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Lelouch25 t1_j4lgctd wrote

LOL you guys realize Hifiman probably sell millions of headphones while Audeze sells maybe in the tens of thousands.

I daily Sundara and Monolith M1060C and M1070s. This 'build' quality issue is blown out of proportions.

Most of us wouldn't of gotten to try planar without those 2 companies...

I'm actually very grateful to them as they've changed the industry for good. Look at 3 year old reviewer comparison videos, they'd often go from $300 to $800 then to couple of thousand dollar headphones.

Now we can experience all sorts of planar well below $300s range. That's entry level price.

Realize majority of Americans make less than $50k. And you really come to understand cheap Chinese headphones likely make up the majority of new listeners in this hobby.

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69001001011 t1_j4lqddx wrote

Massively over estimating the number of audiophile headphones that get sold

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Lelouch25 t1_j4luri7 wrote

oh yeah I was wondered that too.

Using Amazon's ranked number of a Hifiman Sundara within the category of electronics, Scopes estimates 3090 of them are sold per month.

Given that Hifiman have multiple lines of cheap headphones and that they operate around the world. I think millions could very well be the case.

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spartaman64 t1_j4mtl5y wrote

maybe if you include the china market but i dont think those people would be making posts on reddit

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StarWarder t1_j4nnecm wrote

Completely incorrect. It’s definitely the other way around. Audeze has probably sold more Mobius and Penrose headphones than Hifiman’s entire lineup. Mobius was being sold retail at Microcenter. Maxwell for Xbox 360 is sold out until March. Audeze literally can’t make these headphones fast enough. When I talked to Sankar at CanJam he said getting into the consumer level completely transformed the company.

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Lelouch25 t1_j4nomii wrote

Fair enough, that's something I haven't considered. Looking at the rankings of Mobius it's very close to that of Sundara sale's estimates.

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