliable AMP I’ve ever owned - DROP THX AAA 789 by uqil

No, but reporting bias is, however, related to the total number of experiences/devices in the wild, in general.

So, if you have a very popular, very hyped, relatively inexpensive, "pretty much end-game" amp that, say, 100,000 people buy, and you compare it to an amp that only 10,000 bought, and 0.1% have problems, you might hear 100 bad stories of the popular device, and only 10 bad stories about the less common device.

So, let me ask you: do you know how many 789s are out there?

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