Fake Sony MDR-V700 Headphones
Buy The Equation Audio RP21 Instead.
No, but seriously, Buy the RP21’s instead. That’s my first word of advice. O.K. I got that out of my system, lets to get down to business. The Sony MDR-V700 DJ headphones are the CX300 equivalent when it comes to counterfeit headphones. The market is absolutely flooded with them. A serious word about the Equation Audio RP21 headphones though, they are simple, brilliant! And don’t let the price tag put you off (especially the UK price) these, because the retail is $149, and in the UK the retail is £99. Anyway on with the info.
head-fi.org post
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/very-good-fake-v700djs-292859/ - A must read. Contains large images.
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/possible-pair-counterfeit-mdr-v700dj-291571/ - another must read with huge images.
ebay article
http://ebay.com/reviews.ebay.ca/Sony-V700-vs-Fake-DJ-Heaphones - With pictures
http://ebay.com/Sony-Z700-Headphone-fakes
http://ebay.com/reviews.ebay.co.uk/How-To-Spot-Fake-SONY-MDR-V700DJ-Headphones
http://ebay.com/reviews.ebay.co.uk/Sony-v700-z700-so-cheap
Owners Experiences
http://forums.di.fm/showthread.php?t=83450
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/933966.html
http://askville.amazon.com/difference-sony-mdr-v700dj-z700-dj-headphones
http://djforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1041099
http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13938
Link Summary
- UK price
- http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/very-good-fake-v700djs-292859/
- http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/possible-pair-counterfeit-mdr-v700dj-291571/
- http://ebay.com/reviews.ebay.ca/Sony-V700-vs-Fake-DJ-Heaphones
- http://ebay.com/Sony-Z700-Headphone-fakes
- http://ebay.com/reviews.ebay.co.uk/How-To-Spot-Fake-SONY-MDR-V700DJ-Headphones
- http://ebay.com/reviews.ebay.co.uk/Sony-v700-z700-so-cheap
- http://forums.di.fm/showthread.php?t=83450
- http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/933966.html
- http://askville.amazon.com/difference-sony-mdr-v700dj-z700-dj-headphones
- http://djforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1041099
- http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13938
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[…] fakeheadphones.com
I think that is very simple to discover if a pair of Sony MDR-V700 it’s a fake.
You need an Iphone with SiqScopePro, and a dog.
Seriously a dog I’m not joking.
The sony headphones as many others on that price range, has and incredible frequency response, up to 30000 Hz.
The human ear maybe can notice something untill 18000 or 19000 Hz (20000 Hz in very rare cases).
Most of the headphones under 50$ can’t reproduce sounds over 18000-20000 Hz, the higher is the frequency range, the higher is the price of the headphones generally.
Higher is the frequency response of headphones or speakers, higher is the sound fidelity (if you want to know more search for Fast Fourier Transform, and the Nyquist-Shannon theory on wikipedia).
So using a tool like SiqScopePro for Iphone, you can generate a simple tone up to a frequency of 24000 Hz.
Put the plug of your supposed-to-be-fake-headphones and play that tone, you’ll ear nothing.
It’s not a joke, a human ear can’t recognize that frequency, as we said before we can listen to frequencies only under 20000 Hz.
Now it’s dog turn.
Please stop the tone from playing, and put the headphones on of your dog’s ears.
Be aware, dogs can listen to very high frequencies, and very high frequencies are really harmful at high volume!!!
Do not forget that, the dog are helping you, so you don’t need to harm its ears.
Now put the volume lower, start playng the 24000 Hz tone and gently raise the volume until the dog bark, or want to put off headphones. If this happens the headphone is not fake or at least is a good quality headphones.
If the dog hears nothing, you have bought a fake!
And what if, like me, you’re not a dog lover? Can the same test be done with a cat?