tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23750521041616199152024-02-20T15:43:56.523+00:009811194 otherwise known as mark2410erm headphones, earphones and related paraphernalia9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.comBlogger533125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-54439670491929614802018-02-14T19:34:00.002+00:002018-02-14T19:34:24.128+00:004GEE Home Router Review<img alt="4GEE Home Router Review" class="size-full wp-image-20411 aligncenter" height="720" src="https://mobiletechtalk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018-02-13-19.02.39.jpg" width="960" /><br />
So what do you you do if you need internet but have no land line, maybe its just to cover until you do or maybe its because your not living there long enough to get installed? This is EE's answer to that question.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">Initial Impressions</span></h3>
Well first of all I must talk about how you get the device as clearly its only available from 1 source therefore the buying experience is integral. Now if anyone knows me they will know I think BTEE is the devil in telco form. However, I presently have no land-based internet connection, EE is widely recognised as having the fastest UK network as it has 3 bands it can aggregate and has oodles of spectrum to spare. Not to mention I live a stone’s throw from an EE mast. So I was prepared to lie with the devil if it meant faster internet. However, to get the package I wanted, one offering a reasonable 200GB a month you must, MUST, buy the 4GEE home router from them. EE will not just sell you a sim card with 200GB. This meant as I didn’t want a contract that I had to cough up £100 to buy the router. A device I don’t really want but it’s the only way to get the 200GB package which I do want. Its extortion but I want the fastest I can get so I’ll pay it.<br />
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Opening the box is nothing exciting, the box is only available in white and its bland. 2 ethernet sockets on the back seems a bit stingy but network switches are cheap. Oh, it can take external aerials, oh but doesn’t include any and I’m told by EE that they will only sell you some if you prove to them you have a poor signal and that if I want I should just go elsewhere to buy them. However, as I live so close to a mast I would hope it is not needed. Connecting it to power I get a full bar signal but it has no detail in the db of the signal so I can’t tell how strong it really is nor can I see any information About the connection other than its 4G.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">Hardware</span></h3>
The box itself is, meh. Black would be so much cooler but it comes in white, and it lights up with blue for 4G and something else for 3G but why would buy it if you can’t get 4G, given the bands for 4G your more likely to get it than 3G only from EE. So, it’s a box its inoffensive to the eyes. As routers go its basic in the settings available. Really there just isn’t anything interesting to say about the thing. It works, does nothing special. You strangely get 2 ethernet sockets which seems a touch mean given its size id have expected 4 like most routers but this is a remarkably bland little box. The most interesting thing about it is it has little screw hole on the bottom so you could wall mount it. That could be handy to stick it in an attic, rather than run an external antenna if you live out in the sticks.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">Software</span></h3>
Meh. Lots of yellow and turquoise and above all, basic. Though you very handily get a link to check the data allowance on the sim card and that you do not need to log into the router, just access it so it means anyone on the network could check it and not have to have admin access. Otherwise……. It’s a basic router. Yes, there is a link to check text messages you may have been sent but why would you ever give the number out?<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">Network</span></h3>
So much of this device isn’t really about the device itself its about the network. The two key aspects being speed and quantity of data. The data quantity is something I can speak of and it can apply to everyone but the speed, well it’s a different kettle of fish. What I get here, right now, will be different from what I get it the evening which will be different from what I get at 3 in the morning. Then distance from the mast matters lots and then what others are doing using the same mast matters and then of course general network backbone congestion. Usually I would say, to test something like this you should grab a PAYG sim from the network and test it where you plan to use but…… EE only give you their full unrestricted network speed if you are on one of their higher end plans. PAYG are limited to 30mbit. While I hate this policy its there so take everything I say about speed with a bucket of salt as what I get may have no bearing on what you may get.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">Speed</span></h3>
Having gotten a full bar signal (whatever a bar means) and being so near an EE mast I would like to think I should bee getting as clos to the best EE can offer as possible. However, I was disappointed. The highest I ever saw it peek at was mid 60mbits but its more consistent speed was 40mbit in the day and mid 20mbits in the evenings. Which frankly, I was hugely disappointed at. I’m right next to a mast so I would have hoped to get an amazing speed and while the upload was always super impressive I didn’t care so much about that. If you however upload tons then this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay faster than the 20mbit you can get on a land connection.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">Plans</span></h3>
One of the more frustrating aspects in that EE have 2 plans in particular that are of interest, 100GB for £45 and the 200GB I have for £60. Yeah this is a bit pricey but what’s really the most annoying aspect is EE will only sell you these if you buy its 4GEE router, free on a two year contract or £100 for the rolling 30day. WHY??????? This’ would be an ideal offering for those temporarily without a land connection £60 for a sim with 200GB on to cover you while the other end of the company (Openreach) connect your land line as slowly as they possibly can. But you must cough up £100 for a router that does nothing an old spare handset couldn’t do. I find this extremely annoying. However, if you live outside of civilisation and you want the 2 year contract then I guess it matters less but really EE, why must we use the router you have picked? Or rather why must we pay for it as there is nothing to stop us whipping out the sim card and putting it in anything we want. Something that may not be useful to me but…… any road warriors out there could slap it in a spare phone or MiFi and away. Potentially something massively useful for people at shows needing to upload masses of video content.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">Traffic Interception</span></h3>
What??? Yes. I noticed that some sites would just not work on EE. It wasn’t the naughty filter as I turned that thing off but things like, logging into my bank account would generate a network error. Fire up a VPN and it worked fine. So, it would seem that EE is intercepting traffic and moderating it in some way. I have no idea why other than for traffic shaping but I find it rather suspicious, its malicious at worst and more likely at best, its just a shoddy service. Incompetence or deliberate it makes me uncomfortable that EE are interfering with traffic to my bank.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">Conclusion</span></h3>
Oh BTEE, you could have nailed this but you chose not to. Your 200GB plan for £60 is pricey but I’d pay it to get the connection and while it wasn’t what at all I’d hoped, it was decent. Like a moderate land connection but with stunning upload speeds. God this sim is made for taking to a show by journalists and uploading huge amounts of video. It has soooooo much potential. But….. BTEE true to form has opted to force you to buy a router, that while is fine and does the job the fact is I don’t want it. I want the 200GB but they won’t sell me it unless I buy that router. For short term use, which is what I want it makes it wildly expensive, first month makes for £160 a month, 2 makes it £110 a month averaged. For that you need to be off the charts fast, fast like in one of your demos and then I could live with it (even if my wallet is furious about it) but your speeds while nice, did not blow me away. The fact you then won’t include some extra antenna to boost the signal and whatnot is just a slap in the face to customers. I see the market for this as technerds who need a short term internet fix while they await for Openreach to push a button or to those who Openreach has told to F themselves as they live somewhere Openreach doesn’t like. It would seem that for EE some bits are more equal than others and so if you want 200GB of allowance you must buy the box or no 200GB plan for you.<br />
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So, in short, a great idea but EE have demanded such a steep price and imposed a device buying restriction to make it as unappealing as possible a proposition. Yep it works pretty good for me right next to a mast but it is so expensive for short term use thanks to being made to buy a device you may not want. Why is it networks don’t want to just sell you the data you want but insist on being a pimp for hardware manufacturers? Sorry EE but this will be going back in the box and returned to you shortly.<br />
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9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-91838103334055283202018-02-14T13:55:00.004+00:002018-02-14T13:55:58.422+00:00Massdrop NuForce EDC3 IEM Quick Review by mark2410<img alt="Massdrop NuForce EDC3 IEM Quick Review" class="size-full wp-image-20406 aligncenter" height="550" src="https://mobiletechtalk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018-02-14_13-17-06.jpg" width="768" /><br />
Massdrop are at it again, with their pre purchase, group buy model they can get discounts on things no one else can. Se they can do they can do cheap but are these any good? Oh hell yeah baby!!!<br />
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Thanks to <a href="https://www.massdrop.com/">Massdrop</a> for the sample<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Brief</span></h3>
Massdrop make a new force in IEM's<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Price </span></h3>
US$100 or about £72<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Specifications</span></h3>
Driver units: 3 balanced armature drivers per ear, Earphones matching: +/- 2 dB, Housing material: Lexan polycarbonate, Color: Smoky translucent blue/gray, Impedance: 16 ohms, Maximum input power: 2 mW, Microphone sensitivity: -42 dB +/- 5 dB, Frequency response: 20 Hz–40 kHz, Sensitivity (at 1 kHz): 100 dB +/- 3 dB, Cable length: 54.3 in (138 mm), Connector: 2-pin, Plug: ⅛ in (3.5 mm) TRS (braided cable) or TRRS (remote/mic cable), Remote/mic cable compatibility: Apple and most Android devices, Remote/mic cable functionality: Play/pause; start/end call; next/previous song; start Siri, Google Assistant, or Cortana (functionality varies between Android devices), Weight, IEMs with braided cable: 0.2 oz (5.7 g), Weight, IEMs with remote/mic cable: 0.3 oz (8.5 g)<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Accessories</span></h3>
2 cables (one braided, one with remote/mic), 3 sets of silicone ear tips (S, M, L), 2 sets of foam ear tips (M, L), Shirt clip, Zippered carrying case<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Build Quality</span></h3>
It would all appear very sold and firmly constructed. Cables are pleasant too and that you get two is great.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Isolation</span></h3>
Very good, as you would expect from an all armature affair, they are bang on what’s typical. So for BA users nothing special but will be wildly isolating to those only used to dynamic IEM’s. Perfect for blocking out the outside world and easily good enough to use on a long flight. Just remember to watch out for traffic as you won’t hear it.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Comfort/Fit</span></h3>
Excellent. Nothing unusual and would appear to visually borrow heavily from Westone, though in fairness all most all multi BA IEM are a similar shape to this, it works if it being very ordinary. I could wear them all day happily.<br />
Aesthetics: Nice enough but well they are a bit bland. Nothing at all what so ever bad about them but its like a ford. Fine, nice enough but in no way stands out visually.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Sound</span></h3>
Weeeeee!!! There was a time when a 3 BA IEM was insanely expensive and this is clocking in at $100. No, seriously. Full bodied and robust sounding with a frankly stunning bottom end for that price. Spec wise I wonder if this is a tweak of the HEM6 as it also has 3 drivers a side, but it’s like $300, which I could see being more realistic for these. The detail levels are great for 100 and the treble is, rather refined. Now I’m relatively treble sensitive and thus for me I was highly pleased with its subdued treble (which is a wise thing to do with BA drivers as they can get edgy.) The mids are full and hearty, maybe too full bodied and meaty. Airy and delicate this doesn’t really do so well but so what. It has a richness and fullness that made me think it may a dynamic in the bottom end but the spec says BA. While these may lack the delicate nuances of other triple driver things like the UM3x they’re a barrel load of fun and of capability for the price. Deeply deep for a BA and a rounded bass capability that is really where these shine most. While I see them called neutral, I think of neutral as being like an ER4, ruler flat, where these are more “natural” ish. I still would say they are more on the weighty and bass heavy side of things for an upper end IEM but….. more neutral in comparison to lower end things that given their price tag is reasonable to compare them to in terms of sound signature. They are in short, a bit bassy and powerful for the audiophile world but bucket loads of fun and should give those more accustomed to very bass heavy things a taste of what quality and of the clarity a BA can provide. Super fun, beefy little beastly entertainers.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Value</span></h3>
Excellent. They bring an audiophile dash of quality to a crowd pleasing sound signature.<br />
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9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-48881789923224677072017-08-06T12:45:00.003+01:002017-08-06T12:45:32.851+01:00BESTEK 300W Power Inverter Review<br />
Thanks to <a href="http://amzn.to/2vDHbuR">BESTEK</a> for the sample.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Initial Impressions </span></h2>
Well this is a little bit of a departure for me, I don’t normally do car things but this, this a bit different too. It’s about turning a car into an office on wheels. You see the power inverter bit means taking a car power socket and turning it into a real plug, like at home. Why don’t cars all have this built in?<br />
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So, the thing is a bit of a chunky beast, heavy but not as heavy as I feared it could be. I think it’s all aluminium rather than steel, yet it’s a very solid lump. Actually, its edges could do with being a little rounded as its going to mostly deep in the passenger foot well where you can easily bump your feet.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Aesthetics</span></h2>
The thing is, functional. It’s not ugly or anything and that red is useful as you can spot it easily in a dark foot well but….. well it’s a bit meh visually. Not ugly, not particularly attractive, functional.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Performance </span></h2>
Well, where its looks were meh, here it starts to shine. It’s got 2 USB sockets on the front as a bonus but the real star is that big plug socket on the front. It is the point of this device, it is why you buy it. Now it’s not entirely like the ones you have at home as at home you can plug in massively power-hungry things here you are limited to 300W. so that means, no plugging in a hair dryer or kettle but…….. it does mean you can plug in your laptop. Yes if there is one things that I feel this was designed for, it is your laptop. You can get little car fridges, car air pumps etc etc. but you know I don’t ever recall seeing car laptop chargers. Why is that?<br />
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Now not being the true road warrior that some others are, yet for me it turned a car into a train. You know trains now all come with plug sockets to charge your laptop and while you can’t use your laptop if you’re driving but it gives you suddenly can if you’re a passenger. Similarly, if you are driving from meeting to meeting you can plug the thing in and get it charging. Once having this available it became a, why don’t all cars just have plugs built in??? Sure, the USB sockets are a nice addition but you can get a million USB car charger but a laptop one I have never seen before. Not just ultra-low power USB-C charging laptops either, proper grown up ones. Excellent and most handy an ability.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Temperature </span></h2>
All charger things get warm and the power inverter was no different but with it being all aluminium, it turns the housing into a big heatsink. So it got a little warm, but that was all. Mind you if you had lots more being powered id assume it would get even warmer but nothing at all to bother about.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Value</span></h2>
Well, I guess it depends what you want to do with it. However, at £26 delivered I rather think it’s something anyone who needs their laptop should have in the car. You may not be needing longer than its battery could last in a day but who hasn’t ever picked up a battery device and realised they haven’t charged it and its now dead? Everyone has done it, several times and having one of these chucked in the boot you can always whip it out and emergency averted. It’s the sort of thing you may note need every day or every week but need it once and I’d say you’ve gotten your 20 odd quid’s worth out of it.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Conclusion</span></h2>
So, it’s a plug socket. It’s a glorified USB and for me anyway, a laptop charger. While I wanted it to be more attachable to something but as every car is different it can’t be. Yet that didn’t really matter. It once it sat in a corner out of the way was totally unobtrusive despite being bright red. It is going to be a pretty narrow use case as we generally don’t have a normal plug socket outside of home or the office so we don’t expect there to be. We plan around there not being one as it’s the normal state oy affairs. My father, on my asking him what he thought of it described as being like a spare wheel or car jack, something you don’t normally ever really need but something everyone should have in the car as you never know when you might suddenly need it.<br />
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It I a device that most wouldn’t use day to day but its price against how much it could save your bacon means now having one, my father has stolen it from me. It’s become something he has barely used but yet is now something he doesn’t want removed from the car as its potentially such a lifesaver. For something at 20 odd quid to go from I never thought about needing to, I won’t get in the car without it makes a highly compelling purchase. Granted it’s not a sexy fun thing to buy but one that acts like a safety net, just in case you need it.9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-46778221064072548562017-06-27T11:04:00.003+01:002017-06-27T11:04:55.913+01:00HIFIMAN RE1000 Custom / Universal Earphone Review by mark241<div style="text-align: justify;">
HIFIMAN's big dual driver custom fit offering finally gets a looking at in some detail.</div>
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<span style="color: #ff9900;">First Impressions</span></h2>
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Well the very first time I heard these was waaaaaaay back at Canjam London, 2016. I didn’t spend too long with them obviously as you can’t at a show but I did make a note or two as I went around listening to things. If you want to know what I said, you can find a pic of my scrawled notes in the Headfi Canjam London 2016 impressions thread. Suffice to say it was largely a bunch of expletives. How a year can change things yet others hardly change. While these are no longer the far extreme high end they once were as I’ve been playing with the RE800 and RE2000 for months now yet…. These are still damn fine.</div>
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Now, I have a universal pair that gets used for demo’s so the full custom experience should be a little bit different but I’d like to think aside from a slight treble dampening the foam tips I’ve got on the sound shouldn’t change all that much.</div>
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<img alt=" HIFIMAN RE1000 Custom / Universal Earphone Review by mark2410" class="aligncenter" height="768" src="http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n558/9811194/Headphones/HiFiMAN/2017-06-21%2019.45.32-1_zpsvlgot8sp.jpg" title=" HIFIMAN RE1000 Custom / Universal Earphone Review by mark2410" width="1024" /></div>
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<span style="color: #ff9900;">Source</span></h2>
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HIFIMAN 901S with Minibox Gold card, HIFIMAN Supermini, HIFIMAN Megamini, Nuforce uDAC 3 and Hifiman 901s + Dock into the Graham Slee Solo Ultra Linear, lastly my Google Pixel.</div>
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<span style="color: #ff9900;">Lows</span></h2>
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Grandly grandiose and full bodied, these having a dual driver set up means the lows can do what they want without having to concern themselves with what the treble is doing. Strangely for a dynamic these feel very closed. The fan that keeps blowing in my face generates some wind noise so they can’t be totally but this feels very closed. The bass too then takes on a certain darkness and weight of that from a closed headphone. Heavy, full and solid. It’s funny but I almost want to call it a little slow, funny that as for a dynamic it’s really not yet having been playing with the RE2000 and its lighting agility, this feels beside it so grown up and mature. Listening to Twenty One Pilots “House of Gold” the bass feels big, beefy and rich, maybe a bit overly so yet these are wow, hearty and potent little beasts. Okay maybe not that little. Hmm just how big is the diver in these things, it feels and sounds huge. (9mm)</div>
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Going to town with these and slapping on some party tunes, they feel endlessly powerful. While they aren’t marketed as so they have big boost in the bass, slightly rounded towards the mid bass then a little peek right down low. Doing the Cheskey audio demo, heartbeats the 40Hz def has a little dip before the 30 and 20 roar back at you. Good god that 20Hz one, there is no stopping the driver in here. Holy crap these will shake your brain apart if you let them. Woah its impressive though while I’m not accustomed to music containing that much so low down, a good friend of mine is an organist and I could see him wetting his pants with excitement over these. Stunningly vigorous, visceral and a little disturbing.</div>
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Tonality the bass is a little rich, slightly more of a brown than a grey but it has that certain dark quality, a foreboding and gloomy candle lit gothic architectural wonder. Like there is some impending horror hiding in the shadows. Mossorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” in IEM form. Its’ so darkly delicious yet something scary I just can’t put my finger on. These are at their best when you throw them headlong into something beastly. Having just listened to “Night On Bald Mountain” 4 times something is clearly working.</div>
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From a completely detached perspective, these are rather bass heavy, very atypically so for HIFIMAN, so much so you could legitimately could start to think of these as bass cannons. They are big, vast scale and power with a hint of an obfucative grainy darkness. It is epically powerful and while it has me giddy like a school girl at times (its super fun party time) in delicate works it is a big hump that, well it’s like giving the Venus de Milo a breast augmentation. There is something a bit wrong with that, I know it’s not quite right but…… I cannot help grinning like an idiot anyway.</div>
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Next to the bass the mids are following up behind, wonderful clarity as always (mids are what I love and HIFIMAN always do great mids) yet they aren’t so dominant and I find that beside the RE800 these feel so much deeper, warmer and darker. The 800 can do little and delicate vocals that glide and float across the senses. These are deep and vast and rich and monumental, impressive and elephantine. Like some grand wall of power is where they shine. Squeeee, its fun and silly and wild and sumptuous and flowing and dark and secretive. Some faint monster hiding in the dark shadows of that grand gothic cathedral I spoke of earlier. A gargoyle half covered in shade waiting to thunder or to melt in the gloom. I may have been listening to “Night On Bald Mountain” too many times. If you have never seen it, go get a copy of Fantaisa and watch / listen to it.</div>
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A/B’ing back and forth I find the mids on the 1000 to be a little on the rich, slightly thick for something of this calibre, beside the 800 the 800 feels so light and nimble, so much midrange detail and at first glance the 1000 is too thick, it hides things. At first look anyway, when you pay closer attention it actually has a very good degree of detail yet it’s not so readily apparent. Like a coffee where someone has been a little over zealous with the cream. Yes, it’s delicious, creamy and richly sumptuous but perhaps a touch too much so. Then when I stop flicking about and just listen the detail levels are such that I don’t in any way feel anything is missing. Then I fire up Nana Mouskouri’s “Ave Maria” and simply melt into it. Her weirdly ethereal voice and Schubert’s masterpiece go hand in so well, airy and dreamy and while there should be more air, it remains a staggeringly beautiful rendition.</div>
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The mids are creamy and rich, we have established already but they are sufficiently clear and detailed enough that this level of richness isn’t over kill. Never the less these are at their most happy I think with some beastly power flowing forth. The most light and delicate vocals in particular not having all the air they should. Then I hit the skip button a few times and your ears are thrown in to this abundance of riches. Enya’s “Book of Days” takes on an epic scale. Carly Simons “Let the River Run” is like a deep flowing river dragging you along in the current. Grand and impressive for sure but hmm, maybe it’s all a little too grand and impressive for all the time.</div>
