Does China make fake Sony MDR headphones?
Just curious, because there’s Sony MDR 7506 cans on ebay for $55 but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that the fact that they’re coming from “China” has me worried that they’re fakes.
Yes they do and you can bet those are fake. They make fake sony 700s, 7506s, v6s, pioneer hdj-1000s. Hell there are even some really convincing fake HDJ-2000s with cast metal frames and hinges on ebay.
Thanks. Guess I’ll just pay more to get them from an American seller. The price definitely seemed too good to be true.
thread/nickname coherence. lol
I knew that would come up. I should know better than anyone else right?
China makes knock offs of EVERYTHING BTW.
why is it people selling fakes like that still get 100% positive feedback on ebay?
watch out for mdr700’s especially as they are discontinued
one of the reasons I went with Sennheiser instead. i heard that they had been discontinued, and had heard the same thing from my local store since I wanted to try a pair as they still had them on their website. that lead me to think that some other reputable suppliers who were selling them on their website might not be the genuine article, and so I decided not to bother and instead go with the HD25’s, which I must say I do not regret one bit.
there is something on google/youtube on how to spot a genuine mdr700, but it’s really only of much use if you can see the headphones in person before buying. i would perhaps look on gumtree or craigslist possibly, and pick up a decent pair used which you can see in person (assuming they do not live too far away) if you really want them that bad.
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.
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.
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 
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.
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.
Beat me to it.
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.
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!
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.
$200 is a pretty big stretch…Unless you were first in line back in the mid 90’s.
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.