Customer Ratings & Reviews

All measurements used are the sole property of Farsil The Wizard and were used with express permission therein. Modifications were done in collaboration with Farsil The Wizard. Initial findings: Poor design lead to phase inconsistencies regardless of how one were to plug them up. The included measurements were of the last sets of measurements performed, which include the correction's resultant effect. Prior measurements were not included due to my desire to keep things more succinct & easier to interpret. Post modification findings: Post basic modification and over 13 measurements to confirm our/my suspicions we/I were able to achieve single entry phase and frequency cohesion across the gamut, within reason. Minimal effects to the perceived clarity and/or distortion have been noted. This is why single entry headphones should always and forever be permanently banned. Our findings suggest that unless extreme lengths are taken to ensure cohesive & even delivery of the signal. Inverted polarity and/or incoherent phase will always, ALWAYS be an issue... Philips Fidelio X2HR are an example of this. Post mod findings cont'd: (3-4 of 5 star acoustic value) The phase cohesion now being put behind us, I shall speak as to my findings, that I have personally observed. They have a somewhat set aback stage presentation with decent enough detailing given the price point. Not the best tonality but honestly not the worst. I have found some iems that would likely serve a significantly better purpose for mixing, given their tonal accuracy. But should you not be someone that tolerates iems or you just outright prefer over ears? Well that's where these come in. These will get you started in the mixing world, their design, again post fix, should allow for a quite good sound all things being fair for the price range. Although the weird part is even though they have slots for dual entry they're intrinsically single ended headphones. Good jerb Rode... ya screwed the pooch and were just stupid, rather than malicious or lazy! But it gets a bit better, they at least realized the change of one being plugged in versus the other would cause a pressure differential. So they included an easy to lose and wholly mandatory tuning cap for the non used side. DON'T, LOSE, IT!.. IT ISN'T FOR DUST PREVENTION IT'S PART OF THE TUNING!!!!!! The locking connection has a rubber housing on the inside that helps to partially seal the in use side. Right, back to topic... I digress, the apparent tuning is that of a perceived neutral-esque quality. Somewhat well reaching in both directions but ultimately limited by their driver selection and tuning selection. Well, driver tuning selection, there is absolutely zero internal tuning on the insides of the cups. Realistically you're paying less for the sound and far, far more for the build... Speaking of, The build all in all is quite gracious for the price. Honestly some of the most well build headphones I own, given I have STAX, Ether CX, ATH-R70X, HFMxDrop Edition XX, Audeze LCD2 Classic (open), and so on... these are some of the "better" sounding and SOMETIMES significantly more well built headphones out there. And for under 200usd? That's quite hard to argue... Farsil is currently attempting to contact Rode to ascertain a statement and/or issue corrective measures to their headphones. He has a discord server set up in order to allow contact with him. Which can be located through his YT channel. I was told to throw that mention out there, due to the issues with these heapdhones and how complicated it's been to get into Rode proper. (AUS company)

The first earpiece adjustment broke almost immediately, the second one broke at least 2 years later. Aside from that, the sound is absolutely amazing.