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Now, I’m using universals and I’ve got on foam tips so the treble I will be getting will be a little dampened beyond what a pure custom model should be. However if you’re after brilliant, in your face treble, details hurled at you like an exploding crystal decanter hitting a granite floor……. this isn’t it. Opening up the big IEM tub and grabbing the Finder X1 (first trebly thing I spotted) and they sound so shrill and brittle, so much treble it’s like someone’s grinding slivers of broken glass into my ears. Okay I exaggerate a little but you get the idea. The treble on the 1000 is that bit muted, relaxed, gently so and it just rolls softly over your ear drums. It’s a highly pleasing presentation and for me I’m VERY happy with it bit I’d be lying if I said it made for a reference flat sound. Treble junkies and absolute purists will probably not be satisfied with the quantity.</div>
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The quality though as ever from HIFIMAN I really cannot fault, I would expect it to have been a bit more trebly but how much of that is down to my using a universal with foamy tips, I cannot say, the flavour of the treble is slightly warmed over where it should be, smooth and enveloping. The detail level is very good but its rather obscure, its so not in your face. Yet while I keep feeling it should be a bit slow, then I test it with something and nope its not, not at all but that doesn’t seem right. How can it be fast as it is yet sound so laid back and smooth? I need to investigate what driver is doing the treble but I have a feeling it could be the one used in the RE-ZERO or maybe the 262. Its perplexing, I can hear that its fast, the micro detail is good but it is more relaxed feeling. Time and again I drift back to soft and smooth tracks, like Barbra’s version of “Ne Me Quitte Pas” and just melt into it.</div>
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As much I find the presentation to be delightful on the ear I think that it does want to be paired to a crisp and clean source, if you want the treble to come out and play. It may be detailed and fast but stylistically you could very easy not notice much of the detail otherwise. It is there but draped over chaise lounge.</div>
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Its labelled as being like Carnegie Hall, which I’ve never been in but I’m not seeing it. The presentation is just too rich to provide a truly open and spacious soundstage. Its grand and melodramatic, a bombastic wonder in grand symphonic pieces. Mars himself could be conducting the Orchestra when playing back Holst’s tribute to him. It’s fun and giddy and HUGE and powerful like the world is getting ready to end. Yet airy…....not so much. However, in vocal heavy pieces it doesn’t ever pull in too close. “Papa Can You Hear Me” hasn’t the up-close intimacy I’d like. Nevertheless the richness of the vocals are such that I don’t care, air is something my lungs need not my ears. Volume, body and power are the watchwords here.</div>
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Great. Granted I have a universal which you probably won’t and your comfort will be totally dependent on how your ear moulds are and what not. Still do note that they are physically very large, by universal standards these are massive things but then what custom isn’t?</div>
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For me, in and done but again I’ve got universals, it should be for a custom you slide in with a little twist but it’s all your ears dependent.</div>
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In a complete departure from every HIFIMAN cable this one is braided. I can only assume that was Unique Melody’s influence as they make the physical housing. Oh and the cable is removable as is the UM way. It’s a nice cable physically yet I can’t help feeling something silvery looking would go so nicely visually with them.</div>
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Well, with their ear guide memory wire bits, I did get a bit. If I pushed them right, tight onto my ears it went away but this is why I like removable ear guides. Not that it was bad or anything but wearing up I like there to be none at all but I could snap my head about and make the braiding rub on my collars.</div>
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I really do like them. I’m a sucker for silver but I really want a pair like they use in the promo images. The smokey black and then with the tips offset red and blue…..omg it looks so good. Sadly, I don’t have my own custom pair (yet anyway) so I’m doing the ghetto solution, red and blue foamy tips. Still the silver outer back plate has garnered a few, “ooooh what are those” enquiries. Of course, you can choose whatever you want. The tip and the main body can be whatever from a selection and then the faceplate can be from another bigger selection. Some look awesome but some….. seriously who is picking the 6 wood ones or the gold glitter one, I shouldn’t judge. (yeah, I’d be totally judging you if you had gold glitter ones.)</div>
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They come with a case which is more or less it if you have the full custom version, if the universal you get a handful of tips but I’d say just jump to foamys otherwise their being so sealed gave me that little suction air pressure effect. While totally fine in normal use but reviewing where your swapping back and forth it really begins to stress my ears. That’s why I generally always jump to foam tips when reviewing.</div>
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While I do not expect a custom to be run out of a big desktop amp I also don’t expect it to be run out of a phone either, yet it’s actually really easy to drive. Owl City’s “If My Heart Were a House” came on and the bassline, Holy crap!!!!! That is a bass line and the 1000 out of the Huawei P8 (it fit in there without having to take the case off) roared out, positively thunderous, ear shaking, oh my god it’s an earthquake bass!!! Plus, the thing goes absurdly deep but that is extremely clean for just out of a phone. Maybe I’ve been overkilling it with the desktop amp? It’s actually sounding freakishly good from the phone. Maybe its lack of electrical power has toned down the richness of the 1000 and the P8 is a bit on the clean / lean side of things. So is the little 1G Ipod Shuffle I keep around. Which, actually isn’t such the great pairing I was hoping for. It is lean a bit yeah but the 1000 is fairly sensitive and its picking up all the static that the Shuffle spits out, for me that rather spoils the show.</div>
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So the RE1000 it seems is very easy to drive out of any old thing but…. you need to stick to things with a pretty black background or hiss crackle crackle is all I’m noticing. Maybe vinyl lovers will love it, they seem to love that extraneous noise in recordings. Still the take away is, no need for power here and I’d say a little bit of a colder source works really well with them.</div>
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While the thud of your heel into the ground may be amplified with a closed IEM it also means that the external isolation is extreme for a dynamic set up. Its pushing at the door of what a typical BA IEM can deliver. This means that for most uses they are great, for a bus or a flight, they are perfectly usable. Maybe not for a massive long flight but easily good enough to use for most. Naturally you won’t hear traffic noises so if your new to high isolation IEM’s then please do remember use your eyes when near traffic or the last thing you hear will be your skull impacting some motorised vehicle.</div>
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The pair I have here has been around the block a few times as it’s a pair that has been used for demos for a long while. It’s held up to all the abuse airport baggage handlers could throw at it and hordes of you people at various audio shows. To my eyes they appear unblemished and unscathed so I can only rate them as being rather good then. It’s hard to tell without a time machine of course how well things survive but these have been used and abused by many and are still going strong.</div>
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Well, is any earphone really worth more than US$100, hell I know people that don’t think any earphone is worth more than US$10 so can we ever sit and say this is worth more than 20 years’ worth of water for 250 people in Africa? The reality is, first world values are more like, is it better value than a weekend in Barcelona or Prague? In which case I can absolutely say yes, these will last you damn sight longer than a weekend and bring you considerably more joy. If it comes down to what would bring your soul more joy, I’d take these in a heartbeat. Also, l like that these can come in either a full on custom fit or if you want you can get it as a universal, why don’t all custom makers let you do that? You know if you don’t fancy hard acrylic or you’re in a band and you guys want to be able to share, just whip off the tips and you can rotate roles round in the band.</div>
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N.B. these are presently (24/06/2017) on sale at US$699 which is very significant saving and wildly boosts their value for money.</div>
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So these are not what I really expected when I set out. I remember my time at Canjam last year and being somewhat blown away. For me they were the thing at the show that year I most wanted. For practical reasons, I gravitate to IEM’s because a big chunk of my available listening time is being sat on a bus, commuting. That is what got me into audio and the world of earphones outside of what is available in a high-street shop. That good stuff, actually seriously good stuff was out there if you just knew where to look. Thus, for me the most important listening space is one in public where I can shift into my own little universe. Me and the music. I want, no need, high enough isolation so I don’t have to hear traffic noise or anyone when near me. I need something I can carry and they also need to be small enough to go in my pocket when I’m done. These are pushing that last criteria a little but they are totally liveable. For the price, a slightly big case you get a rip-roaring sub-woofer in your skull. Not that I’m saying more bass equals better, the purist in me is a little unhappy at the bass quantity.</div>
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Having now spent more time with the RE1000 I’ve found it to be at its best for me, out of leaner sounding things like my Studio V (which is what I was using at Canjam) that bass is just so epic, so ludicrously deep, sooooooooooooo much power. Good lord that Cheskey Heartbeat demo thing is intense, seriously strange, the depth and the air movement it’s like my whole head is pulsating. It’s so firm too, being a closed, sealed tight that pressure is giddy, epic and queasy and unsettling plus a heap of other adjectives. It’s a wonder for sure but all that power, thrilling but aurally exhausting for my delicate little ears. It’s just such an extravaganza in fast paced or complex music. If we then look to music that is more me, smooth and sweepingly gently flowing melodies. “The Windmills of Your Mind” sounds so effortless and creamy but like audio crack I cannot stop myself putting on some poptastic sound explosion. It is fun, lots and lots of fun.</div>
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So, would I buy one? Yep. I mean it might not be the only IEM I would ever want to own and I’m personally still a total sucker for the RE800 as its tonality and balance just happen to perfectly pair up with my ears and my tastes. These would be what I’d have around for bass party time. As I write that Owl City’s “Tip of the Iceberg” comes on and it’s like someone’s got a gigantic sub in a sealed room, then added another five of them for good measure. It’s fun and thrilling and giddy and silly. Like eating a mound of profiteroles, gloriously indulgent and rich but not maybe something I would personally want every day. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a mountain of profiteroles to devour.</div>
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Brief: Two times the drivers, Ten times the power.</div>
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Price: US$999 but presently on sale for US$699</div>
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Specifications: Frequency Response: 20Hz-20kHz, Impedance: 12Ω, Sensitivity: 105dB, Dual Dynamic Driver, 9mm Dynamic Driver, 8.5mm Dynamic Driver, User Replaceable Braided Cable.</div>
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Accessories: You get a case, nothing that special but hey ho.</div>
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Build Quality: The pair I have here has been a demo set for ages now so, it has actually been in use for ages and it’s still going strong. Big, solid and short of accidently standing on them they should last as long as you do.</div>
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Isolation: Freakishly good for a dynamic. They feel and sound completely sealed which is rare in a dynamic. We are talking practically BA levels so you could not only use on a bus but get away with a Tube commute or two. Excellent isolators so please if near traffic, use your eyes or get an organ donor card.</div>
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Comfort/Fit: I have a universal version here but I’d expect almost everyone to get the full custom version. Therefor you should get a perfect fit and likewise perfect comfort. Though with the universal here I was good with the foam tips. Just remember these are huge in comparison to normal universals (as all customs are.)</div>
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Aesthetics: Customs. Size aside you determine the colour options used so your ones should always look great to you. Even if you have no taste and want the gold glitter faceplates.</div>
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Sound: Epic, vast grandeur and power. The micro detailing is good but it’s not thrust at you in anyway, these are slanted to the bottom end and the bass driver is a thunderous beast of a thing. Woah, it’s like it might rip your face off at any minute. Stunning, in its raw pawer capabilities and at times even too much. The depth is frankly stupid. The Cheskey 20 Hz heart beat thing makes me giddy, I grin like an idiot then I realise my skull is pulsating with it. There is just so much power on hand, they are so easy to drive that if anything running off a weedy source like a phone is not only easy but I found preferable. It tamed the bass potency and nudged them towards the light. Not that they are very trebly, there is a great deal of micro detail in there, yet the richness of the presentation does somewhat gloss over it. The creaminess overshadows the most tiny of nuances to give this grandiose wall of acoustic monumentality. Thunderous and magnificent which yearns to have songs with power behind them played. Mids so flowing and smooth be they string or vocal, as little too creamy maybe, so it does stifle breathy delicate stuff a little but you’ll be having so fun you won’t likely care if you even notice.</div>
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Value: Sure 1k isn’t cheap but what custom is and none I’ve met has the vigour on the low end this one has. You want awesome stuff, your wallet takes a hit, simples.</div>
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Pro’s: Stunning bass power and ridiculous depth. High isolation. Super creamy.</div>
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Con’s: Bass is rather dominant. Treble too smooth for some.</div>
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9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-19411038848080492692017-06-23T22:36:00.001+01:002017-06-23T22:36:58.234+01:00HIFIMAN RE800 Earphone Review by mark2410HIFIMAN RE800 Earphone Review by mark2410<br />
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Disclaimer: I work with HFIMAN so feel free not to believe me if you so wish.<br />
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First Impressions: Well this isn’t really my “first” impression. It
technically is with an actual retail set but…. Well yeah that working
with bit I mentioned. I’ve been playing with these for basically the
last 6 months and unsurprisingly, I like them. I like them rather a
lot. Okay so I’ve liked every IEM from HIFIMAN I’ve ever heard so this
is not likely news to anyone. These are in keeping with the RE262 –
RE600 vein and it matches up more or less perfectly with my personal
tastes. They are bit warm, bit bass boosted, bit middy and a little
gently sloped in the highs. So if you’re a treble junky these may not
be for you but…….. for me and for all day listening. FCUK yeah!!! So
easy on the ear the RE800 is like they took the RE600, dipped it in
magic sauce then sprinkled pixie dust on it. Particularly with the big
Comply’s on, it further just dampens the treble for my treble sensitive
ears yet has hidden depths of resolution in there. It’s so nonchalant,
casually presented which is just how I like it. If I want to listen out
for micro details I can, or I can stop and just listen to the big
picture, the entire grandiosity of it all. Oh and if you were in doubt,
they do a glorious rendition of cello’s. There will be much Elgar this
coming week.<br />
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Source: HIFIMAN 901S with Minibox Gold card, HIFIMAN Supermini, HIFIMAN
Megamini, Nuforce uDAC 3 and Hifiman 901s + Dock into the Graham Slee
Solo Ultra Linear, lastly my Google Pixel.<br />
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Lows: Well its rather glorious. The natural thing I’m going to
compare it to is its sibling, the RE600. The 600 was a tweaked
evolution form the RE262 and thus when you first hear the 800 its seems
in the same vein. It is, sort of, it feels like the natural next step
up and then you stick the 600 in your ears and wonder what happened.
The 600 sounds so nasal and mid focused, no breadth, no spaciously open
smoothly rich low end. The deepest reaches are a bit boosted yeah but
it seems to cling on a with a ruthless yet utterly natural feeling
tenacity. I mentally get its boosted. I know it is but to know what’s
in a lasagne you look at the ingredients list but it doesn’t in any way
describe what the combined sensation is like in your mouth. These, they
do that but in your ears. These are good in such a
non-attention-grabbing fashion, they lull you into it ever so smoothly.
While I’ve been playing with these for about the last 6 months which is
dramatically longer than I usually spend with an item to review.
These are so sumptuous and controlled like some hyper control freak yet
like a swan effortlessly and gracefully gliding across a lake, its
melodiousness is pure perfection.<br />
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Kicking into artificial bass lines like those form Enya, “Even in The
Shadows” to “The First of Autumn” they just grip on to the note so
incredibly tightly yet go with it in perfect sync, like some perfectly
synchronised figure skating. They sweep, they swoon, they shrink to
almost nothing then they roar and thunder. “Your Father And I” comes
barrelling out at you like a force of nature, you can practically touch
the articulation of the notes. These remind in me in same ways of a
well amped and impedance added IE8 yet when I try the IE8’s they feel
so, grey. That spark has gone, the clarity has fuzzied and they just
feel like a lesser product. Mars the bringer of war, seems more like
Mars the bringer of slightly unhappy but can’t be bothered. The lows
are just so vague, soft and flabby in comparison and those are not
things the Senn is normally thought of as, but side by side it is. The
RE800 takes what was once thought of as the best by far, single dynamic
IEM and solidly spanks them.<br />
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The quantity, while so far these may have been coming across as a bass
monster but they are so not. Not only because they so clean in their
articulations but that they are not really that bass boosted. Sure they
are bit, these are in the RE262>RE600 line, not the RE0>RE272
more neutral line. These are not strictly ruler flat, but what is,
still the bass, is boosted but not ever present like on the IE8 which is
my go too bass IEM. It does tail off in the furthest depths but that’s
really what should happen. It’s the natural timbre of it all. The
lower end ranges of a cello and into that of a double bass, I can
practically touch the strings. Good god they feel so alive and natural
for an IEM. It’s so unspeakably nuanced for an IEM. This is more
heading in the direction of an open backed headphone and yet unlike the
IE8 and IE7 they haven’t done it at the expense of giving sod all
isolation.<br />
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Mids: Taking those low cello notes and going the other way, well, if
you like a cello (and I do) then these are not just good but
breath-taking. Not so mid focused as the 600 is, the sound staging here
takes on a breadth but doesn’t then layer on breathy dry, stripping any
liquidity away from it. Elgar and his cello concerto is just
magnificent. It really is the way these can move from the simple and
humble, focus on a delicate and almost trembling solitary cello. So
meek and unprepossessing, then it symphonically rises up and becomes
this staggeringly full bodied cacophony of power. I know part of the
intention in the creation of these was to give the listener a
presentation that aims toward that you might find, sat in a concert hall
and…….. while a big open can can do that semblance of authority and
majesty better…… these are tiny itty bitty things which fit in your ear.<br />
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The flavour of the mid-range means that it’s not so focused and in your
face. Moving to a broader spatial presentation they are a smidge of
distance back and lack that dash of extra fluidity I like. Vocals
aren’t as smooth and creamy as I often like but these feel more
realistic. I know I like things a little too creamy and buttery and
while these give the impression they might go that way they never quite
do. You see doing that starts to obfuscate their clarity and they can’t
bring themselves to do so. The clarity and natural timbre, while I
hate the term “organic” they do have that feel. There is something
real, non-artificial, might I say, no artificial sweeteners. Both male
and girly vocals are so persuasive. Tracy Chapman feels like you’re in
the studio with her. Everything so clear, natural sounding, every
inflection, every note, that sadly mournful, yet clinging to that last
lingering ounce of hope for the future. So emotively alive and real.<br />
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In strict quantity terms, they aren’t as mid stand out as most other
reference type products, these have nudged the bass up a smidge and the
mids are only a teeny bit. Just the slightest of nudges yet they have
so much clarity and detail that I don’t care. Vocals aren’t that Shure
like, hyper fluid and smooth like, better than the actually vocalist
sort. These are aimed at a natural reproduction, tone, body, air and
breathy nuance. Be it Barbara’s “Papa Can You Hear Me” or Michael
Ball’s “Tell me There’s a Heaven” Or Barbara’s “Send In The Clown’s”
good lord that woman can sing, these do her so well. Either belting a
note out or as softly delicate as you can imagine. There is a reason
these have been the IEM I’ve been using most days for the last 6 months.
They do all the things I care about supremely well.<br />
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Highs: So if there could be anywhere these may not find fans it could
be here. These are not bright, in your face and if you wanted a new
RE272 you’re not getting it here. Flicking back and forth they haven’t
that, “neutral” treble, it is like the old 0 , being ever so gently
tapered off. While this may not make for the most sparkling
presentation its one that is so easy on the ear. Again, there is a
reason this has been my default thing to pick up for the last 6 months.
These are not the most wild of trebles, its’s tamed, its nudged gently
in the direction of polite. The detail levels it can do are every bit
as good as the RE272 ever was and these actually surpass it if you
listen close and have the right pairing. These are very VERY detailed
but it’s not in your face detail. So much so that you can completely
get away with so so recordings. I don’t know about you but a lot of the
music I like is not well made, mastered or recorded and here I can
enjoy the finest of recordings and still like the badly made stuff.<br />
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The treble though isn’t all completely forgiving, due to the thing being
so very VERY highly detailed it means that it’s got the clarity and
speed to hit notes hard. You feed it a hard-edgy treble, looking at you
Owl City, and it will impact hard, a little too hard my ears. I mean I
can’t fault the RE800 for accurately playing back what they are being
fed but…. This is the danger with super high-end audio stuff, you find
music you like isn’t well made so once or twice I was tracking skipping I
liked on lesser things because it was just to clean and hard edged.
The actual quality is when you find some really fine recordings which
unfortunately all seem to be classical the mellitic clash of a cymbal
comes across with a refinement and natural delicacy to it that is
unspeakably real. It is superb and comes the closest in an IEM to truly
being real yet it’s hard to focus on it alone. The coherency you get
from this being a single dynamic means everything is so well integrated
nothing artificially stands on its own. Great for listening to, a pain
in the behind for reviewing and even more so given the lack of superbly
recorded treble happy music. Still the Chesky demo disc with “sweet
Georgia Brown” has a morass of treble notes all splashing in from every
direction and its hugely impressive. The detail and refinement these
display is so great and yet so casually presented it really isn’t until
you go back to something lesser that you fully apricate the difference.<br />
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Soundstage: It like the treble seems so natural, so beguiling, it’s
just sort of there and you don’t really have the typical awareness of
the tiny speakers in your ears that most do. Even whipping out those
IE8’s which were once spoken of as a miraculous achievement in terms of
their soundstage and the vastness of it. These don’t feel huge, they
just don’t but they don’t feel enclosed. They capture that quality the
RE252 had and I never felt I could really quite describe. The audio
seems to come into existence rather be “created” just a fraction of an
inch from your ear drum. It is somehow magically just present as though
it had happened though some space/time portal. I realise it doesn’t
really quite make sense as a description but if I could find the words
I’d use them. There is a quality whereby things just are, not enclosed,
not distance, things just are. It’s a very “natural” sound like
listening to the real thing but coming form an IEM, I can’t help but
feel it to be a peculiar sensation.<br />
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Comfort: Great. Nothing particularly notable or eventful about them.
