Mono is one I'm curious about. Years ago had a modded m1060. Sound was great but by a country mile the worst built headphones I've ever seen. Nothing that would break, the parts felt durable, but it just felt like the absolute cheapest possible "sturdy" build where yes things are metal and wood and so on, but it feels so poorly distributed weight wise. Feels like a piece of string with 2.5lb weights on each end, just the worst most uncomfortable headphone I've ever wore. Earpads were great but I literally couldn't even look down at my phone without them falling off.

DCA has good QC the most common complaints I hear is that their "resolution" or sound retrieval whatever you want to call it, isn't particularly great for its price range, and that they have a low dynamic range.

Why do people act like every redditor has a industrial warehouse for a room? You put the speakers up, and face them towards you. Congrats, you're done. If you're dropping huge money, sure you could go above and beyond. But what is this laughable comparison I see here where if things aren't PERFECT then speakers are shit. Do you guys warn people away from Open Backs because hey guys there's noise outside so they're worthless right?

They are though, that's the point. Speakers scale linear with money invested. A $500 pair will absolutely shit on a $100 pair. A $1000 pair will shit on a $500 pair. A $10000 pair will dump on a $8000 set, and so on.

The sky is the literal limit. You could drop $100k on a audio setup and that isn't even scratching the surface of what the tech is capable of.

Headphones? Is there really anything worth 3x the MSRP of a HD800s? Does anything really sound 4x better than a LCD-X? Plenty of options in that range though. Headphones top out immediately in comparison to speakers, like it's not even close. There's a reason you can spend around $1000 for a headphone and you get pretty close to "max performance". Above that you're paying for build quality and creature comforts usually. You don't need a Orpheus to experience high end, there's not a world of difference between a $500 headphones and a $1000, nor a $1000 and a $2000. Plenty of people unironically prefer a 6xx over a $4000 Abyss. Nobody does that with speakers because every penny spent is put towards superior performance. Know how many options we have in the headphone and iem market under say, $300? I would compare a similar amount of options and performance gain on the table for speakers in the maybe 1-$2000 range.

You could drop $10k on a speaker setup and you're still not even close to high end equipment. In terms of "ability" my $200 JBL 530s blow my old LCD-X out the fucking water, so much more capable

JBL 530s refurbished were $200, amp and cables and whatnot another $75. Absolutely shits on my old Sundaras, genuinely not even in the same realm.

I enjoy my blessing 2s for music but for certain aspects of music, not to mention movies, games, media, etc, it's not even close. I'm sorry but there's no headphone that can replace feeling Bass in my entire upper body when at my PC.