If you are want a budget studio-ish headphone delivered to your door for $20, for a limited time, the Monoprice website is offering the new condition Modern Retro closed-back over-ears for $20 with free standard US shipping. Up to twenty pairs per customer at the sale price. It averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 150+ customer reviews at the Monoprice website and it has plenty of answered questions over there…
Keep in mind, despite the hype train, this is not a miracle/magic headphone. As reviewer Greg D. puts it,
“but I was hoping for a $200 sound in a $22 headphone”
If this looks familiar, it is probably because it looks like it has common ancestry with their Samson and Superlux cousins. And as fate would have it, we have a text and pictures unboxing of the Samson SR-850 which is a semi-open.
BOTE that this has a long-ass cable [yes, that’s a technical term], around 10 feet…
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