They are round, universal in ear things like many others and I could
wear them happily up or down and for many hours at a time with no
problems. A little more bulbous than the 600 before it so a bit bigger
but I never had any issues in the slightest.<br />
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Fit: Super, shoved in ears and was done. Given its me I went right to
the included Comply’s because when reviewing find silicon’s just give
that little bit of suction when removing. These are vented so I
wouldn’t expect anyone to have any real issues with them.<br />
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Cable: Well….. its actually pretty nice. It’s not blowing me away but
it’s back to the kind that were on the RE2x2 range and not, the clothe
weave ones from the RE0 and 400 and 600. While I know that cable on
them was selected for its acoustic properties and yes they did sound
great but……I still never liked the feel of them. This however is, I
think, a considerable improvement. Its rubbery coated and feels very
flexible though I do strangely like the metal Y splitter and the chin
slider, while I’m sure a plastic one would have done the job just as
well, I like that it, the jack and the buds are all matching metal.<br />
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Microphonics: Worn up none. If you insist on wearing down then yeah
there was a little but the cable does a pretty good job of absorbing the
vibrations and you can use the chin slider to remove the issue entirely
if you want.<br />
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Aesthetics: Well, on the whole I like but….. I’m not wild about the
gold. I’ve never been keen on gold and if I’m super honest, I’d rather
they were just plain brass as there would be a certain honesty and
purity in that. Mind you I’m hoping that we might see some limited
editions in the future with more colours, not that the colour really
matters but you know. Yet weirdly while I don’t love the gold buds I
rather like the golden Y splitter and chin slider, maybe it’s that they
are next to the black cable? It least it’s all a matte, sand blasted
gold finish so it’s not super shiny.<br />
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Accessories: You get the standard, bunch of tips which now includes
some Comply’s so yey! Then you get the little plain black case and less
commonly, some ear guide things, if you like that sort of thing. I
don’t use the guides but I’m pleased to see them included as it always
pains me when I see people using a high quality IEM and then are just
wearing them straight down.<br />
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Amped/Unamped: They do have an impedance of 60 ohms so, don’t expect
any old thing to do super amazing things with them but…..my itty bitty
1G Ipod Shuffles actually sounded bloody good driving them. The hiss of
the Shuffle got in my a face a couple times with the brighter tonality
and more brittle nature of it, it made tracks that were hissy, seem
extremely so. Still, for a thing so ancient it did a hugely fun attempt
at high end audio. Seriously, the slightly warm slant of the 800 took
on a liveliness that really worked for mainstream pop music. Dancing in
your chair, mouthing along to the words, it really was impressively and
surprisingly fun a combination. Not the most grown up pairing
obviously. Flicking to the Pixel and…. Well the background was much
blacker and arguably of a more mature tonality and style. While it was
really very very listenable for a phone I don’t see me retiring separate
DAP/s anytime soon. Still the impedance rating really wasn’t the
nightmare it could have been, not having a crossover in it meant there
wasn’t any wild swings (cough Westone, cough) in their tonal balance.
Ditto with adding the Ety impedance adapter, which you know I love to
do. That that pushes the impedance super high for an IEM, so your phone
or so so DAP wont probably like it if you do.<br />
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Isolation: Well in most regards these are hitting it out of the park by
most IEM standards but…. These are dynamics and they are vented. Only a
little bit vented so while for a dynamic their isolation is actually
really good but it still won’t hold a candle to a pair of deep seating
BA IEM’s. It is the same argument you get with headphones, open vs
closed. Open has generally considerably superior properties but they
don’t block out anything so they are not as useful in all situations.
While its less extreme as these do isolate pretty well and I have been
absolutely using them on a bus and on flights, if I had a daily Tube
commute, probably not so much.<br />
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Build Quality: If there is an area where HIFIMAN traditionally gets
flack, it’s the build, okay specifically the cables on the 400 and 600.
They rubbed many people the wrong way and while year they sounded
great, I for one shall not be mourning the loss of that cloth weave on
the outside. I’ve had no issues so far and I do like the jack. The
jack is big and beefy that you will maybe want to keep away from your
phones screen. I like it though, big chunky beast of a thing. Still
the main improvement is the cable, it feels so much better in the hand
than the one on the v1 RE600 and 400.<br />
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Value: Well let’s face it, at this price we are into diminishing
returns and these are not 20 times better than the RE00. However,
nothing is, a Ferrari isn’t 20 times better than a Ford but if you go to
a Ferrari show room and your thinking about which is the best “value
for money” you have totally missed the point. If you want the highest
reaches of performance, then you had best prepare your wallet for a
beating. You know, while US$699 is a fair chunk of change, in terms of
speakers it’s a drop in the ocean so you could say these are super
awesome amazing value compared to what you’d pay to get this level of
audio quality in a speaker set up. To date, these are, I think, my
favourite IEM out there. If ever was there an IEM made especially for
me and my ears, it is basically this.<br />
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Conclusion: Right off the bat I can state with no equivocation that
these are a magnificent work of acoustic art. I know bits of their
design and construction and I realise that saying, oh we painted
patterns on the driver sounds like, big deal, so what. However, it
really actually is a monumental step away from what the industry has
been doing for years. Instead of making diagrams ever stiffer to combat
deformation and ripples HIFIMAN has said, okay so it’s impossible so
let’s aim to control them instead. This is not unlike is attempted in
BMR (Balanced Mode Radiator) speakers and despite being on teeny little
IEM drivers, it works. Holy crap does it work too. It sounds like such
a simple little thing, I mean how much distortion could there be on the
driver anyway right?<br />
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The tonal balance on these and the purity with which they are capable is
a real feat of engineering, sure they are a hint warmed so treble
junkies or those with high end hearing loss may want something more
bright but good lord, sooooo much detail. If anything, these are well
into the territory whereby the biggest problem they face is showing up
flaws you don’t want to hear. So much music isn’t well made and while
these are trying to be forgiving and not thrusting it in your face…… its
so easy to notice if you have a keen ear. I did find that some tracks I
just had to skip because they just aren’t well made and the 800
presents it all so cleanly its completely noticeable. It may not count
as the worst flaw ever but it is a problem. However, once the music
industry, as happened with TV when HD came in, they will begin to tidy
up background rubbish that shouldn’t be there.<br />
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So would I buy a pair? Well my wallet wouldn’t be thrilled but these
are about as close to what I would make for me if I was making an IEM.
The tonal purity, the clarity they are capable of, the expressiveness
that strings and and brass instruments can portray is sublime. You can
auraly melt into everything, not just hearing music but it speaking
directly to your soul, washing over and through your senses. They are
so accurate and detailed yet have zero coherency or timing issues which
you tend to get with crossovers and multi driver setups. The more
drivers, the harder it gets and with some things now having 14 drivers
per ear, the scope there for anyone thing being just even the most tiny
of hints out smears the audio. A single driver means none of that takes
place and no crossover where either drivers have to work over each
other, smearing as their performance will never be perfectly the same,
or you dip them so they don’t shout over each other. Sure some
multi-drivers are still awesome but I’ve not met one that sounds so
completely integrated sonically.<br />
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In short, the RE800 is a masterpiece of engineering and of audio art.
It won’t be all things to all men but I would very much doubt that
anyone who listens to one won’t give it the praise and respect it
commands. There is so far, in my opinion, no finer audiophile IEM.
Timing, coherence, tonality, timbre are all as fine as its sounds
signature is sublime and beautiful.
9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-85595244401187494222017-06-23T22:34:00.003+01:002017-06-23T22:34:32.227+01:00HIFIMAN RE800 Earphone Quick Review by mark2410HIFIMAN RE800 Earphone Quick Review by mark2410<br />
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Disclaimer: I work with HFIMAN so feel free not to believe me if you so wish.<br />
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Brief: Solid Gold.<br />
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Price: US$699 or £649<br />
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Specifications: Frequency Response: 20Hz-20kHz, Impedance: 60Ω,
Sensitivity: 105dB, Topology Diaphragm, 9.2mm Dynamic Driver, Brass
Housing, Silver Coated, Crystalline Copper Wire<br />
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Accessories: You get a handful of tips, though I still find them a
little on the small side. For small Chinese ears maybe? Whatever but
the ones I’m really interested is the inclusion of a couple pairs of
Comply’s so they are what I go to right off. Oh, and the ear guides and
the little case.<br />
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Build Quality: Rather nice, the cable is a great big step up on the
original RE600 one, the jack too its some great lump of metal so phone
screens beware. The buds are solid metal too so short of putting them
in a vice they should be pretty sturdy.<br />
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Isolation: For a dynamic, very good but…. not quite up to BA levels so
if you have a Tube commute they wouldn’t be my first option but I
repeatedly used on buses and on a couple flights quite happily. Should
be enough for most people in most situations.<br />
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Comfort/Fit: Excellent on both counts. Nothing unusual, rounded
symmetrical buds that went in the ear with a shove and that was that.
No venting issues and I wore for several hours at a time with not issues
at all.<br />
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Aesthetics: I have mixed feelings, I don’t love gold but I do like the
matte sandblasted type finish. I would just prefer they were black or
silver rather than gold but in fairness, I’ve just never liked gold.<br />
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Sound: If I had made an IEM for myself, it would be more or less this.
They have a slanted sound signature to the bass and a little subdued in
the treble but that works perfectly for me. If you’re going to listen
to for hours on end you need something easy on the ear and these are.
They are rich and mellow, so smooth and with such clarity they make
everything look effortless and easy. The bass is superb, so sculpted
you can practically reach out and touch it. The mids are a little touch
back in comparison but have such a broad scope, such an incredibly
natural texture and tone to them. Male or female, oh good god and
strings, strings are so fantastically good. The timbre, the tactility, I
cannot just feel the strings vibrating in my hand but I can feel what
it is to be the string like I’m staring into its soul. It’s strange and
freaky that you can just lose yourself into what is nothing more than a
harmonic wave. Granted you need some extremely good quality music to
really abandon the outside world and create your own mini heaven as you
trundle into work or wherever.<br />
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Everything sounds so real and dreamy and captivating yet it makes it all
look so completely effortless. It feels so relaxed and confident in
its paragon like virtues you really need to spend time with it and
explore what it can do as it’s so completely non-attention seeking in
its presentation. It is simply wonderful sounding.<br />
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Value: Wallet ouch yeah but have a listen then it won’t seem so much.<br />
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Pro’s: Sublime. Sonically capable to such a degree, tone and coherence it puts others to shame.<br />
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Con’s: Won’t have enough treble for some tastes. Isn’t very aggressive.
9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-6841699241606335872016-12-11T19:52:00.004+00:002016-12-11T19:52:42.086+00:00Accutone Gemini HD Earphone Review by mark2410<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f5f5ff; color: black; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
Accutone Gemini HD Earphone Review by mark2410</div>
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Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.audio.accutone.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Accutone</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the sample.</div>
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TLDR? Try here <a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/828710/accutone-gemini-hd-earphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13079956" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/828710/accutone-gemini-hd-earphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13079956</a></div>
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First Impressions: Hmm, I am still not loving Accutone’s strange naming system. Looking at their website I’m not sure what these are supposed to have in common with the normal Gemini but whatever, these are the HD one. Now I see in pic’s that they look fantastically pretty. I mean damn they look bloody good don’t they!!! Getting the things in my hand and whipping open the box and err, what. Okay this is just weird, the shiny metal bits in the pics are covered in a layer of rubber. Erm well that’s different. I presume you’re just supposed to peal it off right? Oh and there are some of the audio filters, erm where is the silver one? Oh Accutone seriously??? So while you show silver filters, only silver filters on your website they don’t actually have silver filters. Honestly Accutone you need to find whoever authorised your website, punch them repeatedly in the face then fire them and then all the marketing interns you turned the consumer audio division over too. I mean why only show silver filters when you don’t do a silver filter???? I mean who thought that was a good idea and then who okayed it??? Seriously even a double face palm doesn’t come close to how much face palm is here.</div>
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So they came with the red filters on, giving those a try and hmm, bassy. I’m not wild about this nor am I seeing that this is deserving to be called Clarity as you website states is their default tuning. The manual however says the red is the bassy, so let’s nudge in the middle option, the err greenish yellow one. Okay now that is much better, good god that is an improvement. I’m still in a bad mood, that website needs to be killed with fire but these filters, ugly colour aside and actually pretty damn good. Finally Accutone seems to be getting its audio on. </div>
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Lows: Good, well just skip the red filter I don’t want it manages to do but just skip it, it makes things so muddy that I can find no reasonable explanation for. The bile coloured ones, now those are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better. Better that I’m looking at the price tag and thinking yep, I’d pay that. Nooo, seriously, an Accutone that I’m liking, liking rather a lot. Not only do the look super these actually have audio that’s as accordingly decent. The bass it’s the biggest, nor is it the deepest but its super clean. Its practically BA clean, hard, unyielding and lithe. Now they do want a bit of power to be their best but when you de they toughen up like granite. Weeeeeeeee!!!! Firing up, well anything really and they are fantastic. Yey!!!! I was beginning to think Accutone was a bust but turns out they’ve got some audio chops after all. Super clean, hard unyielding and well sculpted bass. Now I might like a smidge more but stay away from the red filter, it sucks. The blue one, while super pretty it’s a bit light for me, tbh I suspect for anyone without out hearing loss issues. </div>
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Quantity wise these are verging towards reference level, a tiny sliver over and they don’t quite have the extreme linearly as they go down like on an Ety but there are so much more eager to rise up when called upon and the have a wonderful degree of articulation when driven well. So much agility for dynamic, like a Bernina sculpture its flows effortlessly yet retains a marble hardness beneath. Wooo yey there are gorgeous sounding and playfully beautiful in their renditions.</div>
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Mids: Fantastic. That same quality as with the bass, so cleanly sculpted and finely detailed, it’s exquisitely beautiful. Ahhh so pretty, so so much pretty. Firing up Beverly Craven’s “Promise Me” and she is awe inspiring. I’m a big fan of her vocal talents (even though her last couple albums weren’t so great) here she is on farm and the HD’s flow with such effortless melody and intonation in the vocals that its al just such a joy to listen to. Honestly after the Pieces these are just so fantastically different, these can’t have been made by the same team. Time and gain vocal heavy tracks would come on and their performance would be just so perfect. Neither creamy nor dry they are just so damn well spot on!!! Even stuff with mediocre vocals such as Reliant K’s “Lost Boy” I find I’m having a hard time not bursting into song. They have that not quite definable awesomeness something that just captures the essence of vocal joy in abundance. Every vocal just has some magical glaze upon it, everything sounds so wonderful, everything. From Fiona Apple’s angry yet soft “Limp” to the tear inducing “Papa Can You Hear Me?” from Miss Streisand the HD’s do them all so wonderfully well I want more and more.</div>
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Quantity wise with the bass being not super heavy they may come across are being a bitty middy, bit mid centric which well maybe isn’t technically true but there are relatively middy to most things. Vocals are so good, so well rendered while with such tonal brilliance that I have no complaints, the mids are so well done why not have lots of them.</div>
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Highs: Hmm. Well tbh I almost forget about the highs with the mids being so nice as they are the treble is, well it’s a bit behind the treble and with it by smidge a good dynamic it’s rather refined. It’s not edgy, in your face detail and the more power you throw at them the better behaved and refined the treble becomes. However I really had trouble playing things with heavy treble. The mids were so well done that I constantly found I was skipping any track that wasn’t heavily vocal. Making myself fire up “Cave In” and even well amped there is some treble detail loss. These are more about the pleasing ear friendly shimmer than they are about the sharp edge of a treble note. Super great for me and its being not too reduced in abundance this style is more easy on my treble sensitive ears. There is a reason why I love treble as displayed by a good dynamic and these here, are a very good dynamic.</div>
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So despite it’s not hard edgy bight they are stupid agile on the bass and glorious in the mids so even fast treble centric songs like “Cave In” They can fire everything with spades of alacrity and never does it even hint at breaking up the treble and getting scratchy. Super behaviour, exactly how it ought to be done.</div>
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Soundstage: They are pretty good. They do a nicely rounding sensation, not gobs of distance yet I don’t mind. They are a pleasing encompassing rendition side to side and a little bit fore and back depth. The can do volume really well but scale and grandeur not so much. Vocals can be a little upfront and in wile not right up in your face, they are right in front of you.</div>
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Fit: Good. The Comply’s on and in the ears they went. No issues. Not very deep sitting but no bother.</div>
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Comfort: Like the fit, fine. I could wear up or down fine and despite their slightly sharp edged enclosure it was fine and I could wear for several hours at time with no problems.</div>
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Microphonics: No chin slider but even wearing down they didn’t really have any. Wearing up there was none at all, even deliberately hitting the cable. Yey!</div>
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Aesthetics: Well I’m still a little bit bitter about there not being a silver filter, because let’s face it the pics with it all in silver look awesome. Though it does mean I can pick the filter based on sound and not feel like I must use the silver for aesthetic reasons. Though I’d be lying if I said I like the bile coloured filter. The rod and especially the blue look lush though, that blue, soooooo pretty. The rest of the things in silver and white and they do look pretty damn good. Well once you peel off that weird rubber coating, that’s just weird.</div>
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Cable: It’s alright. Tbh I wasn’t super loving it nor hating it or really having any feelings about it. Its fine, it’s not interesting.</div>
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Isolation: They are dynamics and well they aren’t super high isolators. A little bit of a shame as they are fine for out and about but pushing towards not so much for a bus. I mean I would use them on a bus but they aren’t super great for it. Flights and Tube, na I don’t think so. Naturally they will be more than to get your accidently run over because you didn’t hear traffic. Eyes people.</div>
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Accessories: Hmm. Yeah they still have the Accutone case that they don’t really fit in. They will go if you shove them in but frankly I’m not pleased with that case. The tips selection is strangely Spartan, no silicones. However about the filters, they really need to take a life out of Trinity’s book and get those little metal tubes to keep them in. Seriously though what’s with the no silicone tips? I mean I’m fine with the Comply’s but it’s strange.</div>
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Phone Use: Great. Accutone have a background in headsets and it shows, again I was told they sounded particularly good and that was even wearing them up. So if you’re on the phone a lot, bonus.</div>
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Amped/Unamped: Well you don’t really ever “need” to amp things but these definitely responded well to amping. Very well and if you buy a pair then you really ought to amp them. Throw power at these little baby’s and they will take it all and spit it back out at you with oodles of audio loveliness. Seriously, if you only ever run them out of your phone you will be missing out and the wonderfully midrange rendition that these are capable off. Yes they will still sound good but not all they can be.</div>
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Value: Yey!!! They aren’t the cheapest things ever but they really come to life and so deserve their US$130 price tag. I’m not saying you can’t beat them and there aren’t other things better, especially if you want a lot of bass but I’m super pleased with these and their mid-range talents.</div>
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Conclusion: Well I had been about convinced that Accutone had lost the plot, the Pieces and the Taurus, well they, let’s just maybe pretend they don’t exist shall we. These, now I’ve no idea what the normal Gemini are like but these are cracking little wonders. Get that bile filter on them and the balance is fabulous and the mids are sublime. Sooooo scrummy that I just wanted more and more of it. Every vocal on them got a dusting of audio crack. So tonally pure, so clean and effortless. Squeeee, just all so good!!! Literally every vocal on them sounded good, even completely crap vocals. Excellent stuff</div>
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Down side wise, well just silly little things, like the no silver filter, that case that’s too thin. The weird rubber coating on the buds. The lack of any reasonable way to store the other filters. Frankly the only things it does wrong are things you can completely ignore and tbh, “accidently” losing the red filters isn’t something I’d shed a tear over. Quite what they do to muddy everything so badly just to increase the bass, go buy a bass boosting amp if you want more bass. Hell even EQ’ing more bass in would be better than that filter.</div>
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So would I / should you buy one? Yep. Yep. Well for you, you have to like a reasonably middy signature, not vast bass and not hard brutal treble. If you want a V shaped beast then these wont suit you but otherwise I can’t think of any other reason why you shouldn’t. These are a fabulous showing from Accutone and shows that they can spit out some damn fine audio quality. Though can I just suggest, maybe change the bile coloured filter to just a plain silver one? Yeah seriously my biggest complaint is the filter is an ugly colour. Love the sound from these little beauties. </div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.audio.accutone.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Accutone</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the sample.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Brief: Mids to die for.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Price: US$129 which is about £102</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Specifications: Err, an 8mm Beryllium driver and impedance is 20 Ohms.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Accessories: So you get 2 pairs of Comply’s and no silicone tips. 3 pairs of tuning filters and a case that is too thin to fit the things without shoving them in. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Isolation: Alright, not super great but fine for out and about and just enough for bus use. Flight and Tube not so much. Still you’ll need to remember and use your eyes near traffic or get yourself killed.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Comfort/Fit: Good, absolutely zero issues on either front, wearing up or down despite their angular edged outer. Happy to wear them for hours and hours at a time. Nice.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Sound: Well prior to this my experiences with Accutone had not be stellar. Then these came in with the red filters. Sigh. They were not great. Then I changed to the bile coloured filters and suddenly they were a completely different product. Not just did they no longer suck, they were actually good, very good, damn fine good in fact. The mids in particular become outstanding. I don’t know where they were hiding, maybe I’m having a stroke, god knows. The bass is super clean for a dynamic and really shines when amped, its death isn’t super linear but in the more typical bass things its sooo clean and sculpted. No mid bass hump, though not it’ll be bass light for more mainstream folks but try to resist using the red filter, EQ or bass boosting amp it instead. Then the treble is nicely refined, little bit more inclined to the shimmer and it doesn’t really ever give a hard edgy bight which is super fine with me. Though if you want brutality or details hurled at you this won’t do that. It’s got a sublime tonality and the mid-range being slightly prominent are so sumptuously flowing. Top marks for the vocals, I don’t know what they did but they are so beautifully rendered, rich and yet not creamed and thickened, such grace to them. Just fantastically good and ear pleasing vocals on these. Love them.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Value: Well they aren’t unbeatable but the mids are just so gorgeous that I’d have not a seconds hesitation in slapping down a hundred quid for them.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Pro’s: Mids to die for. So graceful and clean. Delicately beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Con’s: The “green” filter is more bile coloured. The red filter sounds sucky.</span></div>
