PickledFish
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I bought a pair direct from Amazon and they came with a cloth/nylon (with velvety interior) bag, instead of the classic vinyl bag.
Everything else is about them is legit from what I can tell. The plastic on the box IS an insert, but is secured to the box at the front/bottom, all the packaging is very neat, the Sony logo is a sticker (this is the black box 2014 version), the STUDIO MONITOR on the box is in shiny silver text. There is a sticker over the original UPC with a new UPC, however.
The headphones themselves look legit from what I could see. They have conical drivers (I didn't unscrew them to see the serial number, so not sure there). The only things I could point out were the stitching on the headband was about .5mm too thin, the STUDIO HEADPHONE text on top of the headband doesn't appear as a shiny silver (it's a matte silver/gray instead - but not sure if that's an MDR-V6 thing or just a MDR-7506 thing), and the dot-matrix font on the earcup stickers (where is says DIGITAL) as printed as squares (not sure if that's supposed to be squares or dots?).
The only thing is, there's no vinyl bag. Just a cloth bag.
But it doesn't make sense because the newer gold packaging still has the vinyl bag. Why would the black box version have a cloth bag?
Some people are reporting the MDR-V7506 is now coming with a cloth bag as well. Anyone know?
Everything else is about them is legit from what I can tell. The plastic on the box IS an insert, but is secured to the box at the front/bottom, all the packaging is very neat, the Sony logo is a sticker (this is the black box 2014 version), the STUDIO MONITOR on the box is in shiny silver text. There is a sticker over the original UPC with a new UPC, however.
The headphones themselves look legit from what I could see. They have conical drivers (I didn't unscrew them to see the serial number, so not sure there). The only things I could point out were the stitching on the headband was about .5mm too thin, the STUDIO HEADPHONE text on top of the headband doesn't appear as a shiny silver (it's a matte silver/gray instead - but not sure if that's an MDR-V6 thing or just a MDR-7506 thing), and the dot-matrix font on the earcup stickers (where is says DIGITAL) as printed as squares (not sure if that's supposed to be squares or dots?).
The only thing is, there's no vinyl bag. Just a cloth bag.
But it doesn't make sense because the newer gold packaging still has the vinyl bag. Why would the black box version have a cloth bag?
Some people are reporting the MDR-V7506 is now coming with a cloth bag as well. Anyone know?