# Guilty pleasure gear pics
**URL:** https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244
**Category:** Gear Pics
**Tags:** guilty-pleasure, pictures, pics
**Created:** [June 26, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244 "2020-06-26T15:28:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@frkasper](https://forum.headphones.com/u/frkasper)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/1 "2020-06-26T15:28:53Z")
Placeholder for sharing pictures of your current or ultimate guilty pleasure headphone(s).
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### Author:  [@frkasper](https://forum.headphones.com/u/frkasper)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/2 "2020-06-26T15:29:47Z")
Allow me to debut this thread by sharing this one, bought almost 10 years ago (July 2011). Still rocking. Stock headband and ear cups are long gone as expected.
Great all arounder. Literally disappears in my head. Tonally to my taste but boxy sound.
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### Author:  [@Salty](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Salty)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/3 "2020-06-26T17:48:50Z")
Sonic Perfection . . .
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### Author:  [@frkasper](https://forum.headphones.com/u/frkasper)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/4 "2020-06-26T21:12:26Z")
> [@Salty](#):
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> Sonic Perfection . . .
Where is the guilt here? What am I missing? đ
I should probably fill the thread description with what guilty pleasure means. Help appreciated here, @TylersEclectic. This is actually something I hear a lot in your shows. Thanks much!
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### Author:  [@ProfFalkin](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ProfFalkin)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/5 "2020-06-26T22:49:33Z")
Something you shouldnât enjoy very much because it deviates from the ideal or norm. Despite that, you derive pleasure from it anyway.
Like bathing in a tub full of childrenâs tears. Itâs horrible, yet so good.
Or so Iâve heard.
Nevermind.
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### Author:  [@frkasper](https://forum.headphones.com/u/frkasper)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/6 "2020-06-27T01:11:49Z")
My take â in a headphone context, of course â was something like: _if this sound so good to me why there are so many bad reviews out there?_
In my Bose picture though, I tried to show the heresy part of it. Itâs kind of a sin in the audiophile world. đ
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### Author:  [@ProfFalkin](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ProfFalkin)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/7 "2020-06-27T01:16:19Z")
Yes. Letâs go with that.
I play way to much Cards Againt Humanity.
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### Author:  [@frkasper](https://forum.headphones.com/u/frkasper)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/8 "2020-06-27T02:34:27Z")
hahaha. I had a few different readings as well. None of them were probably relevant to this forum.
Still waiting for @TylersEclecticâs input. Heâs probably the political arm on this thread and his big purple heart should help clearing things up.
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### Author:  [@TylersEclectic](https://forum.headphones.com/u/TylersEclectic)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/9 "2020-06-27T04:38:21Z")
I think the Bose is an appropriate guilty pleasureâŠin the audio worldâŠI think I would have to shut this thread down if we opened up âguilty pleasuresâ outside of the audio world thoughâŠ
@ProfFalkin and your description of audio guilty pleasure are exactly inline with my thinking on itâŠ
My guilty pleasure headphone is the Campfire Audio CascadesâŠI think they are fun and work great with a bunch of my portable stuffâŠI take them on most of the trips I go on⊠but most people donât like them for being âbass boysâ but I personally donât find them overbearing;) well they do put bass/lows on a pedestal⊠=)
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### Author:  [@Salty](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Salty)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/10 "2020-06-27T21:54:15Z")
Youâre not missing anything. I saw the photo and posted quickly . . Consider it a not guilty pleasure!! đ đ
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### Author:  [@Pharmaboy](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Pharmaboy)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/11 "2020-06-28T17:22:04Z")
> [@ProfFalkin](#):
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> Like bathing in a tub full of childrenâs tears
âPaging Dr. Bruno Betelheim. You have a call on the black courtesy phoneâ
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### Author:  [@Pharmaboy](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Pharmaboy)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/12 "2020-06-28T17:30:20Z")
My guilty pleasure is any of the clones of the iSK MDH9000 closed back headphones. Iâve owned 4 pairs of various clones, gave away 3/kept one. My favorite of them is the Marantz MPH-2.
This is ChiFi at its best: inexpensive (my MPH-2s cost $50), comfortable, musical, with very ear-friendly treble, a punchy (tho elevated) bass, and shockingly good soundstaging for a closed back.
I use these + the humble-but-good FiiO e10K amp/DAC when I travel.
Every time I put these on, Iâm filled with doubtâŠhow could they possibly sound good compared to a ZMF Ori, Aeolus, HD650, others? Then I relaxâthey sound very pleasing, just as I remember.
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### Author:  [@AudioTool](https://forum.headphones.com/u/AudioTool)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/13 "2020-06-30T23:12:56Z")
amidoinitrite?
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### Author:  [@Paladin](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Paladin)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/14 "2020-08-18T16:56:35Z")
   
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### Author:  [@frkasper](https://forum.headphones.com/u/frkasper)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/15 "2020-08-18T17:40:13Z")
Really nice carpentry work. Did you do this yourself? đ đ đ
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### Author:  [@Paladin](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Paladin)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/16 "2020-08-18T17:51:48Z")
Absolutely, that is honey locust in the first few photos and rainbow poplar in another. I designed and built the amps as well.
This one I did in walnut, maple, and brushed copper for a gentleman on this site, @FLTWS.
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### Author:  [@driftingbunnies](https://forum.headphones.com/u/driftingbunnies)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/17 "2020-12-03T03:29:16Z")
Everyone has been hating on me cause Iâve been loving these but they do something special with Japanese music. Tuned specifically for Sony Music Japan in 1980âs and still going strong.
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### Author:  [@LittleCans](https://forum.headphones.com/u/LittleCans)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/19 "2021-01-13T13:15:02Z")
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### Author:  [@Audiophool](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Audiophool)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/21 "2021-04-10T15:50:27Z")
Oh man, I really want to hear these !!! Was down to these or the Mest Mkii for my first major IEM and I pulled the trigger on the Mest Mkii today. These may be nextâŠjust wish there was someplace I could audition gear at where I am to be sure I can fit them.
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### Author:  [@LittleCans](https://forum.headphones.com/u/LittleCans)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2021, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/guilty-pleasure-gear-pics/7244/22 "2021-04-11T07:48:23Z")
> [@Audiophool](#):
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> just wish there was someplace I could audition gear at where I am to be sure I can fit them
Yeah deffo worth trying first due to possible fit issues, funnily enough I bought mine without demoâing them off Amazon UK so I wouldâve been able to return them if I had any issues but lo and behold theyâre a perfect fit for me 4+ hour listening sessions no probsâŠ
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Theyâre my endgame set, hope you enjoy your MEST mk2 just as much đ»
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