Also, wow I haven't seen this wordpress theme in 10 years, it used to be my favorite!
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/fostex-t50rp-incremental-mod...
The site is now memorialized below but has a wealth of information.
Those reviews helped me get some excellent bang for the buck headphones years ago.
On the topic of trustworthy review sites, especially for headphones, I thought rtings.com is the standard. Detailed data-driven reviews and supposedly crowd-funded. What do people think about rtings?
Noise cancelling headphones and IEMs are better than reviews make it sound due to this.
I get this with speakers but how are any of these valid with headphones?
¹ E.g. Spring hinges, nose pads.
Source: https://www.headphonesty.com/2023/02/bone-conduction-sunglas...