What is different in the Sony MDR-R10’s that makes one bass heavy and one bass light?Frankie, this is with regards to the vintage headphone MDR-R10 (which was around 30+ years ago and rare these days).
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What is different in the Sony MDR-R10’s that makes one bass heavy and one bass light?
Sony only ever made 2,000 of these headphones. The first few hundreds are now colloquially called “bass light” simply because after a few years Sony retuned the headphones to emphasize bass a bit more (to match market demands) which because colloquially called “bass heavy” by future users.
You can tell which is which by the serial number (I can’t recall from memory the serial number cut off, but if you’re ever faced with the dilemma, it’s a simple one - if you see one that you can buy, whatever it is, get it if you are able to)
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