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Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://uk.1more.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1MORE UK</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the review sample.</div>
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TLDR? Try here <a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/828671/1more-dual-driver-in-ear-headphones-e0323-review-by-mark2410#post_13079237" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/828671/1more-dual-driver-in-ear-headphones-e0323-review-by-mark2410#post_13079237</a></div>
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First Impressions: This is the second things I’ve had from 1More and this is the next rung down from the Triple-Driver I had before. It was nothing short of brilliance and was one of the stars of Canjam London this year, its quality to cost ratio had to be scaring a lot of makers out there. So this, well it’s got some serious living up to do. The box, well aside from being unable to slide off the band thing, so I had to rip it which I don’t like doing, then opening up the flap, is nice. I had forgotten how nice a box 1MORE put together on the Triple. This is a seriously impressive start. It isn’t quite as fancy as the Triple but come on. They really have the presentation thing down cold. Hmm I’m not sure I’m wild about their colouring scheme though. It would appear that the Triple, Dual and a single driver version all utilise the same housing and they are differentiated by the colour scheme. The Triple had the black and gold thing, these are white and gold. I’m not sure I love it, it’s a little bit feminine, bit girly looking. Not that such things bother me, I’d wear a neon pink earphone covered in rhinestones if it sounded great still, this wouldn’t be my visual top choice. Mind you there is something such about the cable. The white with the tight cloth weave on it, there is something almost silvery about it.</div>
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In the ears and well, god damn it they are good. I say damn it because the better things are the more time they take to review, the more things you need to listen to, to really grasp the most intricate of nuances and details. These are going to certainly require my pulling out their big brothers and some A/B’ing but right now I can say with confidence. These are sweary word good. The anly real question is looks aside why would you pick these over their Triple driver siblings?</div>
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Source: FiiO E7/E9 combo, Hisoundaudio Studio V 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anv., HiFiMAN HM-650, 1G Ipod Shuffle, Nexus 5, Lumia 735 and Graham Slee Solo Ultra Linear.</div>
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Lows: Well the plain and simple fact of the matter is these are outstanding. If I hadn’t played with the Triple’s previously I would be screaming form the roof tops as to just how superb these are. They are stunningly good, the tuning on them is just fantastically good. These are so good there really isn’t the words to quite say how well done these are. They are so tuneful, so playful, so marvellous, so vigorous, so adeptly polite, so versatile!!!!! Good god these are such fantastic generalists I think we can safely say the GR07 is no longer the king of the generalists for the price. The things is though, while these are by any measure stunners, their siblings, the Triples, are just as good in the bass. The may be technically over heavy but the way human hearing works they don’t sound especially so and the tonality, good god that chap they brought in to tune things knows his stuff. Now for HeadFi it is a bit over heavy so purists may tur up their noses a bit, these are more bassy than they should be, they are no question. However they are so well done. They are just so well articulated that despite the boosting, even on very bass heavy tracks it’s near impeccably behaved. </div>
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As faults go, there really is none to speak of. A truly superb showing.</div>
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Mids: Ahhh now here we just start to get a sliver of differentiation from the Triple, it’s not huge, it really is not at all huge. Running them both out of my phone I can barely spot the difference at first. More drivers does not always men better. And the mids are just not so detailed and difficulty that you can focus in on something as spot the change. The Duals are F*ing bloody good. Bouncing from the fat blond girl to Barbara Streisand and they effortlessly change, in an instant, good god they can do anything you ask of them and do it stupidly well. When you’re trying to find faults and trying to track skip, this is so distracting. I keep hitting tracks that are so enjoyable that this is eating waaaay more time than I want it to. They are just so bloody good.</div>
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Tonally they are practically perfect. I could say that on occasion they can be a tiny sliver warmed, slightly buttery too. So the most breathy vocals aren’t quite as breathy and dry as they could be but I’m looking for problems. If you just listen you would never notice anything wrong. They are near tonally perfect. In quantity too they are a hair behind the slightly big bass but they are so unencumbered by the bass. There are flawless, really they are just excellent. Anything that came on them was just food for the soul and I find I’m adoring them in a way that’s crazy for 80 quid.</div>
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Highs: Ah ha!! I’ve found where they differentiate form the Triple. Okay now its not a big change, seriously its soooo not a big change but if you keep your ear pealed and listen from a good source, and with a wall mastered trebly track and playing at good bit rates you can tell. Yes you can tell that these don’t do quite as well as the Triple. However they are as close as near damn it to be almost inseparable. The Triple is just that fraction more noticeable and more detailed. It can resolve that tiny bit more detail but when running off my phone I really don’t feel like I would notice in use. These are superb, outstandingly excellent audio quality. They do like to have a bit more power than the Triples though, when amped well they are super close but on the Lumia which is brighter than the Nexus 5 you can see more a opening between them. The little BA driver in them is working its little socks off and the two of them in the Triple have an accordingly easier time of it. Still, its freakishly good performance. </div>
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In terms of quantity they are very near the bass / mid line, just a hair behind the bass and matching the mids. They are though not the most edgy treble for a BA. So they aren’t as instantly in your face with details in the way some BA’s like to do as to bump up the perceptibility of the detail retrieval. Still they quality if you listen to them driven well is so good. Big name venders should be looking at 1MORE and be worried.</div>
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Soundstage: Good. A nicely sized room, power and scale they can do with ease. Distance not quite so well and they aren’t super with the forward and back distance. Instrument separation though is really quite good, and at the same time is pretty well integrated. There is little to fault them on.</div>
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Fit: Great. I could wear them up or down as I felt like with no bother at all. I mostly wore up and with the foam tips on it was great. In they went and that was it, job done.</div>
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Comfort: Excellent. While I’m not wild about their size and shape once they were in my ears I never noticed them. They aren’t the most deep sitting so for IEM’s there are a little shallow but I only find that an issue if you wear down. Wearing down I feel like things are going to get pulled out of my ears, up I never have that issue.</div>
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Microphonics: Well there is no chin slider so if you wear them down, you do a bit. The cable is pretty good though. Now wearing up which can look a bit off with their shape but it removed the issue. Seems odd that they would miss out on a chin slider given the attention to detail they otherwise have.</div>
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Aesthetics: Hmmm. Yeah I’m not wild oubt the shape of the things but that isn’t really the issue. The thing is, these are white and an almost rose gold colour. Now I’d happily wear hot pink earphones if they sound great (which these do) so I don’t really care, much. Still, come on, these look super girly. I mean yeah, but no, no that colour I just can’t see many males going for it. </div>
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Build Quality: Well like pretty much everything about them, I can’t fault anything. They are metal buds, the Y splitter and jack are metal, the cable is a cloth weave thing, it’s all visually impeccable. There really isn’t anything that I can question in their build, they are flawless little buggers.</div>
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Cable: Visually it’s super pretty but it’s a tiny bit kinky. It’s not so kinky that it’s a problem but once or twice when unravelling I’ve seen a kink or two and had to stop to unravel the cable properly. Can you tell I’m reaching for complaints?</div>
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Isolation: So so. They are not bad or anything and with their being hybrids they aren’t usually bad or anything for things with a dynamic in them. They are about whit is typical but then you add that up with their sitting relatively shallow. They are fine for most uses, out and about, on a bus. Even the odd flight or Tube trip you’d survive. Naturally what you may not survive is crossing roads if you fail to use your eyes properly, you won’t hear traffic.</div>
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Accessories: So mostly good, okay mostly good but I’m not super totally pleased. You see, they have a nice case that’s usable, some silicone tips, a nice shirt clip and an aircraft adapter. Yet no foamy tips, seriously stuff the aircraft adapter and shirt clip if needs be. Not that the silicone tips where bad or anything but with such a lovely packaging it surprised me there wasn’t a pair.</div>
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Phone Use: The buttons worked fine and I was told that I was clear on the other end. That was with me wearing them up too sat hi mic up nearer my ear so that’s good.</div>
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Amped/Unamped: Ahh just like their siblings, the Triple, these you do want to amp if you can. There is no question they respond very well to having power thrown at them. That little BA doing the mids and treble by itself needs that power even more than the Triple does. Okay, okay, so they don’t exactly “need” to be amped but they are of a quality level where you see the natural benefits from it but that the drivers in them are capable. They need given power to really perform at their best and when you go from a well amped source to your phone, well they just have a spark of life sucked out of them. They will perform well and beat most things at their price but I know there is more in them. Like a layer of mist having creeped in and hiding things from me. They want power, they want a lot of it and they are good enough to really reward you if you use a proper output for them. By proper I mean not your phone. Your phone will make them sound good but not all they can be.</div>
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Value: Well if I’d never heard the Triple id be saying woooooo shut up and take my money!!! The trouble is I have the Triples here and while there may not be a vast gulf in their performances, there isn’t a vast gulf in their price either. I mean if your budget is ultra-strict these are great value, absolutely no question of that, you more than get your money’s worth. But…… I just don’t know when I might ever say, save the 20 quid difference and get the Dual over the Triple. Unless you really want their white and gold colouring I just can’t see me ever saying get these to anyone. The Triple is soooooo near, just 20 quid more and while many may barely notice the improvements the Triple offers over the excellent Dual’s it still makes me pause. Yes the Dual’s are on their own merits excellent audio quality for you money, they really are. (But buy the Triple instead.)</div>
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Conclusion: Well these are little stunners, they absolutely are stunning, no question about that. However…… if I had played with these before the Triple I could more or less leave that statement on its own but I have played with the Triple. The fact is while they are acoustically very similar (both stunning) that I would 99.9 times out a hundred always say get the Triple instead. Unless that 20 quid difference is crucial to you then just trust me and take the Triple. If you don’t you’ll always wish you had even if you couldn’t tell them apart acoustically. The only reason I can realistically ever see taking the Dual’s is because you love their colouring. That’s it, while they sonically stunning the only reason to buy them is because you think they are more pretty.</div>
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In terms of negatives, well there isn’t any per say. If we forget the Triples for a moment, there is nothing that the Duals aren’t superb at, except maybe isolation. They aren’t the most high isolating things ever but they would easy do most people for most uses. There really isn’t any down side. Well they look rather girly if that counts. That really is about as bad as I can find to say about them, they look girly and an all BA thing can isolate better. It’s hardly a damning list is it?</div>
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So would I / should you buy one? Me? If the triples dint exist, yes in a heartbeat. You? Well if you’re a girl and you think these look more pretty than the Triple then sure, absolutely and you will utterly adore them to bit. Otherwise, I’m always going to say take the tiny bit more wallet pain and get the triples. While they may be cracking things on their own it’s impossible to view them out of context from the Triple and the Triple just pips them sonically. A stunningly and mightily significant dual driver hybrid from 1More that will likely and undeservingly fall into obscurity, ever so faintly outshone by its superior sibling.</div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://uk.1more.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1MORE UK</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the review sample.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Brief: 1MORE for the ladies.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Price: £79.99</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Specifications: Frequency Range: 20-20,000 Hz / Plug: 3.5 mm Gold Plated Color: White With Brushed Gold</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Accessories: </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="line-height: normal;">6 sets of silicone ear tips of various sizes, Magnetic clasping traveling case, Attractive storage case, Quality dual prong airline adapter, Matching shirt clip.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Build Quality: Flawless, I can’t spot any imperfections. The cable is a little bit kinky but that’s it.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Isolation: Pretty good for a hybrid and thus with a dynamic. Easily fine for on a bus or out and about use. Even the odd Tube or flight should be fine. As always you will then need to use your eyes for noticing traffic, or get run over.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Comfort/Fit: They were perfectly comfy for me to wear up, for hours at a time. The fit was a bit shallow so I need the big foam tips but then was fine in use.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Aesthetic: Well there are kinda pretty, the white with the almost rose gold is pretty but…… yeah its super girly. Now that doesn’t really bother me enough to not use but they are certainly not the most masculine of looking earphones. One for the ladies I think.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1481465849072_1701" style="line-height: normal;">Sound: Excellent. These are stupid good, really they are seriously stupidly good. They really do show that you don’t need 50 drivers to sound good, these are really super seriously good. However……. They are just so closely priced to the Triple and while there isn’t very much in it acoustically between them, why wouldn’t you pick the Triple over these? The only real reason I can find is because you like how these look more. In terms of the audio these are stunning, the bass is every bit as great as the triple, large but so well controlled and articulated. It’s impeccably behaved yet well scaled for those who like their bass. Sure it’s a bit more than there ought to be but so what. The mids too are sublime, really approaching perfection, maybe a tiny sliver over warmed and creamy. The treble too could be said to be a little forgiving and polite but at the price, so what, these are amazeballs crazy good. Their balance and tuning is so brilliantly done, so incredibly good, really these are amazing sounding. They walk the line of mainstream and audiophile yet are so good that both will love them to bits, seriously good audio and with a bass that will please mainstream listeners too.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">However, they are just 20 quid less than the Triple and while they are only a tiny bit better and they need driven well for you to really notice it I just don’t see any circumstances other than looks for me to say get these not the Triple instead. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Value: Super-duper excellent…… but seriously buy the Triple’s instead.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Pro’s: Sound incredibly good. Astoundingly good value.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Con’s: The Triple is better and only a tiny bit more money.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">aLLreLi X100 Gaming Mouse Review by mark2410</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Thanks to</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.allreli.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: normal;">aLLreLi</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="line-height: normal;">for the sample.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">First Impressions: Hmmm the box isn’t anything too fancy, curious that the front pic doesn’t show the cable sticking out, why do mice product images often do that? Anyway opening it up and we have the mouse in bubble wrap, a little CD with drivers and some bits of plastic. Errr, oh I get what they are, they are replacement feet for the mouse. Oh that’s kinda a nice additions I think, though I’d bet most normal folk will have lost them long before they need them. Nice though you get them and it’s not their fault if you lose them. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Plugging it in I notice that the cable is a pretty sturdy thing. The cable has still got the kinks where it was folded in the box. Hmmm I could see if that cable bumps into things it would impede movement which is why I normally go with wireless. Though it’s not the first time mid instance where the batteries have died. Which may or may not be how I broke my old mouse trying to remove batteries one handed while controlling movements as best I could with the WASD keys. (Note, bashing mouse into desk to knock out batteries may reduce the lifespan of said mouse considerably.) Once it’s plugged in the thing lights up and whoa, the pointer flies over the screen. Ahh I had the windows mouse sensitivity settings up at full. Turning those right down we now get some more realistic movement. Ahhh, and hitting the DPI button changes the movement rate and the colour. Cool. I sense that may be getting some customising so the colour I like has the movement speed I like.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">In The Hand: Having been using the thing for a few weeks now, I’ve really gotten used to it. While I may like it more if it was a bit bigger but the curve fits my hand nicely. The front and back buttons are perfectly placed for my thumb and mostly my mouse use is as it should be. I do it without thinking. Now I’m not super wild about the location of the DPI button because a few times I’ve pressed it by accident. Not that it happened often or was a big issue but it happened. Also something of note is that in the morning first thing, ooooh that metal bit is cold in your hand. It warms quickly but oooh it’s nippy on a winter’s morn. The wheel I rather liked, with its ribbed for err, your pleasure, surface. It seems I have greasy fingers, it always had nice grip and traction, with its indented rotation. I’m fussy about mice shapes and it was nice. Not perfect, a bit bigger and a bit sloped for right handed use would have been nicer but I was never unhappy using it.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Control: The DPI settings and the windows mouse sensitivity controls should be used in unison to customise what is best for you. For me I played until the blue light option was as sensitive as I liked. So sue me, my most pressing concern was picking the most pretty colour option :-) actually I quite liked them all. Anyway, yes the controls, movement was always precise and accurate. Clicks were easily noticeable. Not to firm, not too soft with a nice tactile click. The wheel had a tactile scroll too. Really everything was what it ought to be. No issues.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Software: So yeah, the mouse comes with not just a driver but its own little control software. While it is in no way required for the mouse to work, if you want to fine tune things you do. For example you can remap all the buttons if you want. Change all the DPI settings, change the light settings. Change it from breathing to constant, whatever works for you best. You can set up your own macros too if you want and even change the report data rate, god know why you’d want to but you can. So yeah, mostly I wanted the option to play around with the lighting controls. I may not exactly be the world’s most hard-core gamer. Hey, my nephew though the lighting up was super cool. The only issue I have is this, why can’t I set the colour to random or colour cycling? I’m very much hoping aLLreLi make an update that’ll do that for you but given its tied to the DPI settings I doubt it’ll happen. However the software controls are all easy, obvious and work nicely. Can’t fault anything.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Aesthetics: So the mouse looks nice. I like the lighting effects, so much so I feel like I need a matching keyboard now. The mouse with its all matte black plastic leeks great. Though it does mean the points where my greasy fingers sit on the mouse buttons stand out. I cleaned a few times then realised it was a losing battle. Now the only thing that visually I don’t get is the cable. The black and red. To me that meant I feel like I should have the mouse light up red but I like blue better. Thus I feel like the cable should have been just all black. It’s the same with the box and the control software, it’s all red highlighted. Also what’s odd is the box says it has 4 selectable colours but its 6. Though I guess the blue and the turquoise are pretty similar and the red and purple are a bit too.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Performance: So I know gamers are supper fussy about mice, Halo players need those headshots, I get that. Okay so yeh, the mouse performed very well. I don’t think it made me a better gamer, or by which I mean a less bad gamer, it all worked. Certainly over my wireless mouse there was never any of those little lags and jumps when the thing has gone to sleep or when the phone near it hammering the Wi-Fi and cause the mouse the stutter. So yes it was better, wired always does work better. While I can’t say that this mouse is going to turn you into a gaming superstar, I’m pretty sure if you aren’t and you have this mouse, you can’t really blame the mouse.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Value: Looking on Amazon I see it has £24 marked down from £80. Yeah I don’t think this was ever sold at £80 but for £24 it seems a pretty solid buy. You get a mouse that fits my hand nicely, buttons all click nicely, I like the wheel scrolling and you get the controls offered by the DPI playing with and the colour options that come with it. £24 seems like a pretty good bargain to me.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Conclusion: A mouse is a mouse, so while this is a “gaming” mouse, to me that mostly means it looks aggressive and has fancy lights. Sure you can do all the DPI and change the report rates, which can go as a high as a thousand times a second. Yeah my hand doesn’t quite move fast enough to be requiring polling its position a thousand times a second but hey. If you are some hard core gamer type who wants that level of controls then the X100 gives it to you. Me, I mostly like the pretty lights.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">So would I / should you buys one. Hmm I’m not sure, I still love wireless but I can’t deny there are benefits to wired and I do like the lights. I also really like the controls for them, I ended up setting the DPI I liked and making all the colours set to that DPI. So the DPI button just became a light control. Yey for pretty lights!!! I suspect my former mouse may be due for retirement. You? Well you can get cheaper mice, you can get mice without all the DPI settings and stuff, for your office computer, this may be overkill. The lights especially but…… for its gaming talents and customisability it’s very cheap. Compared to more mainstream brands that let you contral the data polling rate the X100 seems a bit of a steal to me. A good solid, mouse with great software control options for all your gaming and lighting needs.</span></div>
9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-81427002952412517112016-12-06T17:19:00.001+00:002016-12-06T17:19:20.547+00:00Accutone Taurus Earphone Review by mark2410<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f5f5ff; color: black; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
Accutone Taurus Earphone Review by mark2410</div>
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Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.audio.accutone.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Accutone</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the sample.</div>
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TLDR? Try here <a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/828106/accutone-taurus-earphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13066001" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/828106/accutone-taurus-earphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13066001</a></div>
