Does China make fake Sony MDR headphones?

[The Mighty FV]

5 years ago my then-housemate bought the same headphones for the same price - they are absolutely awful fakes; hard leather, bad sound quality and an overall feeling of piss-poor build. Steer clear.

[Fango Jett]

A good advice: Don't buy the fake ones. You can think you buy the same for a cheaper price, but the quality of fake headphones isn't good. So you won't regret it to buy real, good headphone's

[deevey]

In a nutshell ..

YES!

There are knockoffs of 7506, Mdr-V6, v700's

You can generally tell by the packaging and their are vids on youtube on how to tell if you've been scammed.

Because probably the people buying stuff for dirt cheap from China don't expect to get the real deal. Fake doesn't necessarily mean bad, there's a lot of decent fake stuff out there.

There are knockoffs of

• Sony
• Pioneer
• Technics
• AKG
• Beats
• Shure

All the Above Headphones sound utterly crap with the exception of the powered beats studio, build quality is actually surprisingly good on all, but cosmetic imperfections on all of them.

However their knockoffs of

• Beats in-ear
• Sennehiser In-Ear

CAN be actually quite decent - but I would NEVER buy a pair online, I would always test before buying.

In an old post ages ago I'd decided to buy a pair of beats Tour knockoffs, basically because they sounded decent for my iPod and were ridiculously inexpensive and sounded better than a $10 set headphones from anyone else.

BUT I went through about 15 sets of them in a local electronics market until i found a set that did not have any defects, issues with the sound, all the correct accessories (earbud sizes, cable types etc).

I HAVE tried all the knockoffs of the sonys, pioneers,over ears and all were shitty+1.

[Mike_08]

China makes knock offs of EVERYTHING BTW.

Beat me to it.

[tokenasianguy]

China makes knock offs of EVERYTHING BTW.

I was a bit puzzled by this because these headphones are such an inexpensive item.

[deevey]

I was a bit puzzled by this because these headphones are such an inexpensive item.

Did I just miss something ?... I'd hardly call $200 headphones inexpensive to the average person.

[The Mighty FV]

[*]Beats in-ear

I can vouch for this, my partner's brother bought some last month off eBay for £30 and they are actually quite good - which is both strange and a little scary haha!

[synthet1c]

beats pro cost like $650 in normal hifi shops in Australia, hd25 are $399, hdj2000 are $500... thats a lot to make from a knockoff even at a fraction of the price of the original. And headphones rarely last more than a year without glue and gaffer tape so it definately adds up to a lot over a dj career.

[tokenasianguy]

Did I just miss something ?... I'd hardly call $200 headphones inexpensive to the average person.

$200 is a pretty big stretch...Unless you were first in line back in the mid 90's.

[tokenasianguy]

beats pro cost like $650 in normal hifi shops in Australia, hd25 are $399, hdj2000 are $500... thats a lot to make from a knockoff even at a fraction of the price of the original. And headphones rarely last more than a year without glue and gaffer tape so it definately adds up to a lot over a dj career.

I can't believe you put "beats" in the same sentence as Sennheiser HD25's...Don't even get me started on beats...

Also, you might not believe this, but I've had the low-end Sony MDR-V500's for my entire DJ career (14 years). No tape, just worn out leather.