Well ASR is beyond retarded... so take that with a tonne of salt. I have the Drop version and they are fine... nothing special but well worth the 100$ they sold at there.
2-3W or so? That is very much on the low side but it always depends on overall system gain and how loud you listen. A Stax SRD-7 Mk2 should work as the ratio on those is on the high side.
With no inside pics it is hard to tell but I had the Mk1 and it was utter trash and dangerous to the end user. There are pics here somewhere of that but yeah, utter garbage
You are supposed to bend the arcs on the 007 to get the perfect fit so perhaps that is the issue or they are a bit loose? Please don't use anything but JIS screwdrivers on these or you will utterly destroy the screws.
If they can fix the QC issues everybody is talking about, then I'm hyped. I never had issues with my sets but then again... I don't use them all that much.
The L500 pads are virtually the same, a bit thicker but it won't change much. Same for the L700 pads but they will both also melt away. I always use the all leather pads from China now, cheaper and much better quality but you need to get them onto the plastic mounting plate from the original pads... which is a bit of a pain
Yeah, this is shockingly bad. Why they didn't just adapt the many headbands on the market in China is beyond me. The CD3000/R10 units are very well made from the right supplier.