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First Impressions: Hmm they have an interesting visual look. The box is the same as was on the Pisces, and I don’t like tearing things to get them open, oh and when you lift the lid off the innards lift off with it. Hmm what silly silly issues, did no one test these and make the foam bit a sliver smaller than the insides? Anyway not that these are important but it’s just silly. The buds all look kinda nice, though I do note that there is no manual. Normally I’d not have noticed but I wanted to look to see how the bass tuning bits should be set. Yeah their website which the world’s best example of style over substance, tells you nothing. Sigh. I’m coming at these after the Pisces, I wasn’t loving them and these seem to a rash of silly. Desperately silly mistakes. Seriously Accutone, if you give me 20 grand I’ll come in for a month and tell you how to fix all these idiotic little things. I’m in a bad mood.</div>
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In the ears and hmm yeah that bass needs dialled down. At least they do say they are by default set to be really bassy. Oh, err so how the hell does the tuning work. The port just turns round forever. Sigh. Ah okay, so I think if you have them vertical its bassy and horizontal, its least bassy. Ahh okay that’s much much better. Oh actually these are not so bad. I’m still in a bad mood but you know what, these don’t suck they don’t suck at all. Not convinced they are perfect by any means but I’m actually being brought out of my grumpy mood. They are actually kinda nice. Still a bit bassy but not bad. I’m actually knida liking these.</div>
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Source: FiiO E7/E9 combo, Hisoundaudio Studio V 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anv., HiFiMAN HM-650, 1G Ipod Shuffle, Nexus 5, Lumia 735 and Graham Slee Solo Ultra Linear.</div>
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Lows: Well let’s just get this out there, if you want heaps of bass these can do it. It’s not the world’s best bass but there is an abundance of it. I suggest you stick them to the lowest amount. There is still quite a lot but it’s much more sensible and its quality is improved. The still a bit humpy and its depth is moderate but it’s nice. Nice to the point I began to rather like it, it’s a little slow but its tuneful and pleasing. A little rotund for sure but being a bit on the heavy side when it comes to bass is rarely a show stoper for most listeners. Additionally when the bass is dialled down it stops flabing all over the place and stops trying to take over the mids too. There is a more gracious open backed quality to them, there is a fullness to it yet it’s not closed and crushing. It’s so improved in tone and temperament by opening up the little buggers, I find I am, actually liking it and dancing about in my chair. Ever a sign that something is working for me. Good lard I’m actually likening them sufficiently that I’m listen to tracks I like rather then things I should be to test their acoustic behaviours. I didn’t see that coming at the start.</div>
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Quantity wise so long as you keep things at the low bass setting they are still rather bassy but not crazy, if you dial it up then its quality suffers rapidly. At max it’s rather like the Pisces I reviewed the other day and while there may be some that like that sort of bass, I am not one of them.</div>
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Mids: Nice: They aren’t perfect, they are a bit recessed but their given space to breath when the bass is low and they have a decent breadth to them. A degree of airy spaciousness with their not entirely sealed enclosures. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty enjoyable. It’s a little bit on the heavy tonality wise but the slightly airy presentation makes it feel a little bit lighter than it really is. It’s nice. They aren’t super detailed but they are pleasing. Sitting listening to “Two Beds and a Coffee Machine” it’s not exactly a vocal masterpiece but I I’m very much liking it. Pop type vocals are really good on them and then when the bass slips into the picture its absolute depth may not be great but when dialled down it pulls away from the mid/bass cusp. Therefore you get the bass rolling in nicely separated and gives quite the complimentary accompaniment.</div>
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Quantity wise it’s a bit recessed but with the bass an minimum it’s not all that far behind the bass. It’s a little slew and heavy so lightly airy, breathy vocals aren’t all that but most pop music vocals are nicely rendered.</div>
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Highs: Alright. They are greatly aided by the airy spacious presentation. It gives an initial illusion of there being more air and delicacy up top than there really is. They are tuned very well for being aimed at mainstream pop. There is a credible amount of detail but it’s not hard, edgy in your face at all. It’s actually rather reserved and forgiving. It’s just what you really want for most pop music which is rarely well mastered. One slight issue is that I noticed on a couple of tracks there was a slight inclination towards a little sibilant spike. Not outright stabby but there was a sharp little peak.</div>
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In fast and vigorous treble, such as in “Cave In” there are a bit slow and a bit heavy to really go with their light and airy flow. Even with the uDAC and Solo Ultra there wasn’t that open airy dazzle there ought to be. Like someone had put a little bit of a dampener on things.</div>
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Soundstage: There is a slightly open style to them but their heavy tone somewhat counterbalances that. So there is a moderate size going on, not much in the way of distance but reasonably all round, side to side and forwards and back sound field.</div>
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Fit: Great. The bud I could wear up or down and with the cables being able to swivel round they worked super nicely. In the ears and boom, done.</div>
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Comfort: Excellent. A little shallow ish fitting but I was happy to wear them for hours comfortably.</div>
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Microphonics: Actually there was a bit, even wearing them up the cable seems to transmit any knocks from my colours upward quite efficiently. Foot falls were mostly fine with them being not super sealed but wearing down, I missed there being no chin slider.</div>
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Aesthetics: Erm yeah they are not bad. The photos look super glossy and while they are by no means ugly, I wasn’t really feeling it. They are visually fine but they just aren’t all that, and when you compare to them their Gemini siblings these have taken a whack from the ugly stick. Not that looks should really matter but visually these can’t compete with some of their siblings.</div>
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Cable: A nice round little cable. It’s a bit thin but its terminated with MMCX connectors so if you don’t like the cable, or you kill it, then just change it. Yey for removable cables!!!</div>
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Isolation: They are a bit so so. They are pushing at the limits of what I’d be happy using on a bus or for out in traffic. Of course with music playing then it’s really easy that you may not hear the means or your death hurtling towards you if you don’t remember you need to keep your eyes peeled.</div>
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Accessories: You get a good tip selection with a memory foam things and a pair of Comply’s. Now the case, that is pretty but the buds don’t really fit in it. They will go in if you shove them pushing out the case but honestly, you need to buy a case yourself.</div>
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Phone Use: As with their siblings, the play/pause button worked fine, the volume didn’t on the Nexus 5. In calls the mic though was good, I was told I was clear and that was wearing them up so the mic was up nearer my ear than my mouth. So a good showing there.</div>
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Amped/Unamped: Like with the Pisces there didn’t seem to really benefit all that much from being amped well. There were some moderate improvements but nothing spectacular. The treble did improve a bit and the bass firmed up a touch but honestly, there really wasn’t that big of a difference so you shouldn’t feel any great need to amp them.</div>
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Value: Well this I a bit odd. You see their official price is US$89 and that’s basically what I’ve gone by and I’ve not exactly been bowled over by them. Yet when I look for them on amazon UK they aren’t there, but they are on Amazon US. Where they come in at US$23. So that’s pretty different from nearly 90 to just over 20 and at 23 bucks their value rockets upward. For such a price, variable bass, MMCX connected and their audio quality they start to look fantastically good value. However I don’t know if that price will hold for long, so at $23 they are super-duper good value, at $90 not so much.</div>
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Conclusion: Well we have had a mixed bag so far. They are acoustically not bad when the bass is minimized and if you go by their present Amazon US price then, whoa they blow your socks off but their RRP of 90 is well, it’s not all that great. Their audio is fair but nothing to scream about and then that stupid case. There just aren’t really cutting it for 90 in today’s market. They aren’t terrible but when there are so many fantastic offerings out there for that price these just are not passing muster.</div>
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Still it’s not all bad, the variable bass it’s nice for users uncertain of how much they want and as their tastes mature they can dial it down. They are also potentially a cheap way to get something with removable cables and their mic seems very good. If you make lots of calls then Accutone’s headset background may be just what you need and for $23 you get an absolutely solid, excellent buy.</div>
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So would I / should you buy one? Me, at $23 yeah they are pretty good. Not totally to my tastes but really great for that price. At 90, no. You? Well if you want that tons of bass and like the idea of being able to lower it as time goes by, of you need something with a good mic or with removable cables then sure, they are well worth snapping up at US$23 you get a steal of a bargain. At $90 well they may not be my first recommendation. Not that they are terrible but competition is fierce at $90 and these have too many little issues for me. Rather than being all about the bass, it’s all about the price tag you can get them at.</div>
9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-32803931944080229732016-12-06T17:18:00.001+00:002016-12-06T17:18:51.076+00:00Accutone Taurus Earphone Quick Review by mark2410<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f5f5ff; color: black; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: normal;">Accutone Taurus Earphone Quick Review by mark2410</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Thanks to</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.audio.accutone.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: normal;">Accutone</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="line-height: normal;">for the sample.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Brief: Pricing discrepancy extraordinaire.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Price: PPR is US$90, Amazon US says US$23</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Specifications: Erm 9mm driver. I’m not copying the manual from the Pisces out by hand.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Accessories: You get a nice tip selection and the cable is removable which is nice. The case though, well it doesn’t really fit so, yeah maybe go buy one that does.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Isolation: Not big isolators, probably okay for on a bus or out and about near traffic. You’ll still have to remember keep an eye out for traffic with music playing though, so please, do remember to keep your eyes open.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Comfort/Fit: Great for both. Their shape and the removable swirling cables meant I could wear them up or down and they were perfectly comfortable. Then it was just a shove in and done. Simples.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1481044386147_1434" style="line-height: normal;">Sound: Yeah they may say there are by default set to make the bass and they are very heavy. You can however turn it down and when you do the get much less bad. The bass behaves a bit more and stops flabbing up all over the place. With it at min they are not too bed. They aren’t exactly great though but enough that in can say they have been pretty enjoyable to play with. They are bassy, reasonable in the mids and forgiving and mild in the treble. So for my treble sensitive ears they were pretty easy going. Still, if I said I loved these I’d be lying. Looking at their RRP of $90 I’m sorry but no. Then they appear on Amazon US at $23 which is vast difference. At that then they rocket up the value charts and their audio, their removable cable, their everything takes on a completely different tone. At that price they are cracking little things that I could absolutely give a huge thumbs up to, hand on heart at $23 they are super-duper nice. At $90 I cannot say the same.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Value: Yeah at US$23 awesome. At US$90 not so much.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Pro’s: Variable bass output. Removable cables. Good mic.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Cons: Mediocre sound quality.</span></div>
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Accutone Pisces Earphone Review by mark2410</div>
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Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.audio.accutone.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Accutone</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the sample.</div>
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TLDR? Try here <a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/828002/accutone-pisces-earphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13063244" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/828002/accutone-pisces-earphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13063244</a></div>
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First Impressions: Hmm a nice box, I like that matte black plastic but I don’t love the paper band sealing it all closed. I get why it’s so but I don’t packaging I literally must rip to get into. I like to keep things all pristine, oh well. With the things opened on the insides, they errr well the foamy bit came away with the lid so it’s a bit of a mess. Still I can push it back to how it should be for a photo, I mean it’s not like it matters. Then under the earphones were got the bits, a rather nice looking case, a cable wrap and a baggy of tips. Hmm including a “memory foam” pair yet they come with Comply’s on them. A little odd but more tips is never a bad thing. While I’m rather liking the look of the buds I’m not loving that they have flat cables. I mean flat cables may kinda look cool but I’ve never met one I’ve loved. Still there are clearly something that is aimed at crowd that looks do matter. Nothing wrong in being pretty after all is there. These are well, funky and interesting that’s for sure yet I find myself thinking ooooh interesting rather than ooooh pretty.</div>
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In the ears with the handily already applied Complies and bass. Did I not literally just read on their site something about wanting more than just bass. Or was that about the Pisces HD, err or the Pisces BA, whoa the BA one is waaaaaaaay more expensive. So what’s with them all having the same name almost? Sigh I’m calling it right now, that is going to get confusing. Oh good lord and there are two Pisces headphones, on ear things. So they have 5 completely different products all called Pisces. </div>
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Source: FiiO E7/E9 combo, Hisoundaudio Studio V 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anv., HiFiMAN HM-650, 1G Ipod Shuffle, Nexus 5, Lumia 735 and Graham Slee Solo Ultra Linear.</div>
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Lows: I have read the descriptions on their website and hmm, I don’t think Accutone is some brand new upstart Chinese company is it? The linguistics used however would indicate otherwise. Specifically looking at the descriptor on the Pisces about their clarity and how they aren’t tuned just for heavy bass well, yeah my ears tell me differently. I get the feeling someone has let the marketing exchange student go crazy. The lows here are huge, fat and heavy. Thick and weighty to a degree that its obfucative of details, the description is the opposite of what my ears tell me. These are very bass heavy and clarity is sacrificed completely to make it happen. If you want a pair of bass cannons then cracking, great for you but why the completely wrong description. I keep checking I wasn’t reading the wrong one for one of the other things named Pisces. I mean the bass isn’t terrible or anything and for the price, with their looks I’d wager they may do really well if stocked in an Apple store. </div>
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Mids: Meh. These are muffled, thick, weighty sounding earphones and the mids are pushed well back from the bass. The clarity is so so. Seriously if someone had handed me these and told me they were the new Beats something’s I’d have completely believed them. The description talks about the “something as minute as the sound of the performer's breath.” I keep feeling I’m reading the description for a different product. I don’t know if it’s something I’m doing, I really don’t know what is going on but this in not matching up with my ears are telling me. </div>
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The vocals are fine, ish, I’m sure mainstream Beats fans will be absolutely happy with the performance I’m finding here.</div>
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Highs: Well it’s the same story. Thick, weighty heavy, muffled. So if your hyper treble sensitive then great. Erm yeah I can’t say I’m being wowed nor is it very prominent. Never at any point was the treble harsh or fatiguing. So that’s good right, there in nothing worse than harsh abrasive ear ravaging treble.</div>
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Soundstage: It’s not so vast in distance or scale but the power, the sheer force these can deliver to your ears is huge. Massive amounts of power and force, driving these bass notes home with the power of a runaway freight train.</div>
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Fit: Pretty good. Despite their flat cable I could wear them up okay, so up or dawn they were good. They may have angular edges but I never had any fit issues.</div>
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Comfort: Same as with the fit. In the wont with the Comply’s on and I was done. No comfort issues worn up or down.</div>
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Microphonics: Very little even worn down. A chin slider might have been nice but then that would hardly fit is with its uber fashionable vibe.</div>
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Aesthetics: I can’t make up my mind. Visually they are very striking, that bold black set against the burnished chrome is very visually dramatic. Then with its eye-catching angular shape they make a very notable visual statement. Super-duper uber fashionable.</div>
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Build Quality: They would appear to be very good, visually they have had lots of attention paid to them. They feel nice and look impeccable.</div>
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Cable: Well it’s a flat cable. The cable has been chosen to look great but I’m never a fan of flat cables. Its quality all seems fine but round would have been preferable.</div>
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Isolation: Erm well not so much. Even with Comply’s on these just weren’t cutting it. Using on a bus and even just walking out and about near traffic I found them insufficient. With music playing though you may very well not hear traffic so do remember that you need to use your eyes to stay safe.</div>
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Accessories: Well the cable winder doesn’t seem designed t work with flat cables and the case, well it sucks. It’s nice enough to look at but the things don’t fit in it. Seriously how did this get authorised to go into production? They just don’t fit in it, did no one at Accutone ever bother to test the case in use?</div>
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Phone use: Ah one point where I was told they were great. Not just fine but the person specifically said these were the best sounding headset I’ve tested, I sounded just like I was sing the phone normally. That was with wearing them up too so the mic pulled up towards my ears. So it seems their headset background has given a first class mic pick up. Now the volume buttons, well they didn’t work on my Nexus 5, oh well.</div>
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Amped Unamped: Well they as good as made no difference. So no amp needed they work just the same out of anything.</div>
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Value: Well at US$80 they are not the best audio you can get but if you want a bassy bass dominant super uber fashionable hipster earphone then these would fulfil that role perfectly for you.</div>
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Conclusion: So, yeah have I loved these, nope. I don’t know what the issue is, their descriptor describes a different product. These are very bassy and heavy, which is fine if that’s what you want but the description on their web site goes on about clarity and super tiny details. Unless someone posted a different products details up I have no idea. Then that case, seriously Accutone did no one at all in the company test it?</div>
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<a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.head-fi.org/content/type/61/id/1768126/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="1768126" data-type="61" src="http://www.head-fi.org/content/type/61/id/1768126/width/500/height/1000/flags/LL" style="border: 1px solid rgb(208, 208, 208); height: 375px; margin: 0px 1px 1px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 1px; width: 500px;" /></a></div>
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Things aren’t all bad thought. Bass heavy isn’t exactly a hated sound signature in the mainstream world and they do look so visually impressive. If you want something that people will notice as you go by these really do it and they look just impossibly fashionable.</div>
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<a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.head-fi.org/content/type/61/id/1768127/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="1768127" data-type="61" src="http://www.head-fi.org/content/type/61/id/1768127/width/500/height/1000/flags/LL" style="border: 1px solid rgb(208, 208, 208); height: 375px; margin: 0px 1px 1px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 1px; width: 500px;" /></a></div>
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So would I / should you buy one? Me, no. You well, if fashion is your top priority and you want a pounding bass line then boom, these would be perfect for you. Big barrel loads of weighty powerful bass in a hyper stylish package.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480958452481_1396" style="line-height: normal;">Accutone Pisces Earphone Quick Review by mark2410</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.audio.accutone.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Accutone</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the sample.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Brief: Hipster cool.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Price US$80</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Specifications: See the manual. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Accessories: I think 5 pairs of tips, including some foam ones and a pair of Comply’s, a cable tie thing and a case. They don’t fit in the case.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Isolation: So so at best. They didn’t isolate enough for me to even use walking about near traffic. However when you have music playing it would be very easy to not notice traffic so do remember you must use your eyes if you want to stay safe.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Comfort/Fit: Great for both, they have an unusual shape but I could wear them up or down with no issues at all.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Sound: Their website goes on about their clarity and their micro detail retrieval which I don’t understand why. They are not, they are bassy, big bass heavy, weighty, potent thumbing beasts. Which is great if you want some big bass monsters and want it in a hipster fashionable look. They look super visually eye-catching. Plus bass heavy is popular mainstream appealing sound so why so the opposite on the website description of them? It’s confusing, what’s also confusing is the number of products they all call Pisces. I think someone put the wrong description on them. These things were made to go on a shelf in an Apple store and I think they both visually and acoustic are the perfect match for each other.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Value: Stunning looks and massive bass, great if those are what you want.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Pro’s: Visually attention grabbing. Huge bass.</span></div>
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Mark2410’s Top 5 (ish) Christmas Picks 2016</div>
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Okay so if you hadn’t noticed its December and that means Christmas is impending. So here are 5 of this year’s recommended Audio bits and erm, one or several honourable mentions. Okay so mostly it’s that I can’t really narrow things down to 5 or even to 10 so I’m just saying, there is a good chance somethings get in or not off the back of a coin toss. Frankly there has been just so many things that have been great I feel like I just must include them but unless the list is to be 30 plus things, that can’t happen. So onward we go and I’ll start in reverse order.</div>
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Let’s start off with a little one, and a maybe unexpected one. Yep it’s a case but it’s awesome, it’s the mast mad case I’ve used, the thing feels indestructible, thick and what feels like anodised aluminium. I so want someone to put one in a hydraulic press to see what it can take. The things is the ultimate in earphone protection and it’s a fun little stocking stuffer. It pleases me.</div>
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<a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/825963/xduoo-x-can-earphone-case-review-by-mark2410" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/825963/xduoo-x-can-earphone-case-review-by-mark2410</a></div>
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This is going to be a joint one. The brand new iterations from Etymotic than have only taken the a million or so years to come out with. Ety are the great granddaddies of IEM’s and have been making the ER4 since the time of the dinosaurs. This is their first really major alteration. Both are superb sounding, isolate like nothing else on earth and will likely outlive you with their build. The down side is some major wallet ouch. Cash per year of life might be good but cheap they are not.</div>
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<a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/825419/etymotic-er-4xr-extended-response-earphone-review-by-mark2410" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/825419/etymotic-er-4xr-extended-response-earphone-review-by-mark2410</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/825426/etymotic-er-4sr-studio-reference-earphone-review-by-mark2410" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/825426/etymotic-er-4sr-studio-reference-earphone-review-by-mark2410</a></div>
