Haha yes. That’s the #1 selling point in regards to the 177x cable replacement. And that’s how he hooks you! I had no intention of setting up all of my headphones with balanced cables until this guy came along
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Glad you’re happy with them! That little cable for the Ear Studio looks like it worked out great! Really cool set up.
Making all these cables for the 177x makes me feel like I should own a pair…
<3 Working on your order today, small chance it goes out tomorrow, but for sure Monday. Will send pics
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Nice, hope you enjoy them👍
Just curious do you think they change much from balanced to unbalanced?
would also be interested in the comparison
very cool blue @brux
Because of the adapter we wrote about…
got it from the same I got the rest of the chain to match the braided thing and colours
But later this year I order your adapter box + a balanced cable for my next headphones- not sure yet which it will be
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I really haven’t had a chance to compare yet!! Only listened in balanced so far. I’ll see if I can post my thoughts after I get more time on them.
That sounds good! Let me know!
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Posting this here since it’s more appropriate for discussion than the what did you buy today thread.
Weirdly FedEx delivered my Drop DT 177X on Sunday. First impression? WTF did I buy, no the treble on these is not tamed at all! Treble is the preponderance of everything I hear! Ugh. Gonna have to break these in for like a week at high volume to see where the wind up.
If they don’t warm up quite a bit I think they’ll get a for sale ad PDQ. Man, all I wanted was a decent quality closed cans in the $350 dollar neighborhood.
I’ll report back in a week I guess.
Edit: on the other hand, the build on theme is SOLID! They are light and very comfortable. Sundaras wish they came with this kind of build quality.
Update, all hope is not lost. I played them for about 12 hours in loud AF mode. I used the box the Dekoni perf sheepskin pads I ordered for it as a sound muffle. The headphone clamped on the box just perfect to deaden most of the sound leaking, then I threw a towel over the whole thing and went to bed.
It is better today, so I’ll do the same thing again tonight see how much I can tame this beast.
I will say there are good things about it. Detail is good, they are intimate which is a new to me since all of my previous headphones are open and all featured loads of sound stage. Intimate is a nice alternative. They’re light, a lot lighter than anything else I’ve got yet the build quality is impressive for what it it and they just look like something a pro would wear.
To put my commentary into perspective, my daily and go to HPs are the Audeze LCD-2 phazored. To me, they’re the perfect balance. These 177X come in a take a huge dump all over that and force me to listen differently. I’m finding out that when I listen differently, I hear things differently. What I mean is that these place more emphasis on detail and in certain tracks are very good. Classic rock seems to shine on them. I wouldn’t say they lack bass; planars they’re not but the bass is there, it’s simply that initially the preponderance of 3k and up sound overwhelmed everything else and that’s what I believe I’m settling with the loud AF overnight burn in.
I have some ideas at so how to mod them a little bit should they require more but at least today I’m not hating on them, actually I’m looking at them with a new perspective of their possibilities.
Some commentary on the balanced cable, the cable it comes with sucks ballz. They will go back in the box, never to be taken out again. Today I’ll try to make a balanced cable for them. I realized the connector for the Audeze LCD-2 is the same four pin mini XLR these require. I bought 8 of those connectors (Neutrik) and have 6 left so I’ll use one. I’ve got good Canare cable which is my go to for all of the cables I make. I bought 75 feet about two years ago and still have a lot of cable left. Just need to dig up or cannibalize a Neutrik 4 pin XLR from something I’m no longer using, or just wait until the ones I ordered yesterday get here. Depend on how impatient I get. Might as well wind up waiting to do another couple of night’s worth of burn in.
So chin up, maybe, just maybe I didn’t piss away $375. BTW the Drop purchase was $380 but with a $25 discount on top of that which is not worded very well in the drop, but apparently the $25 dollar discount applies not just for the THX amp pairing.
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Kinda want to pick up a pair and swap on the Amiron alcantara pads and tuning foam for fun and see if it makes a noticeable difference. Not really treble sensitive but am curious.
Has anyone ever done a direct comparison between these and the MMX300? I’ve got a friend on the office who has a pair, and I like them a lot. Just curious if the extra $$$ for these gets you more detail and cleaner bass?
I swapped the stock pads for the perforated Brainwavez and never looked back. Tamed the sound significantly and now are really comfortable.I like the connectors and strain relief on the cable, but the cable itself is a little too plastic feeling. It needs to be a tiny bit thicker and 75% softer. I have a Hart cable on order.
The first day I got my Drop THX amp, they were the only headphones I had at work to listen with and I found the treble too harsh, but they sound great with a warmer amp, IMO.
I hope they settle in for you.
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I’d imagine the 177X would win hands down depending on what you’re looking for. I assume the MMX300 share similar drivers with the DT770, DT880, & DT990 line over the newer DT1990 & DT1770 line of headphones. If you look at the general consensus and reviews the newer line beats out the older line in terms of sound quality. If you line up all the headphones by spec the MMX300 matches the DT770 more so than the the DT1770.
Yes, and also better staging, otherwise they do sound like beyers.
Sperimentin’ cause I don’t think I’ll make it over the finish line otherwise. Currently with the gold center shield removed and the snowflake in place seems to be the sweet spot. Did try about a half dozen other configs. Thankfully the pad allows for easy testing on the outside and if I want to further listen, I move it inside between the pad liner and the polymer lip insert. They seem to stay in there pretty well despite the contortioning needed to get them in.
That’s interesting, is that piece of foam that you applied the gold dot to the default tuning foam that came with the 177X? those look like the exact ones on my Amiron Wireless.
Yeap, stock thicker in the middle by twice.
How do those mods change the sound signature?
what I feel is entirely too much treble in what otherwise is a pretty decent can. I grew up modding an M1060 so everything I know about changing sound signature is self taught by trial and error and with the understanding that you’ll never turn that Honda Civic into an M series BMW but you can certainly improve the handling and power a bit to lessen the chasm. 
In this case I’ve tried 2mm light spongy foam. I used crafts felt that you buy at AC Moore, I used thick cloth and I had various sized mylar discs. Hell in the modding community people try paper towels or toilet paper. The reality is that everything you put and where you put it in between a driver and your ear changes the tuning in some way shape or fashion.
In this case I’m luck because I’m trying to take away or filter if you will sound in a certain part of the spectrum. In modding, taking away is much easier than adding; because (see Honda/BMW comparison above) First part of the trial and error is finding a material or combination of materials that dampen the right frequency you want to target. Once you find that you can remove material to take away less. In this case, an entire felt cutout took away too much. So I started taking away material until I found a balance I liked. The snowflake effect is good because you can take away some and then come back and repeat cuts to take away some more if needed. I started out with something that looked like a radioactive symbol and worked from there.
So far I think I’m in the neighborhood of something I can live with. My only goal here was to get something I can crank up and enjoy during late nights when my wife would otherwise tell me to turn that shit down if I was wearing open backs.
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I used one of my wife’s cotton disc makeup remover pads to tame the treble a but in my T5P. May want to give it a try.
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Pantyhose, makeup pads. I’m actually surprised there aren’t more women in this hobby
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