Thanks for the reply. I don't know much about all the history with VSX but I do know a bit about asian manufacturing and how you can choose an off the shelf product and work with a company to customize it to your needs and have them make it for you. We are talking usually 1/10th or less of the sale price.dark water wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 7:36 am ^^ if you can, get those Asian headphones (they seem pretty cheap?) and report back here.
You might have a good point and it would be interesting to learn more about them from a KVR member.
I'll let bmanic answer for himself, but in fairness, I doubt he could care less about your ultimate preference of headphones. He seems pretty happy (as am I and as are many others) with Slate VSX.
Each to their own tastes...
Undoubtedly, there is an element of marketing hype with Slate (who has previous form of hype...) but the only two weaknesses that I have read about, but not experienced, regarding Slate VSX is the phasing sound in Oct-Dec 2020 of some of the rooms (and this issue has now been fixed with an update), and a very small percentage of the physical headphones snapping due to a sub-quality production run of some early headphones (and Slate has been excellent in posting replacement headphones to the few people who suffered this physical breakage issue).
Imho, they would be expensive for just headphones at around £500 (and I wouldn't buy them if they were just headphones).
But tbf they are instead a whole system that is very comparable with the price point of monitors etc.
If you are going to buy the whole Slate VSX mixing system then you will get the Slate headphones included.
It would be interesting to see how well swapping out the Slate headphones for your Asian headphones would allow the whole Slate VSX mixing system to still function or not.
Slate VSX won't appeal to everyone but they do have very decent feedback from users (including many professional mixing / mastering engineers).
You pays your money and takes your chance.
As put above, if you prefer to try out those Asian headphones, many of us would be interested to find out what you discover.
The thing that makes me wary of Slate in terms of this is the fact that VMS was touted to only work with the preamp at first and then they changed their story after the fact. Not to mention the emulations work with any clean microphone very well and sometimes sound even better. This makes me curious about buying someones extra license to try out with 3rd party headphones and see what happens.
That being said, if the headphones themselves were really good quality like audio technica or Beyerdynamic, I'd be much more inclined to buy. I want them to feel substantial and not feel cheap which seems to be the consensus.