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Yeah this may seem a bit unexpected. It’s not a big high end fancy audio product but with its Bluetooth abilities then that it can double as a WiFi extender and supports airplay, yet its only fifty quid. It’s a versatile little thing that is such a bargain. I mean where else can you get a WiFi enabled speaker, Airplay capable and WiFi repeater for this money? Oh and its audio isn’t bad either for a portable Bluetooth speaker. It’s just such an all-round bargain.</div>
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<a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/818977/bluedio-as-bluetooth-wi-fi-speaker-review-by-mark2410" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/818977/bluedio-as-bluetooth-wi-fi-speaker-review-by-mark2410</a></div>
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Yeah this one is a great sounding product with so many bits and bobs and 400 million filter combinations. I love their dark yet cold sound and while for me as a reviewer filters are such a pain as they make so much more work it enables a range of acoustic flavours for the end user. So if you aren’t sure exactly what sound sig you want for yourself, or if it’s for a Christmas time gift then you can practically guarantee with the options they have to mould the sound balance on the Phantom Sarbre’s to find one of three that they just love. A dead set sure-fire gift winner.</div>
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<a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/823334/trinity-audio-phantom-sabre-earphone-review-by-mark2410" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/823334/trinity-audio-phantom-sabre-earphone-review-by-mark2410</a></div>
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1 1MORE Triple-Driver In-Ear Headphone Earphone. </div>
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Yeah so it may not have the best name I’ve ever seen its one to keep an eye out for. At Canjam London this may have been the star of the show. Not because it’s the worlds “best” IEM but because of its price. The thing comes in at £100 and whoa baby!!! The packaging on the thing is crazy, seriously masterful presentation that even Shure and Etymotic can’t match. If you want a prezzie to make an impression this is the packaging that’ll do it. Then the sound, well it’s pretty bloody good. First class excellent audio that almost crushes all before it in audio / price ratio’s. This screams the perfect Christmas morning present.</div>
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<a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/821876/1more-triple-driver-in-ear-headphones-e1001-review-by-mark2410" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/821876/1more-triple-driver-in-ear-headphones-e1001-review-by-mark2410</a></div>
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What you might me thinking, 00 but those in the know might know exactly what I mean. The absolute top spot must go to the Massdrop / HiFiMAN collaboration that is the RE-00. If you don’t know, it’s basically a halfway step between the old RE-0 and the RE-ZERO and while they were both stunning little beasts in their own right the 00 has come along and swept all before them. You see not only are they more or less acoustic perfection the have come back from the dead, risen like Lazarus yet this time with a price tag of US$35. While I know this isn’t a product for all listeners as its bass response is textbook in quality and quantity so it will be far too light for some. There is also the issue that you can’t just buy one and have it show up in a day or so. You have to wait for the drop to take place. So it’s not perfect for Christmas but…… if you want something for the budding audiophile in your life then these are what to get. They are acoustically outstanding in a way that you assume the price must be a mistake, it must be a scam of some sort because there couldn’t possibly be any way something that can sound this good at this price, it can’t. I know I was sceptical too, I thought it must be just playing on the name but it’s not. These ladies and gentleman is the real deal, acoustic perfection at stocking stuffer prices. Buy one, hell buy 5 or 6. Keep a backup or two for yourself and get a few for friends. This has been no question the star product of the year, easily.</div>
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<a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/823483/hifiman-re-00-earphone-review-by-mark2410" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/823483/hifiman-re-00-earphone-review-by-mark2410</a></div>
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Yeah so I suck at just picking those and leaving it there. There have been plenty of great new things this year and not to mention things from years past that are still great.</div>
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Another Massdrop / HiFiMAN collaboration and just like the 00 it’s the price to audio ratio that blows the scale away. They sound stunningly good for the price, they are a touch bright for me personally but you just can’t find this kind of audio quality elsewhere in a headphone at this price.</div>
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MEE audio Pinnacle P1</div>
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This is the first time MEE have stepped up to play with the big boys and they have shown they can go toe to toe with the best. Great looking product and its sounds fantastic too.</div>
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PMV A-01 MKII Earphone</div>
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Another triple drivered wonder. It may have been over shadowed by the 1MORE but it’s still fantastic sounding and fantastic value for money.</div>
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AAW Q In-Canal Monitor Earphone</div>
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Okay so my review of it’s not up yet, sue me. Yet these are fabulous little gems. Insanely tiny, too tiny actually but they sound near miraculous.</div>
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Okay that’s it, I have to stop or else this is just going to get silly. Frankly there are so many things that were great this year and are so many from years past too that where to draw the line is so hard. If you ask why didn’t X product make it in, the answer may well be err because, reasons. Seriously I have no good reason why the q-JAYS, RE-400, X1, Curve 2.0, MA-750, Delta, S500 etc etc etc didn’t make it beyond I didn’t review them in 2016. There are so many great options out there and I hope this maybe have helped one or two of you grab something special this Christmas.</div>
9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-47585768196305310822016-12-03T18:10:00.004+00:002016-12-03T18:10:48.692+00:001MORE Capsual Dual-Driver In-Ear Headphones Review by mark2410<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f5f5ff; color: black; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
1MORE Capsual Dual-Driver In-Ear Headphones Review by mark2410</div>
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Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://usa.1more.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1MORE</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the review sample.</div>
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TLDR? Try here <a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/827769/1more-capsual-dual-driver-in-ear-headphones-review-by-mark2410#post_13058464" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/827769/1more-capsual-dual-driver-in-ear-headphones-review-by-mark2410#post_13058464</a></div>
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First Impressions: Yeah yeah, don’t ask why they call them in ear headphones, they just do. The box, well, 1More have put some serious effort into making same fancy ass boxes. I know intellectually that box shouldn’t matter, it is not important but they do go somewhat to creating peoples first impressions of a product and the impression it gives is superb. Such a fancy box. Go have a look on YouTube and I’m sure there will be someone “reviewing” them which really just consists of them opening the box and saying yeah they sound great. Still the box opening is impressive. Now having had the Triple-Driver before it was crazy good and so I have high hopes for these. The only thing I note is these are priced so closely to the Triple’s these will need to really do something special to get a recommendation over their siblings.</div>
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In the ears and, well no surprises that they are great. The bass is a little more BA like than dynamic, it must be a smaller driver, nicely articulate but not so eager to get explosive. The treble though I can hear it beginning to break up at the top. Hmmm I’ll need to whip out the Triples to check but for the 10 quid difference in these and the Triples these are not coming off that well. Not bad or anything but I’m not seeing quite why I’d suggest these over their siblings for the sake of a tenner?</div>
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Source: FiiO E7/E9 combo, Hisoundaudio Studio V 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anv., HiFiMAN HM-650, 1G Ipod Shuffle, Nexus 5, Lumia 735 and Graham Slee Solo Ultra Linear.</div>
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Lows: Unusually presented. They are a dynamic, they are but they are much more BA like in their presentation. It’s not a huge dynamic driver so it’s not a big air mover and thus you get a rather more BA like even descent. It’s quickly paced, its nimble and nicely articulated but…. well while it’s really good for a dynamic I’d be tempted to have used a BA instead inside them. If you’re not going to let a big dynamic do what big dynamics doo well, why use a dynamic? You know it’s actually a little funny. If these had come out a couple years ago at this price I’d be going nuts how great it is but I just can’t quite get the Triple out of my head. Ahh the capsule puts is such a good performance but the Triple best it and what’s worse, the Dual bests it (Dual review coming shortly.) The capsule in raw audio terms while excellent on its own has made some compromises. Apparently the capsule has been made with people in mind that need little things, little tiny earphones that can melt away under a helmet perhaps. Now while they do that well, ditto for sleeping the fact is there has been an acoustic compromise. It just hasn’t quite the skill of a good BA low driver and it hasn’t the presence of a good and good sized dynamic so its depth peters out a little early. Not that it’s bad or anything but its siblings are so stunningly good the little capsule comes up a little short beside them.</div>
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Its overall quantity level is a tiny bit elevated but otherwise it’s a fairly natural level. Nothing over boosted nor particularly attention stealing.</div>
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Mids: Very good, I can’t quite tell which of the two drivers it is but I believe it’s the BA. The vocals are a touch thin and focused. They are also slightly slanted towards girly vocals than they are male. There is a certain fullness and body they just don’t really have in the lower vocal depths. It’s all so clean and nicely articulated. I can’t help but feel bad for them, they are really very nice but with its siblings beside it it’s just not quite as wonderful as they are. They both haunt had to make compromises to get into that teeny tiny body they have. Yet I don’t even want to say if you ride a motorbike then great for you as I don’t think you should be using earphone and on the roads other than walking. You won’t hear traffic and while I don’t care if you get yourself killed so much it’s those you’ll take with you. Everything I play on here sounds great it is, no really it’s all great. Really great sounding. And then I pick up the Triple and the Capsule just falls that little bitty short. I know I’m not being fair to it, I should be treating it on its own merits, I know that yet I can’t stop myself. Yes if you must have something tiny and your budget can’t cope with a q-JAYS or an AAW Q then sure this is super small, and it sounds really good.</div>
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Highs: Well, it’s the same story. Its good, really it is really good…… but its siblings exist. Now this and the Dual seem dangerously close acoustically and while I think the Dual is a little over edgy at times it seems to be the better resolving. There is just something with the Capsule that they can sound broken up at times. I’m not sure if it’s something everyone would notice but with the good amp out and with the lighter DAC in use you can hear its being a little brittle and scratchy up top. For the money its not something I would normally have any issues with, treble is the bit that is really hard to get right and it’s why you get earphones that cost very much more than these. Yet its siblings are soooooo closely priced and because they haven’t gone for a teeny tiny housing they haven’t had to compromise anything. It is always an enjoyable rendition though, don’t mistake my pernickety nit picking as saying they are bad, for they most certainly are not. They just aren’t quite as good as its siblings is all.</div>
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Quantity wise they are rather naturally balanced. The treble isn’t very pronounced and especially in treble relaxed tracks they can be quite subdued. It’s only when you fire up some bright splashy treble that you really notice them come to the fore. So not really one for treble heads, it’s only a light, faint little diminishing of treble.</div>
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Soundstage: These maybe by their shape. The dynamic I thing being a little pushed back that these sound a little bit bigger than you would normally find in a BA only affair. Not that they are vast they do have a good degree of sideways space and I good bit of distance. Not so much the roundly enveloping sound stage as it lacks a bit of depth but its width is great. Nicely open too.</div>
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Fit: Well the fit may be somewhat intended to be worn down but if you flick them round they can be worn up just fine. That’s what I did and they worked great, no issues at all to speak of.</div>
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Comfort: Great. The things are really small and you can completely forget you’re wearing the things after a minute or two. Tiny and weigh hardly anything. So you can wear them all day long without any issues. I’m also told you can wear them under a motor bike helmet perfectly comfortably too. Though I’m going on record as saying I do not advise you to do that. If you’re riding a bike you should not be using any earphones. Now if you want ones for sleeping in, that’s different. These would work great and you can stick them and in put your head down with no problems at all. I slept with them to test them, no issues here.</div>
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Microphonics: If you wear them down you do, you get quite a bit actually too. Plus there is no chin slider either so I’d say wear them up. Wearing up you don’t really get any unless you go out of your way to tap the cable. </div>
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Aesthetics: Well this in one issue that while its siblings may sound better, these look waaaaaaaaay nicer. Now the Triple does come in a silver that looks fab but the black and gold then the white and gold of the Dual, yeah the Capsules are considerably better looking. Yeah visually there isn’t much competition these look rather good don’t they.</div>
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Build Quality: Well they would appear to be first rate. Without ripping them to tiny bit or borrowing a time machine they seem good. They look really very good and put together.</div>
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Cable: It’s nice. I’m not generally wild about weave coated ones but it seems good. Nicely flexible and the jack and Y splitter are metal so there isn’t anything I can fault with it.</div>
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Isolation: They may be hybrid but they almost isolate like an all BA. Not quite BA levels but damn close. So easily fine for on a bus, out and about walking and they might just do you for flights and Tube commutes too. Naturally that means you will not, even with no music going, notice traffic so if you’re going to do that go get a donor card first.</div>
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Accessories: Well. To me it seems like these have been made to be about the looks and such crowd. You see while the Dual and Triple get a nice little hard case these for some reason get a little pleather baggy. I mean it’s a niceish baggy but yeah, can I have the hard case please? Otherwise you get 4 pairs of silicone tips and a little rubber sheath thing for the buds, not sure why you’d use them but they are kinda cool.</div>
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Phone Use: I fired up the phone and gave a call out, I was told I was audible but that I sounded like I was underwater. A little strange but conversing was easy enough so who know what the cause of that was. The control buttons all worked fine too. Yep the play/pause etc etc button and the volume up and down controls worked fine on my Nexus 5 too. Nice.</div>
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Amped/Unamped: Now in terms of needing outright power to be their best, well no they didn’t really need gobs of power. They sounded good out of anything but….. they were not the loudest things ever. I noticed it on the phones that the volume dial was going up a little higher than normal. Not that I couldn’t make them go louder than I’d ever want with even the phones they still wanted a little more juice than most. Yet weirdly like I say they didn’t especially need tons of power to sound good. Of course the better amps sounded better but the gulf wasn’t vast. A little bit strange they behaved this way but whatever.</div>
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Value: On their own merits yes they are really nice value. Really good audio quality for a really competitive price. But….. its siblings. Unless you need something with tiny buds or just can’t abide its sibling’s looks then I cannot see many situations where I’d say save the tenner and take these over the Triples. Yes they are good value and you get your money’s worth but the Triples are better. I do like the Capsules but I just don’t know why you’d pick them unless you need something really tiny that you can sleep with in your ears.</div>
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Conclusion: Ahh. I feel bad for them. Well not really but you know what I mean, they have so much going for them. They honestly have so many great qualities but…. the Triples are only a tiny bit more and beat them in almost every regard. Looks and size aside which for me aren’t the best reasons to pick an earphone I just cannot for the life of me see me ever saying to anyone take these over the Triples. Seriously I’d sooner tell you to skip a meal or two and get the Triples over these. Not that there is anything wrong with them, it’s just the Trebles are that bit better all over the place.</div>
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Now the Capsules on their own merits are a great little IEM. There is nothing it does badly, in any regard it’s a good solid option with some pretty capable acoustic chops. There isn’t anything it screws up. Acoustically it is really nice and really capable. It’s pretty to look at. It’s really super comfy to wear all day long. It is really nothing but positive things I can say about it. It’s a good choice and I’m sure that anyone who buys one or gets one as a Christmas present will be thrilled with them. Honestly I don’t see anyone being unhappy getting the Capsule.</div>
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So would I / should you buy one? Me, no. In a heartbeat I’d take the Triples. No question. You? Well if your reading this your probably a bit of an audio buff so likely for you, you’ll likely go with the Triples too. However if you want a gift for someone, where its looks matter and its tiny proportions matter too, then sure why not. The capsule is a good sounding, quality product and I really cannot envisage any one being presented with a pair and being disappointed by them.</div>
9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-40498021018604307302016-12-03T18:10:00.002+00:002016-12-03T18:10:20.144+00:001MORE Capsual Dual-Driver In-Ear Headphones Quick Review by mark2410<div id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480788296457_1636" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f5f5ff; color: black; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480788296457_1635" style="line-height: normal;">1MORE Capsual Dual-Driver In-Ear Headphones Quick Review by mark2410</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://usa.1more.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1MORE</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the review sample.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Brief: The really pretty sister, of Claudia Schiffer.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Price: £90 or US$90</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Specifications: Type: In-Ear, Color: Black, Nominal Impedance: 16 Ω, Sensitivity: 100±3 dB /1mW, Driver Unit: Balanced Armature Driver+ Dynamic Driver, Weight: 14g, Frequency Range: 20-40,000Hz, Plug: 3.5 mm, Rated Power: 5mW, Length: 1.25m, Wire Material: Enameled Copper Wire.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Accessories: 4 pairs of tips, “silicone extension sleeve for larger ear sizes,” pleather baggy thing.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Build Quality: I can’t fault anything they appear to be great. Cable seems nice.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Isolation: Very good. It may be a hybrid but they isolate almost as well as an all BA design. Easily fine for on a bus or out and about. Tube and flights should be okay too probably. That does mean that you won’t hear traffic even with no music playing so do remember to use your eyes near traffic.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Comfort/Fit: Great on both counts, tiny things and they fit me just great. Happy to wear all day.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Aesthetics: Rather nice. Ignoring my brief these are actually the best looking 1More. So diminutive and they just melt away, like them lots.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480788296457_1656" style="line-height: normal;">Sound: Now this is where the brief comes into play. The capsules are great, really they are really good. Their problem is that while they are great, the only a tiny fraction more expensive Triples are better. Not just a tiny bit better but they are noticeably better. Hands down better. Unless you really care about their looks and the size differences I just can’t see any occasion where I’d tell someone to buy the Capsules over the Triples. Not that I think anyone would be upset to receive a pair on Christmas morning, the Capsules on the own are really good. I myself very much like them and have enjoyed every minute I’ve spent with them. But I enjoyed the Triples more. Flavoured to be a relatively flavour lacking IEM, the bass is almost BA in its attributes and style. Lithe and agile and diminishing in depth. The mids are grand and the treble is good, accurate but can be a tiny bit gritty before going into its decline. All things I’d forgive at its price no problem yet….. Its siblings I just can’t quite keep out of my mind. It’s a nice overall acoustic balance being rather naturalistic and easy going. All in all a very pleasant affair that I’d be fine with using every day.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Value: Very good. However the Triples are better.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Pro’s: Sound great. Great balance. Super small.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Con’s: Its Siblings exist.</span></div>
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Massdrop x Noble X Universal IEM Earphone Review by mark2410</div>
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Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.massdrop.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Massdrop</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the loaner.</div>
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TLDR? Try here <a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/827755/massdrop-x-noble-x-universal-iem-earphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13058148" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/827755/massdrop-x-noble-x-universal-iem-earphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13058148</a></div>
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First Impressions: Now my experience previously with Noble have been a bit limited. I heard some back at Canjam London and I wasn’t exactly blown away with them. In my brief notes I did more than once suggest I may not be getting a great fit. So with these from the peeps at Massdrop, at such a slashed price I’m a little bit anxious. Might they be brilliant for that price or might I find that I wasn’t having fit issues, that Noble’s and I just aren’t meant for each other? Anyway the package eventually arrived after the ever helpful people at Fedex proved that while getting things halfway round the world isn’t an issue but actually showing up rather than just claiming you have, yet mysteriously didn’t leave a card, was. Hmm yeah funny how when a company claims they tried to deliver and you weren’t in, when you were, somehow it’s the one time they don’t leave a card. Funny that isn’t it Fedex? Once I had them in my hand, with their little plastic case. Hmm a pretty looking little case but on opening it up it’s all a little snug in there no? Must grab that crazy xDuoo metal thing I was playing with the other week. The shells that Noble are using are for cost reasons ones they already have developed, so while only 2 drivers in there they are really big IEM’s. Tbh I’m fine with that, I mean there is nothing wrong with the shells so why waste money on something so trivial. Though a bigger case might have been nice, maybe. Ahh well it’s not like you can’t buy ones. Still they are pretty nice looking things. Nothing magical but nice.</div>
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Finding some foamy tips that were on my desk and then in the ears. Hmm. Well these aren’t bass monsters that’s for sure, though I have been using one lately. Nice mid-range, something granular in there, and the extension on both ends seems a little diminutive. Nice, clean vocally something not quite Shure like but yet Shure is flashing up in my brain. Lots of clarity and pith, got a little punchy heart in there somewhere too. Treble is rather polite in the upper ranges but upper mids are nicely pronounced. I can see much Tori Amos and Susan Wong in my near future.</div>
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Source: FiiO E7/E9 combo, Hisoundaudio Studio V 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anv., HiFiMAN HM-650, 1G Ipod Shuffle, Nexus 5 and Graham Slee Solo Ultra Linear. </div>
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Lows: Interesting. They are pretty clean, it’s actually a little bit of fresh air to get some good old fashioned BA bass on the go from all these hybrids these days. BA’s I know don’t please everyone with their lesser amount of air movement but I’ve always been a little bit of a fan. It’s all so clean and unencumbered. It feel like it could move so much faster than a flabby slow dynamic. Of course some dynamics are great but they never quite have the same limitlessly fast agility of a good BA. There is a politeness and accuracy to them I find so pleasing. It may have become a little unfashionable of late with dynamic BA hybrids being all the rage but I like it. No softening no yielding. It is precisely the amount it means to be when it means to be with the pace it means to have. In my favourite sort of vocal fests, such as Des’ree’s “Proud to be a Dread” the bass line is an accompaniment. Her vocals, and her rather fun lyrics are supposed to be the star of the show and the bass produced here ensures that. I know that many will want more, mostly more in quantity but more aggression and more bombast too. These are about being gently and politely accurate for the most part. Now if you do want to push them, throw in some bass heavy stuff it is a little more inclined to punch than it is to sustain a vigorous low. It’ll give a hearty little thump but it’s not where it’s at its best.</div>
