Marco Arment

Just to be clear, I love the old Beyerdynamic shape, which was the 770s, the 880s, the 990s.

They all use the same yoke, the same kind of driver ear cup shape.

They all use it, and it fits me very well, and I find it very comfortable for long spans.

That being said, these are not headphones that I enjoy a lot of music on because...

frankly they're they they were great for the time that they came out which is a very long time ago but we've gotten a lot better since this like headphone design has gotten way more sophisticated headphone drivers have gotten way more detailed way nicer so these like for the time they came out and for their relatively inexpensive like 150 ish dollar cost most of the time they sound great for that but we can do a lot better now we have

So they don't sound good enough for music for me.

So I don't listen to music on these.

I also, for my podcasting use, I much prefer a different pair of ear pads that actually they come with the DT 1770, which is a newer model that I really did not like.

But I love their ear pads, and you can buy them separately.

So you can order from Germany the Beyerdynamic EDT 1770D ear pads, which are like a memory foam pleather kind of thing.

And I find they are a substantial upgrade to the 770s in both comfort and a little bit in sound quality.

So I use these.

Yeah, because especially, you know, this was like Beard Dynamics, like standard round earpad.

They've made a lot of different headphone models over the years that have that exact ear cup shape.

So there's a lot of like aftermarket and different earpads you can put on and everything.

So that's what I do for podcasting.

For music, my main music headphone when I'm at my desk is still the Hi-Fi Man HE6, which is positively ancient by today's standards.

I think it came out in like, I don't know,

2011 or something it's a very old headphone at this point i've not found anything that i like more there are a lot of high-end headphones these days that are that cost way more like i think it was about eleven hundred or a thousand dollars when it was new modern flagship headphones are well above three thousand dollars now oh i have never found anything in that range that i liked better than these that being said i haven't looked in a long time um so that's my high-end music headphone however

I really hardly ever wear them anymore because I usually am using speakers to listen to music at my desk these days.