Koss Porta Pro vs. Sporta Pro

[Hironiemus]

I went to a local store wanting to test both of earphones but they had only the porta pro in stock. So I tested it and it sounded great (I also compared it to some other headphones which were the triple and higher price and it still won). I asked the guy in the store about the sporta pro and he said that same day a koss agent would be coming and he would ask him about those. Later that day the guy from the store called me saying the koss agent said both earphones have got the same speakers just the design is different.

The point confusing me is that the sporta pro are cheaper even though newer.

So my questions are:

1. Can someone confirm these are same speakers?

2. Has someone really compared them?

3. Do you think the koss agent is reliable enough to have given me the right information? (But if koss wants to cheat its costumers (as sony does in some phrases we all know) he would have recommend me the porta pro since it is more expensive, wouldn't he?

4. If those are really the same headphones why are the newer ones more expensive? (I suppose it is because the porta pro has excellent references. Am I possibly right?)

If you think: "why don't you just trust the koss agent":

I did. But since I ordered the sporta pro and they sent me the porta pro at the cheaper price (34€ incl. tax + S&H) I wondered if the sporta pro were not the same but worse I won't get the opportunity again to get the porta pro at such a low price w.\ guarantee. The point of not just keeping the porta pro is I like it more to have the band around the neck then above the head.

a) Because it looks better

It won't fall off as easy as above the head

Hope you understood all.

Thanks for your support.

[atrain]

i have a pair of portas, very nice phones although they are still box fresh.

this article seems to give the most repeated differences between the models

http://www.goodcans.com/HeadphoneReviews/porta.htm

seems that you've got a nice deal