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These are about moderate, pleasing and accurate bass that doesn’t ever want to command the centre stage position. It’s much more happy when its low piano notes or a low cello than it is with synthetic overblown lows.</div>
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Mids: This is where they do their best. Rather a moderately mid centric sound too. Not entirely so but with the polite bass and the upper treble tamed the mids really have the most space in which to really explore matters and show off. They can swoop and soar with a grand degree of skill. They are really most excellent. Flicking back and forth with a few things they do come across as having a better breadth to them than other mid focused things like the SE530. Still for all their accomplishments there don’t quite have that gloriously buttery creamy Shure hyper fluidity. These sound the more realistic and I know the Shure’s are over done but damn they are good. These are the on paper, more realistic and thus I feel like I can’t fault them for it. They aren’t just captivating me the way I like best and loosing myself into them. Detail wise they again, I can’t really fault them. They aren’t the most detailed ever, they are a tiny bit glossed over in their presentation but they would be easily capable enough to be used as monitors for vocals. Listening to “Papa Can You Hear Me” several times I’m very happy saying that the mids are of a superb quality. Not the most mesmerising mids, nor the most beautifully fluid but at their US$250 price tag I have no complaints and the de have a better sense of breadth than the likes of the SE530 can muster.</div>
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Quantity wise while the X’s could be called middy they are only a bit so. They are not really all that middy but its more that they don’t do the V shaped boosted bass and treble that is so commonly found. Thus these will be relatively middy to most listeners more typical fare. These are tuned for proper grownups who want a properly balanced product that allows them to hear everything and net just dazzling treble and thumping bass.</div>
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Treble: I’ve really already told you, the treble is not all that pronounced. The detail levels are very good as you would expect from an item at this sort of quality level. The things is it’s done properly and the treble from their BA drivers are sculpted in such a way as they don’t linearly ascend and then do what BA’s do. Get edgy and hard. Here they are in a gently decay before rolling off more quickly. These are proper monitor tuning so that you could listen to them all day long and not suffer from listening fatigue. For me the level is just about perfect and along with its rather good details levels I feel are just about spot on. Now if you are perhaps a little more err, mature, and your hearing range in perhaps no longer quite what it once was then you may find that the subtlety of the treble isn’t what you need. It’s overall soft and easy, much more about delicate refinement than it is about hurling detail at you. These are very gentle, easy going, easy on the ear.</div>
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Quantity wise this presentation is going to mean that if you slap on very treble heavy stuff, things that will normally ravage your ears will be tamed. It will be mollified to more gentle style. Not quite scotch by a roaring fine mellow but they certainly are more at home with more gentle pieces than with dazzelfests.</div>
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Soundstage: For being a BA they are unusually well sized. Maybe it’s that big enclosure they sit in at work? Either way they sound very atypically big for a BA based IEM. They sound big, well distanced, spacious and with a nice amount of air too. It’s a bit uncommon for a BA but whatever they have done to make it happen, it works and give a very pleasing soundscape.</div>
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Fit: Super easy. Now I don’t know why I had issues with the previous Nobles, maybe it was just that I needed foamy tips? When I tried these I went to foamy ones right away and then I had no issues at all. Easy, shove in and done. The only thing of note is that they sit relatively shallow, what with their very large housings so you have to go to big tips and they do sit a little shallow for my tastes. Still with the ear hooks they were plenty stable enough.</div>
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Comfort: Great. Like I say they sat shallow but otherwise perfect. Physically they were great and their acoustic balance meant they went ever aurally fatiguing either. So I could and did wear them for hours and hours with no issues at all.</div>
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Cable: So this cable is some new, fancy something special cable from Noble. Well so I’m told but as I don’t have any Nobles in my stable of IEM’s I don’t have any to compare to. lol, yeah so it’s something special apparently. Now it is a pretty nice cable. The ear guides work fine and they are removable. The cable is a thin braided affair and it’s very flexible in use. I look and it’s reminding me of something but I can’t quite think what. Anyway, cable it’s nice. The Y splitter and jack and fine too, nothing super special but eminently functional.</div>
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Microphonics: In normal usage I didn’t really get any. There is a chin slider there too if you have issues but unless I tapped the cable with my fingers then I never got any in use. Being the shape that they are you really have to wear them up and if you wear things up they are normally pretty good. I think it’s probably helped by the guides being pretty short.</div>
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Isolation: Very good. They aren’t the very best because the do sit a bit shallow but they are BA based and sealed. So while they are a bit so so as Balance Armature IEM’s go they are better than pretty much every dynamic in existence. If iso matters to you this is the sort of thing you want over a hybrid that has to be open for the dynamic. These will do for bus, out and about and while not my ideal choice for Tube or flight’s they would do just fine. That of course means that if you are using, even with no music playing liable to get yourself run over if you’re near traffic and not making use of your eyes. </div>
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Aesthetics: Hmm. Nice. I rather like the blue colour of the outer and the Noble patterned outer is pleasant. Nothing I’d say is super gorgeous or anything but nothing about it is visually offensive either. Nice but nothing special.</div>
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Build Quality: Noble have a rather good reputation when it comes to construction. Nothing really about these has given me cause to question that but neither was I blown away. It’s a quality, expensive product so you expect it to be well made don’t you. It is.</div>
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Amped/Unamped: Well, they want power. No no, they want all of the power. They want all of the power and then even more power. They were easily at their best when running out of the Solo Ultra Linear. Even the FiiO E7/E9 combo wasn’t cutting it with them. I don’t know why as it wasn’t a volume issue as even the phones could drive them plenty loud, yet they couldn’t eek the best audio quality out of them. Colder also helped clean them up, so the Studio worked better than the big HM650 but I was really a little surprised. They really don’t need power to get loud, they actually were really easy to drive loud, very very easy yet they didn’t perform at their best unless hooked up to the big Solo. Not something you see often, I mean the big amp usually does give the best audio quality which is why it’s there after all but even jumping down to the E7/E9 combo and they were noticeably not as great. All the while they were super easy to drive to stupid loud. I don’t know exactly what the root of this was, maybe it’s an impedance thing, the E9 I think has some additional impedance in its output so maybe that was it? I really don’t know. So my suggestion would be do amp them, amp them well and if possible make it a cooler, dryer amp to make the best of them.</div>
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Value: Well once you’re in this level of quality value starts to go a little bit out the window. I mean the audio difference in quality between something at US$250 and US$500 is really rather small. Diminishing returns begins to kick in hard once you get past about £100 so value starts to have less meaning. Now they are listed as having an RRP of US$500 but as I understand these are a special, design made my Noble for Massdrop so I don’t know if they will ever be sold at $500. Now I know also that these have been made with audio quality in mind specifically and to do it cheaply. So things like the housing, fora dual BA, yeah it’s huge. It doesn’t need to be but as Noble pointed out this is a design they have tested and know works so why waste money redesigning a new one when a major concern is cost? You don’t, it’s stupid to waste money on things like that. This is aimed at Headfi peeps, hard core audio fans that care about the audio and the cost, things like looks and housing size just aren’t important. My sort of people. So to my peeps I answer are these good value? Well yes. You’ll get a proper quality product with high levels of detail and an excellent balance. It’s not to say you can’t find things more to your tastes especially if you want something flavoured but there are very evenly handed and with a hair middy presentation with moderate extensions on either end. It’s a highly grown up product at a not quite so grown up price.</div>
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Conclusion: These are good, very good. I like them very much and yet I don’t love them. Having been playing with the SE530 and the SE420 these are more like the 420 in the character. The 530 is a hyper middy, hyper liquidy over done but gorgeous sounding mid-range. These are more like the everything on paper, more realistic 420. These do last better on the bottom end and they have a much more expansive soundstage than the 420 making these the much more enjoyable. There are enjoyable, the 420 is a bland and boring as things get at times. These are more grand more spacious and that bottom does have a little more grunt in it. It’s also quite notable what that bit of space can do too. There is a more live, airy something to everything.</div>
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Down side wise, well the housing rather big sound that could be a problem for some. Its real potential down side is that it’s not exciting. I can see some coming to a product like the X and they see US$20 earphones and think oh, well its RRP is US$500 so it must have all of da everything. It doesn’t. It is not bombastic in the bass, it is not scintillating in the treble. It’s a comfortable, highly capable and mostly evenly balanced product. It hasn’t got bags of drama inside it, it’s going to be too boring for some. It is a grown up, monitor like, easy going detailed and lacking in flavour.</div>
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So would I / should you buy one? Me, yes. This sort of sound signature is very much me. Great mids with neither extreme bass nor extreme treble. It’s so easy and gentle on the ear. Plenty of detail but it hasn’t some overcompensating issue where it feels it must hurl it at your face. I hate that, attention seeking, screaming hyperactive child. I like things more like this. Clean, simple, elegant, confident in its own abilities where you may casually take or leave whatever detail level you wish. Something soothing and easy on the ear. Something where Barbara can belt out songs to her dead father. “Papa Can You Hear Me” is the perfect song for these. Such acoustic simplicity, scale, purity, delicate, gently beautiful. There is a soul, a joy, a sadness, a passion lurking just beneath their mild mannered sensibilities. Something aching yet deep yet somehow light and airy all at once.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480778197405_1637" style="line-height: normal;">Massdrop x Noble X Universal IEM Earphone Quick Review by mark2410</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.massdrop.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Massdrop</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the loaner.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Brief: Massdrop and Noble make a baby.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Price: US$250 or about £197</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Specifications: Faceplates: Anodized aluminum in midnight blue, Drivers: 2 proprietary balanced armature drivers per side, Impedance: 30 ohms, Frequency response: 15 Hz – 20 kHz, Cable: 50 in (127 cm), detachable, with 2-pin configuration, Plug: ⅛ in (3.5 mm), gold-plated, Weight: 0.69 oz (19.5 g)</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Accessories: Detachable cable with 2-pin connector & 3.5mm TRS plug, 2 pairs of single-flange silicone ear tips (M, L), 2 pairs of Noble foam ear tips (M, L), 1 pair of double-flange silicone ear tips (M), Cleaning tool, Carrying case, Noble Audio warranty.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Build Quality: It all seemed decently put together, the bits are of a good quality and the cable and such were all rather nice too.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480778197405_1652" style="line-height: normal;">Isolation: For a BA IEM they are rather shallow sitting and that means that they are relatively not so isolating. However these are still BA and thus they have no dynamic in them like with hybrids which require a vent. These are properly sealed and thus they beat pretty much every dynamic out there for isolation. Not just fine for bus or about and about but fine for flights or the Tube. Naturally that means even with no music playing you’ll need to use your eyes near traffic or get yourself killed.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Comfort/Fit: Aside from being rather shallow sitting with is a little peculiar if you’re used to normal BA things. That was it though, issue wise, a touch shallow but they fit me great and easily. I was also happy wearing them all day long, no comfort issues at all despite them being a little bit big.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Aesthetics: Nice. Tbh I’m not exactly drooling over them but they look nice enough, I like that blue and the Noble design is pleasant. So they look fine, nothing amazing but nice enough.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Sound: Good. They are a touch middy compared with most may be used to, what with their being all BA which seems like it’s been ages singe I’ve seen a multi driver that’s not a hybrid. BA bass is light, accurate, detailed and more inclined to punch than to bloom. Its depth is fine but can’t get all the way down. Same with the treble, it tails off as you go upward. Plenty detail but its subtle in its presentation. The mids though are where they are at their best. The mids are a little plain, not the most flavoured but highly naturalistic and realistic. Effortless and easy going. I kept going back to fantastically simple tracks with stellar vocals. Something so simple, easy and delicate to them if you amp them well. Oh and they do like all the power you can provide, particularly if from a cool amp. Not just benefit from but border line need, yet they were super easy to make loud out of anything. Contradictory a bit but oh well.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Value: Not the cheapest but certainly the cheapest Noble you can get.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Pro’s: Superb mid-range. Highly naturalistic presentation. </span></div>
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Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bluedio.com/en" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bluedio</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the sample.</div>
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TLDR? Try here <a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/827745/bluedio-victory-bluetooth-and-optical-headphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13057993" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/827745/bluedio-victory-bluetooth-and-optical-headphone-review-by-mark2410#post_13057993</a></div>
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First Impressions: Hmmm now I’m looking at the specs of this and crazy just doesn’t even come close. These have all of the things. First of all let’s go with the Bluetooth and Optical descriptor I’ve given them. So they have Bluetooth, nothing super weird about that. They also have a normal wired ability, again nothing weird there. Then it has an optical input, yes an optical input. I have never heard of anything having that before never mind having seen something with it. Oh but the crazy doesn’t stop there, they have, just have a guess how many drivers? Go on guess. You’ll be wrong. These have a total of 12. That isn’t a typo, it has twelve drivers. 6 on each ear. That is insane, just balls to the wall madness. Which I don’t know if I think its insanity is genius or psychotic. I mean 6 drivers in each ear, I, well I can’t find the words, it is just wow, good or bad wow I can’t yet say.</div>
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On the ears and first off these are rather bass centric. Heavy, god it’s got a fair bump deep down low too. Lol these are going to be an extravaganza of crazy town levels of delirium. Lol. Cursum Perficio playing and good lord that’s some thunderous, monstrous low end at work. If you hate mountains of bass then these aren’t for you. The rest of the spectrum, there is a certain slight diffuseness at work. Detail levels are very good but that slightly diffuse character creates a faintly open separation. It’s a strange quality. It’s curious, detail but it’s not direct and tangible, it adds a space and open like character yet having an enclosed sound signature with that bass and the weight of the vocals. Distance and a slightly ethereal trait yet heavy. Very strange. </div>
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Source: Hisoundaudio Studio V 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anv., HiFiMAN HM-650, 1G Ipod Shuffle, Nexus 5 and Graham Slee Solo Ultra Linear. For Bluetooth mostly Nexus 5 and Lumia 735. Additionally they also were their own source from an optical feed and USB feed.</div>
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Lows: Lol, vastness extraordinaire. They are not just bass monsters, not just bass cannons but bass howitzers. They are vast and seriously powerful. They can thump so hard with such a mountain of bass that its oppressive. The scale is just insanity, vast and unending power in such a ridiculous abundance. Lol its mental. If this was my only headphone I’d have real problems with the quantity here, its crazy stuff but there is something so giddy and off the wall it’s hilariously entertaining. It’s just so awe inspiring. What’s more is that if you can try to put aside its vastness its quality is actually pretty good too. I mean it could be harder and it could be more articulate but not at this quantity. What’s more is that if you get a track with not a lot of bass, it goes away too, it’s not some ever present morass of bass there whether it should be or not. These feel I bit like a secret guilty pleasure.</div>
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Now the quantity thing. Yeah they are huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeee. There is no way around that, would either wasn’t all, and I do really mean all of the bass or you don’t. if you don’t, these probably aren’t for you. New if you slap on some Streisand the bass will be relatively diminutive but keep in mind the second you egg on that bass, provoke it into action it will act with astonishing violence.</div>
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Mids: Actually, they are really pretty good. While there is that stupendous bass driver ponding away there is I think, one dedicated mid driver. While if I tuned them I’d bump it up a bit in quantity there is no getting away from the fact the quality is pretty good. I would have liked a little more dryness, exploit that special diffuse quality more. These are direct, a little heavy, buttery, and quite detailed. Honestly its weird, they are so geed but I guess dedicated drivers can do that, it’s not having to worry about the bass production so the mids can be a good as they like without encumberment. Flicking over to the Vinyl’s and the mid-range isn’t on its own too different, yet the bass difference in huge. The bass is so huge, so unbelievably huge that the mids I keep wanting to bump up and forward yet that bass becomes brain liquefying. So I find I’m in a bit of two minds. The mids are capable but they don’t really get the chance to shine. Hmm I do like the mids but they don’t have the energy I want.</div>
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So in quantitative terms they can be reasonably prominent but they are so weighted by all that butter. Pleasing it maybe but there is a real heaviness at work and it therefore cant stretch its wings and rise about that bass. It’s all so weighed down.</div>
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Highs: Curious. You see there must be what, 4 drivers in each ear that does the treble yet the treble quantity is suspiciously diminutive. I mean there are so many drivers that must be doing treble then why is so lacking in quantity? I mean it’s not like I’m some treble head that needs vast amounts of brightness but here it’s so hidden. There should be lots of treble, endlessly shimmering treble with those 4 drivers to work with. There isn’t which I find most curious. Now don’t get me wrong I’d be the first one to complain if there were tons of treble but I just find myself thinking, why 4 drivers? I won’t bash the quality levels that are here, though it is a little but lacking for the price but it seems inappropriate to. These with their insane number of input options seem to counter that and while at the moment I’m optical less (computer died) these are something. Lol that bass for one is crazy and the treble does its best to shimmer along best it can, keeping things on track for the most part.</div>
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Soundstage: Weird. While for the most part it’s a closed experience yet there is a faintly diffuse something going on that means I can’t quite put my finger on where things are coming from. Closed still because that bass could only be from a closed headphone but something, there is a something that I can only assume is the work of all those drivers. Weird, but fun and interesting.</div>
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Comfort: Well they are big weighty beasts and these they do clamp a little snugly to keep them on you. So if you wear for hours at a time your ears, well mine did anyway, get a little squished. Not sore or anything but after a couple hours a break was nice to let the ears have a bit of a breather.</div>
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Fit: No problems. They are a big heavy but on they went fine with no issues to speak of.</div>
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Cable: Well. This may roll on a bit. The normal cable, the 3.5 to 3.5 male to male one with the 6.25 adapter on the end worked just great. It’s partially coiled too so that was nice, a big serious cable it is too. Then we have no cable, Bluetooth, that worked great too, paired easy, no issues and the touch sensitive controls on the side come into play and they worked fine. Though I must confess it was weird at first. Then we have the USB socket, yes not only can you charge the things by it but you can pump audio through it as well!!! Then if that wasn’t enough you have the most bizarre one. Optical. Yes you can connect them optically. These must be the only headphones on earth that can do that right? Basically the Victory’s are their own DAC and amp which if you have a laptop with on board audio then your likely best off using anything other than its own 3.5mm out as most laptop outputs suck horribly. These get completely around that issue in the most convenient and varied ways.</div>
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Battery: The battery quoted times are interesting. Talk time and Bluetooth music playback is rated at 25 hours yet optical playback is 40. That means the Bluetooth circuitry and transmitter eats up a fair chunk of that battery then doesn’t it. Naturally the USB playback has no rated life as USB supplies power! Yey. Now the standby time is a 1000 hours so I’m just going to take their word for it because there is no way I’m checking that.</div>
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Isolation: Rather good. These are big sealed, squishy padded and snugly fitted. These rather seal nicely and thus they isolate well. You know not that I’m sure I’d want to use these beasts out and about but you totally can if you want and not have people wanting to kill you. Flights in a pinch would be okay maybe. Naturally these will easily block out normal traffic so please do look where you’re going if your using them.</div>
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Build Quality: These are expensive and they are built like tanks. They are big and heavy beasts these feel extremely solid. Of course at £300 so they should. Big tough old monsters. Visually and to the touch they feel impeccable too. A little pleathery over kill on the headband maybe but it’s all soft n squishy comfy.</div>
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Aesthetics: Hmm I like them most of the time. They are big chunky things yet the pleather headband on the outside is soft. It’s not quite in keeping with their weighty beastliness so I want that to be hard, but it is lovely and soft to the touch. Hmm they are all fine looking but I dunno, they aren’t quite doing it for me. </div>
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Phone Use: Well I had them running over Bluetooth and a call came in. it all worked as it was supposed to and I could be heard pretty well. A little bit distant as is usual when the mics up by your ear. I of course heard them perfectly.</div>
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Amped/Unamped: Well running off their own steam they worked great, off a beefy amp that bass just got crazy. Wild and brutal, like being hit by a charging rhino, they impacted hard and just ploughed right through everything. The power there is just silly, just crazy. Also to note that the volume control on USB is super sensitive. I never got past 12% on the windows volume output. I could have pushed a little higher but I didn’t want to. For the love of god make sure you start them playing with the volume all the way down. In short there are not meant to be used with an amp, they are meant to be their own DAC and their awn amp, use them that way.</div>
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Accessories: Lots. You get that case which I like then there was the normal cable but with a coil and a built in 6.25 to 3.5mm adapter. Then a micro USB cable to charge and play over. Then there is that crazy optical cable. That still kills me, headphones with an optical cable. Then you have their button controls. Okay se they aren’t really an accessory but I don’t know where they belong so it’s going here. You have controls, not totally unusual but there are all touch sensitive gesture controls. Seriously did Bluedio just go looking for every bit of tech they could throw into these? Those controls at first I thought on I’m not going to like them. Touch controls that I can’t see what I’m doing, oh no I won’t like that. Yet I did, they actually became incredibly easy to use and worked really well. Not what I expected but really interesting stuff. Oh and speaking of buttons, a hardware on of for Bluetooth, yey, no accidently leaving on and draining the battery.</div>
