What are you doing Corsair? I have only ever shopped for RAM by comparing specs and price. I want affordable RAM, not merch collabs for overpriced rgb heatsinks.
there are consumers who legitimately drool over RGB
Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
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#52Drop/Massdrop had been on the way out for many years, I don't get the impression that they ever truly recovered from the transition away from the "group buy for anything" model. They were probably just barely kept afloat by the audiophile gear and keyboards.
Even worse, most of their products weren't special: - available faster from Amazon - available cheaper from AliExpress - sometimes both faster and cheaper from the manufacturer And Massdrop didn't provide exceptionally good customer service or warranties. The best thing I bought from them was a pair of JBL LSR-305 powered monitors for $180. Great bedroom speakers at about a 50% discount.
Yes, that's a good point too, I never ended up buying any of my audiophile stuff from Drop because the stuff I was interested in was usually available with faster shipping from Amazon for either the same price or only a slight price increase.
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#53Drop ran into the problem every other high quality retailer/manufacturer did before it, when you sell good enough stuff, you don't get repeat business fast enough because the original is still working, and eventually fail due to lack of new buyers to sustain the business. I'm still using my Drop CTRL keyboard from 2018. I haven't bought another keyboard since then because it's a good keyboard. Going through my order…
Wasn't that the entire premise of drop, though? Massive stock of quality, curated items. Not necessarily in a specific niche. The "what new drop is there today" is the appeal.
If it's now a glorified Amazon, who cares?
Re: Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
#54Drop ran into the problem every other high quality retailer/manufacturer did before it, when you sell good enough stuff, you don't get repeat business fast enough because the original is still working, and eventually fail due to lack of new buyers to sustain the business. I'm still using my Drop CTRL keyboard from 2018. I haven't bought another keyboard since then because it's a good keyboard. Going through my order…
Wasn't that the entire premise of drop, though? Massive stock of quality, curated items. Not necessarily in a specific niche. The "what new drop is there today" is the appeal. If it's now a glorified Amazon, who cares?
At first, the entire premise was facilitating group buying to meet manufacturer order minimums for unique or high-demand hardware, and discounts for meeting manufacturers' volume discount targets.
Then it morphed into a general specialty/niche retailer for people with keyboard, headphone, "EDC" and began to also focus on "house brand" type merch.
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#55I think I got a really cool wallet and notebook from Hand & Sew through Massdrop many years ago. The wallet is long gone but the notebook is still around with a wonderful patina. It used to be a really cool site for unique items. I stopped using it when they had a falling out with Input Club and it seems like they've just gone downhill since then.
I still daily the wallet! It's just a very simple leather card pouch but the raw leather ended up looking really nice once it wore in.
I recently discovered they're local to me but seem to only do custom items now.
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#56Drop ran into the problem every other high quality retailer/manufacturer did before it, when you sell good enough stuff, you don't get repeat business fast enough because the original is still working, and eventually fail due to lack of new buyers to sustain the business. I'm still using my Drop CTRL keyboard from 2018. I haven't bought another keyboard since then because it's a good keyboard. Going through my order…
We definitely should not be incentivizing e-waste. I think the sign of long living product is a good product.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sennheiser is basically dead too. https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/03/sennheiser-officially-d...
That was a bad acquisition and their parent company is now in a bind, but I don't see a world where they can't sell it somewhere. Hopefully it doesn't end up in private equity hell because the 600/650 line is legendary and the HDB 630 is a true leap forward.
> Hopefully it doesn't end up in private equity hell
By this time next year we'd be seeing some Chinese owned company producing "Sennheiser HD9000000000+ Pro" headphones that are leftover Shrek themed earbuds that smoke when you turn the volume up too high.
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#58I'm still sad that the Drop THX Panda never took off (planar-magnetic cans that had 3.5mm passive mode, USB audio mode, and wireless mode, all of which sounded nearly identical thanks to great tuning). It had a physical design flaw with hinges that kept breaking after a few months of use (happened to both of mine), but surely that could have been easily fixed. These could have been the ultimate power user cans, but t…
The panda were wonderful, and based off a headphone I loved to bits in the Oppo PM-3.
If Corsair still own the design, they could simply reimplement the original earcups/hinge mechanism from the Oppo as it was super solid.
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#59Drop ran into the problem every other high quality retailer/manufacturer did before it, when you sell good enough stuff, you don't get repeat business fast enough because the original is still working, and eventually fail due to lack of new buyers to sustain the business. I'm still using my Drop CTRL keyboard from 2018. I haven't bought another keyboard since then because it's a good keyboard. Going through my order…
I mean even cheap keycaps won't wear out for many years for most people, so I don't think quality is a big factor. I got tons of keycaps from Ali Express which are just as good as the high quality stuff, in fact most of them are made on thre same machines...
So not sure if that was really the issue, people ordered keycaps because they liked the design, e.g. the Dasher MT3 set was super popular due to a similar one being used in the "Severance" show.
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#60I was Massdrop's first customer support employee, way back in 2013 or something. I quit after a few months because I was living in DC and don't like remote work, but enjoyed the team and flying out to spend a few days at the "office," which at the time was just a house in Mountain View where most of the guys also lived. Hope Steve and company are happy with the outcome.