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Vulture Culture vs. The Budget Headphone Rumble: ATH-R30x Under Fire

The headphone market is a jungle, and Vulture Culture just parachuted in with the Audio-Technica ATH-R30x—a supposed reference can for less than the price of a Friday night out. Is this open-back upstart a secret weapon for broke producers, or just more plastic landfill fodder? In classic Vulture Culture fashion, we get a no-nonsense A/B shootout, frequency graph autopsy, and some real talk about what matters when you’re mixing on a shoestring. If you think you can’t get critical with cheap cans, think again. This is the kind of review that slices through the hype and leaves only the raw

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