Monoprice Semi Open Back Over Ear Wired Headphone Review
I had to double-check the name of this headphone three times before writing it up there in the title. Yes, this is really the name that Monoprice went with for this headphone. It’s printed on both the box and online store listings, and it’s one of the most hilarious and generic names I’ve ever seen for an audio product. It’s as much a description as a name — and it also totally ignores that this is actually a re-badged version of a headphone that made the rounds years ago then fell off the market.
Takstar is an OEM manufacturer with factories in China and Vietnam. If you’ve ever used a HyperX Cloud II gaming headset or one of its many variants, you were actually listening to a tweaked Takstar Pro 80 headphone. OEMs regularly work with outside firms to redesign and customize products and manufacture them through working business partnerships. But they also often sell their own product lines, usually in retail spaces in China and online.
The Takstar Pro 80 is named as such because it’s a clone of the Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro’s 80 Ohm version, and it actually does a pretty good job of copying that classic studio pair performance-wise. Its sculpted signature also makes it a fun gaming headphone, hence HyperX’s…
