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Fostex

Wood-cup dynamic flagship headphones

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Fostex is a Japanese audio company, the consumer and pro-audio arm of Foster Electric — the OEM that historically built headphones for other brands, including Denon's wood-cupped classics. It makes studio monitors, recorders and headphones, and is best known in audiophile circles for its lacquered wood-cup dynamic flagships like the TH900 and the biodynamic Foster driver family behind them.

Founded: 1973
Based in: Tokyo, Japan

Headphone$1,400

Fostex TH900mk2

Bass, speed and lacquer that nearly everyone praises — treble, mids and hinges that nearly everyone argues about.

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Headphone$280

Fostex T50RPmk4

The modding community's favourite substrate, finally given a new driver — and reviewers still can't agree whether the stock tuning is fixed or just differently broken.

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