Beyerdynamic DT 990 Headphones Review - Usability

	Usability
• Long cord. • Not portable. • Kind of hard to disassemble to maintain, but you can remove and replace all padding. • No batteries required.
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Cable Connectivity     (9.90)

 The straight cable option (remember, using MANUFAKTUR you can choose either a straight or curly cable) for the DT 990s will stretch out to be just shy of 9 feet, 11 inches. This is a very decent length of cord, and most users should have no problem hooking up to a system across the room. If you want a longer cord, opt for the curly cord, since you can squeeze another foot or so out of it.

The DT 990s also come with a 1/4-inch adapter that screws onto their 1/8-inch plug.

This is the straight cord option along with the screw-on 1/4-inch adapter.

Portability     (0.30)

 These headphones are not meant to be portable. First of all, they're huge. Second of all, their cord is comically long for such use. Further, their open-backed design makes them unfeasible for use in public, unless you like hearing a lot of traffic with your playback and annoying passers-by with your loud music.

Still, the headphones come with a case for keeping them safe in transit.

If you looked at these pictures and thought, "hmm, this looks like an open and shut case," then bravo.

Maintenance     (2.50)

 The DT 990s don't give you a lot of options for maintenance. You can pop off the padding, both on the ear cups and the band, but that's about it. Typically you can dismantle over-ears easily with a screwdriver, but the DT 990s, like the DT 990 PROs, aren't that easy. Once you take off the cup padding, you're confronted with a flat plastic surface that has slots and kind of looks like a puzzle, but doesn't have an intuitive solution. We pried at it and bashed it around with our useless screwdriver for a while, but nothing worked. If there is a simple solution, please email us about it. Until we get that email, consider the DT 990s to be a hard nut to repair if cracked.

Other Features     (5.00)

Battery Dependency
The DT 990s are a battery-free device. This is awesome because batteries run out and that's annoying.