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Value: Well for £300 they are pretty expensive. The thing is at that price I wouldn’t really want such a bombastic bass response, I don’t care how good they are, they are tuned in a way I’d have a bit of trouble with. What saves them though is the inputs. Come on they have an optical input!!! That’s just madness right there. Now if you think of these as not a £300 pair of headphones but a £300 bundle of headphone, DAC and amp then its value for money rises significantly. For the money you get everything which isn’t bad for 300 is it?</div>
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N.B. It seems these have been brutally hacked in price, right now and I don’t know for how long. Right now it’s at £130 or US$180 in the Black Friday sale.</div>
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Conclusion: Ahh the Victory’s are a quite mad product. I’m not totally sure its good mad, its wild and fun for sure, wow that bass is stupendously vigorous. It’s got great clarity despite all that bass and it’s got a beautifully diffuse something going on up top too which I like. Yet that bass, good lordy these couldn’t be my only headphone. Oh good god no, they are wild like mad thing to be wheeled out for special occasions. Still for all that bass I do find I rather like these. Now I do think 12 drivers is a little bit silly but…… that faintly diffuse thing they have going on is really rather interesting. I know saying interesting isn’t that helpful but I’m not sure what other word to use, it’s just so oddly different yet delicate. It creates in some ways an almost open backed type feel yet they are in other acoustic terms so obviously sealed, its contradictory and weird.</div>
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Downside wise, there is two things. The cost and the bass. The cost is because if you want to use these are a normal headphone, half of what you’re paying for you aren’t using. The DAC and amp in there are eating a chunk of that price tag. The bass, now that is a preference thing. At this price range I expect a more refined, mature sound and these are wild beasts. If you want a heap ton of bass then have at it, they are epically crazy. For me I want it to behave more politely, be less potent. Yet they are nicely detailed and can do non bass centric music nicely yet when a bass track comes on it blows you away. So I’m not sure if it really counts as a down side but I think I have to raise it as an issue, its bass is so scaled it’s a potential issue for many.</div>
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So would I / should you buy one? M, I have no idea, it’s mad, it’s fun and killing me yet there’s something I like about it. Like a super sour sweety, I hate it but there is something appealing and I keep coming back for more. You? Well do you want all that bass and do you want its Bluetooth/own amp and DAC being optical or USB connection yourself? Seriously, the thing has an optical input!!! What other headphone can say that? Also I do rather like the touch controls, there is clearly a serious amount of tech gone into making these with their insane 12 drivers and freaking optical input. Its wild, it’s crazy, it’s not cheap but the thing is the most balls to wall crazy headphone I’ve ever met!!! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
9811194http://www.blogger.com/profile/02629007175203550717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375052104161619915.post-13567931076026226082016-12-03T13:42:00.002+00:002016-12-03T13:42:55.644+00:00Bluedio Victory Bluetooth and Optical Headphone Quick Review by mark2410<div id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480772296455_1711" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f5f5ff; color: black; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bluedio.com/en" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bluedio</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the sample.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Brief: Churchill’s headphones. (V for Victory, get it?)</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Price: £200 or US$300 N.B. Black Friday sale makes them £130 or US$180</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480772296455_1737" style="line-height: normal;">Specifications: Transducer type, Dynamic. Bluetooth version, 4.1. Frequency Response 10Hz to 22KHz. Impedance, 42 ohms x 2 32 ohms x 2 32 ohms x 8. Bluetooth Profiles aptX, A2DP, AVRCP, HSP, HFP, ampX-LL. Digital audio support 24bit 48KHz. SPL 112dB. THD <0.1%. Drivers 50mm x 2 30mm x 2 20mm x 8. Bluetooth music time 25 hours. Optical Music time 40 hours. Standby time 1000 hours.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Accessories: 3.5mm audio cable, 6.3mm patch plug, User manual, Carrying case with a buckle, USB charging cable, Pouch for cables, Optical audio cable with adapter.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Build Quality: They visually and to the touch feel flawless and they are weighty, things that feel built like tanks.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Isolation: Actually rather good. They clamp reasonably well and they have thick squishy pads that got a good seal and thus isolated quite well for a headphone. Fine for most uses and maybe even a little flying. Naturally way more than enough to mean you don’t notice traffic out and about so please do use your eyes near traffic.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Comfort/Fit: Well fit was good but they did impinge my ears a little, so while the pads are nice and soft they do get a little tiring on the ear after a few hours. So for me it was mostly fine but I’d like a little break every few hours.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Aesthetics: Nice. Not super great as they are all just mostly matte black tank like monsters. They are kinda nice but hmm, there is something I dunno. Though what is cool is the buttons being a touch sensitive gesture pad rather than buttons, that does look kinda cool in use especially. Seriously, touch sensitive headphones, that’s some fancy stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Sound: First off these are very much all about the bass. Whoa baby are these things all about the bass or what!!! You might think with all those drivers that the treble would be the star of the show but actually the treble is rather light, don’t ask why all those drivers then but they do have a curiously diffuse quality to them. Strange it is for sure but while I would have liked more it was interesting. Delicate and flighty that I couldn’t quite place its location it created an almost open like effect yet the bass is so obviously closed and walled, viscous power too. It just is a strange combination. That something with such a massive bass response and the things being so solidly constructed, heavy beasts. Then you get this diffuse delicate treble. It’s like an elephant performing ballet and performing it well. Something in your brain just says no no no, this is all wrong, yet there it is. The mids are a bit similar yet they are more heavy, rather over buttery. I’d like them to be more forward but it’s not. That might steal attention from the bass and trust me these are all about the bass. Fabulous epic crazy insane bass that will rip your face off. It’s crazy but it’s fun and I can’t quite make up my mind about them. Madness incarnate.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Value: Usually going for US$300 or £200 they are not bad, with all those inputs they have, its own DAC and amp in one its good. However the black Friday sale has them hacked down to £130 or US$180. Wooo basstastic value.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Pro’s: Soooo many inputs. Built like tanks. Mental bass response.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Con’s: Bass is subtle as a howitzer. Could do with a smidge more treble.</span></div>
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Yamaha MusicCast WX-010 Wireless Speaker Review by mark2410</div>
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Thanks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://uk.yamaha.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Yamaha UK</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the sample.</div>
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TLDR? Try here <a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/827742/yamaha-musiccast-wx-010-wireless-speaker-review-by-mark2410#post_13057867" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.head-fi.org/t/827742/yamaha-musiccast-wx-010-wireless-speaker-review-by-mark2410#post_13057867</a></div>
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First Impressions: Now I’ve already played with the WX-030, which is the bigger brother to the WX-010 so I’ve met the wireless, Airplay, MusicCast stuff before. Though this time it’s a little bit different. You see the 030, I only had one of them sent to me and it has a feature where you can pair two of them together to make a proper stereo pair. While the 030 had no problems belting out volume and power there was zero stereo separation and it obviously all came from one point. It was capable but unless you put it front of your face it was all off to one side and that for me meant it was background music only. So when Yamaha said would I like the 010 and might I like two, I said oh hell yes I would thank you very much.</div>
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On opening up the box these were even smaller than I thought they would be, mostly shorter. Heavy little things though. The physically are much like their siblings. Ethernet port, touch sensitive buttons up top and wall mount attachments on the back. Oh and obviously they have a power cable in. Plugging them both in I power them up and start the MusicCast app. Having both set them up then I linked them on the app with the little chain icon. Hmm nope that’s not making them left and right. Hmm I don’t seem to see how you do it. 2 min of google later I see how you do it, you have to held things on the speaker buttons themselves to turn them into a stereo pair. With that done I fire up some tunes. Nice. These don’t have the wildly excitable bass the 030 had, curiously they are quite crisp in the treble. I wasn’t expecting that. Gosh there are rather well balanced for dinky little things. Hmm has Yamaha chosen to steer away from the heavy bass of the 030 to appeal to the more pure listener or is it they see these are much more likely to live in a pair? These really aren’t sounds like dinky little speakers.</div>
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Source: Phones via MusicCast and Itunes via Airplay.</div>
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Setup: Okay so this wasn’t the first time I’ve set up some Yamaha MusicCast speakers and the basic, on their own bit is super-duper stupid simple. Even my parents managed it with no instructions from me. The pairing bit, making them a stereo pair I did need to look up but once I know what to do, it was easy. You just turn them off, then hold two buttons on the loft one for 5 seconds, then the lights flash. Then you move to the right one, press two buttons for 5 seconds, then its lights flash, then they pair up. Easy peasy.</div>
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Inputs: You have two, well three options. Wired, via the Ethernet sockets on them or wirelessly. That can be by either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. So you can stream things to them directly from your phone if you really want to. However really where they shine is when you hook them up to your home network via Wi-Fi. Then you can make use of the MusicCast functionality or the rather common Airplay. Since I use Itunes for me this was super easy to just pick the now one speaker option, once a pair they show as one combined option. If you go with the MusicCast app in your phone then you have a heap of options. They have Napster, Spotify, Juke and Qobuz readily there and of course you can stream things from your phone or from your own home network. Then you have Net Radio which frankly, I say avoid. Not because it’s bad, no no but because there are 80 bajillion stations. Sure it’s not super hard to scroll about on your phone but there are just so many it’s like sitting you on a beach and telling you to choose a grain of sand.</div>
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One small thing though, I did find myself wanting a little 3.5mm input jack. I rather thought that these would make such lovely little speakers to flank a TV. Now I believe you can use them as rears with some soundbars and receivers. Still would make a great little set for a bedroom or a nice hotel room. Hopefully it’s a feature that will come to the next version.</div>
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Outputs: Yes, though these are speakers their Bluetooth capabilities can be used to output to a pair of Bluetooth headphones if you like. To me I’m not totally sure why you would really want to do that but hey, the option is there if you want it.</div>
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Controls: On the units themselves the controls are basic and simple. You have power, volume down, volume up and a play/pause button. Very simple and easy to use. The rest of the control options are utilised thorough the MusicCast control app on your phone. You have a lot of options available to you, you can make use of yet it remains clear and obvious to use. I still think a little IR, really basic controller would be nice for volume control but you know, your phone is always close by anyway.</div>
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Aesthetics: I’m not super totally sold on the white, or not so much white but more a light grey. They are pleasant though, easy on the eye and pretty unobtrusive. Hmm I think I rather prefer speakers myself to be more eye-catching, a focal point in the room and these don’t do that. They are pleasant, gentle room additions that blend in well. Not so perfect for an audio centric room but for a shared living room or a bed room, these are going to have a high WAF I should think.</div>
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MusicCast: This is Yamaha’s new, well not so newish anymore, multi-room audio do dah, all in one, home audio thingy. The idea being you have lots of MusicCast stuff then they all integrated together so you can control everything, anywhere in the house, with your phone, wherever you are. Want to stream the TV audio from your Livingroom AV receiver to the Kitchen where you’re preparing for a dinner party, yep just send the audio to your MusicCast speaker in the kitchen. Then when your dinner guests arrive you can have every room playing music, the same all in sync with each other. Or you can have each room playing something completely different, from any source you feel like. In short the more MusicCast things you have the more versatile it becomes. However if I’m really honest, for me the big boon was Airplay. I’m not a big Apple fan but I do use Itunes so it’s just so easy for me to use and send stuff wherever. It really does seem such a clever system but I think unless Yamaha elect to send me a whole house worth of stuff, fingers crossed, then it’s hard to really fully immerse myself in it all. Still what I’ve seen I like. It’s really versatile and it seems to work very nicely, yet its real boon is that Yamaha make tons and tons of stuff. No to bash Sonos but they have a pretty limited range in comparison. Then not only do Yamaha make a lot of stuff, they make good stuff.</div>
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Controls: Great. I really can’t fault things. They were super simple, easy. Also the app that they use was really good and made playing about with sources and stuff really simple.</div>
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Sound Quality: Well have you ever heard anything by Yamaha that was crap? No, me neither. I mean I can’t state that they never ever have, I mean statistically they must have had a few duds over the years right? Still this a company that doesn’t just make speakers or AV equipment. They even make the damn instruments that are used to create the music in the first place. They make everything in between too it seems. From Grand piano’s to Drum kits and some things I really weren’t aware of like metallophones. My point is Yamaha has a breadth of musical experience that surpasses pretty much everyone.</div>
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Lows: The speaker is small, no way around the fact they are small. They quote the woofer/mid driver as being 9cm but it then has a dual bass radiator in each unit. This is a rather unusual set up but it would appear to work, making the effective surface area of the radiator much bigger than the 9cm driver could alone produce. So the bass, for suck a little thing is rather more linear than presumed. The 030 had boosted up the bass to appeal to a more mass audience but this, this hasn’t. Is this because they really expect these to run in pairs so they don’t need to thump out some much themselves? I don’t know the thinking but I approve. This is really rather good. The linearity is not at all bad, it does fall away very low down but there isn’t any great heap of mid/bass leaping out at you to distract you. It even has a valiant little stab at the bass line in “Your Father And I” which is no mean feat. You know if you added in a USB connection or 3.5mm input these would make a cracking little desktop set up. </div>
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Tonally it’s rather neutral in flavour, the inclination to warm things up is easy with something small to allude to more bass at the expense of clarity but they haven’t. The bass stays rather neutral, polite and rather articulate even when you push it. Nice.</div>
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Mids: What they do best, I can say that with some degree of ease too. If you make speakers of the dimensions used here they easy bit to get right, to really nail, is the mids. They are great little speakers vocally. Rather neutrally presented, perhaps a tiny sliver of added warmth just to nudge them to a more relaxed and easy listening style. What’s more you can push them, and I mean stupidly so for such diminutive things and they don’t begin to crap out. You know when a speaker starts to peak in regions it wasn’t at lower volumes. These things stay perfectly steady. They are a hint middy in their presentation too which I’m good with. Details in the vocals are nice, not the most explicit with that tiny bit of warmth but they are nicely smooth. Some soft jazz. Norah sounds great on them, with that longing and lingering things she does these little things really work great. It makes me want to have a roaring fire going and dim the lights. Okay maybe just putting a fire background on the TV and whacking up the heating. Their tonality is just perfect for that comforting feeling.</div>
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Highs: Well with the 030 they were rather polite up top and strangely the 010 isn’t. The tweeter has been cranked up and is quite prominent. Actually to the point where I think it’s too prominent. Not that it’s bad in its accuracy or quality but, well, the treble is the bit that’s most hard to do. You feed these some hard brittle treble and with their metallic edge they will batter it out at you. Sure it gives to some an added impression of clarity because it’s so square edged but…… well I’m sensitive to that and I found if you feed it hard, brittle and adamant treble it’s just hard. If you stick to beautifully recorded works, classical stuff especially all sounds quite wonderful, and the balance is perfect. Not unlike some of the Etys I’ve been playing with recently. These however aren’t as refined as they nor are they as likely to only encounter great quality music. These are capable for sure but…..when, and I do mean when, they encounter rubbish they aren’t terribly shy about letting you know.</div>
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Soundstaging: Okay, on their own, duh it’s small. So yeah get a pair and then you get some real stereo separation and the sound field is soooooooo much nicer. Each speaker isn’t massive so don’t put the too far apart but they manga a rather convincing sound scape. These are perfect for a little desktop set up. Now in volume terms, you can if you want make them VERY loud. But don’t, they are what they are and no matter how loud you make them you won’t mistake them for a grand orchestra on your desk. Enjoy them for the pleasing rendition they can give you, don’t play silly buggers with the volume dial.</div>
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Volume and Power: Volume they have absolutely no shortage of. You want to piss off people with them you can, the bass isn’t as able quite to keep up as there are plain limits what drivers, dual radiators or not, can do. Power, well, well they aren’t the most powerful sounding things ever. They don’t have an artificially boosted oomph to hold you in awe of them. These strike me as a more sonically pure item, for those who care about audio but have a wife that doesn’t share that passion. </div>
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Dynamics: Good. They are not intended to be driven like crazy so the dynamics can feel a mite tamed, which they are but good. Yeah, good I say, these are for grownups to appreciate things and they may not be best suited to going from a tiny little ping of a triangle then launching into Carmina Burana. These are small speakers and they are not trying to pretend they are vast behemoths. They can go from quiet to loud but their size, that soundstaging and power mixed in isn’t earth shattering. If these could do what a 20 grand pair of speakers the same size you could do, full sized speakers wouldn’t exist would they?</div>
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Value: So each of the WX-010’s come in at £150, or if you buy the two pack you seem to get a little, and I mean little discount, coming in at £290. If you took that £300 and looked to pair of speakers you could do better, you really could. But then you’d need an amp, then you’d need cables, then a source input then get the good lady wife (or husband) to agree to it all. These are way more compact and do away with all the bits of things training about or any complexity about you having to turn on 3 things to make it work. You just whip your phone out of your pocket and you’re away. Also if you want them as your own little music set up then you can whip them out and you’re pretty much done.</div>
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Conclusion: The WX-010’s are filled with a lots of great qualities, the bass quality on them is surprisingly good given their cost and more so for their size. Those dual radiators give it much more surface area and it means they don’t do what the 030 did and crank up the bass hump. Its linearity is much better than I thought would be present though at the same time the treble is rather more abundant that I expected. While its quality is good for the pricing it is hard edged and I can’t say I love it. If you’re going to be relatively abundant such as here then you need be great, delicate nuanced stuff and these are brighter and harder than I would expected or would have opted for myself.</div>
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Treble aside there isn’t much I can hold up and say is an issue, even the treble isn’t exactly deal breaking an issue. Though it is a curious thing, Yamaha have been so polite with the bass and reasonable why have they not gone for a more relaxed treble? The way it is it’s a little bit hard and in treble heavy tracks I just find it that bit too hard. However I’m probable sitting with them a lot more on axis than most users would. Most probably want them for much more subdued playback and hidden so the extra bight may then counteract such things. Yet they otherwise worked so nicely as a pair, it a good price too but in that role I really would have liked a manual aux input. Perhaps that’s the issue, I can’t quite decide what role I’d like them to slot into so maybe the idea is they do a bit of everything?</div>
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So would I / should you buy one? One, no. sure you could get one and use it on its own for background music but it really more comes into its own when it’s a pair. So would I get two? Maybe. I want to say yes but if only they also had an aux in. Running off my computer, they worked great for Itunes and my music playback worked great. However to use it for non Itunes originating audio too and that’s less easy to work. So I couldn’t just have them on their own but they are so nice sounding and soooooooo compact. It particular their bass is excellent given their diminutive dimensions. So really the question for you is do you want their fancy MusicCast abilities, streaming music form your device or from something online. For these music only abilities then they work great and the whole integration thing, paring up various rooms at this price and size you get great audio quality for such a little package.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480766397114_2223" style="line-height: normal;">Yamaha MusicCast WX-010 Wireless Speaker Quick Review by mark2410</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Thanks to</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://uk.yamaha.com/" style="color: #22229c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: normal;">Yamaha UK</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="line-height: normal;">for the sample.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Brief: Yamaha’s mini Sonos.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Price: £150 each or in the US US$180</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Specifications: Wi-Fi Yes, AirPlay Yes, Bluetooth Version/Profile Ver. 2.1 + EDR / A2DP, AVRCP, Audio Codec SBC, AAC* (*Receiving Only), Maximum Communication Range 10 m / 32.8 ft. 10 in. (without interference), File Format MP3, WMA, MPEG4-AAC, WAV(*2), FLAC(*2), AIFF(*2), ALAC(*1) --- (*1) up to 96 kHz (*2) up to 192 kHz, Ethernet Yes, Speaker Unit 9 cm (3-1/2”) Woofer x 1, 2.5 cm (1”) Tweeter x 1, Passive radiator x 2, Maximum Output Power 25 W (Woofer 15 W + Tweeter 10 W), Power Supply AC, Power Consumption 8 W, Standby Power Consumption 2 W (Network Standby ON, Bluetooth Standby ON, Wireless connection), 0.2 W (Network and Bluetooth Standby OFF), Dimensions (W x H x D) 120 x 160 x 130 mm; 4-3/4” x 6-1/4” x 5-1/8”, Weight 1.7 kg; 3.7 lbs, Colours Black, White</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Accessories: Well the power cable for them is all you get. Though the Apps to control them are available and free.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Build Quality: Like everything else I’ve seen from Yamaha, the build quality appears to be flawless. It is heavy, solid and I can see no issues with any aspect of it.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Aesthetics. The while one, with the more grey mesh outer is nice looking but I think the black looks much nicer in pics. Though if I had that I may think the other way round. They are mostly diminutive, easy to barely even notice them.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1480766397114_2262" style="line-height: normal;">Sound: The bass is considerably more even than you’d expect. The driver isn’t big at all but with two bass radiators it increases the surface area and thus the bass is more controlled and linear as it descends. It’s not flawless, it still does decline but its better behaved than tiny speakers would be otherwise while keeping the output quantity up. It’s unusual to have two bass radiators but it does work well. The mids are good, rather accomplished and probably what they do best. Then the treble, well that is strangely abundant. Not just that it’s a bit abundant but that it’s got a rather hard edge to it. That makes them feel rather enhanced in terms of their detail retrieval. It’s edgy and noticeably present which is unexpected. They do however do well with two of them together, the bass is competent and the mids are nice yet that treble is over edgy and with that edge it makes it sound more abundant than it really is. Yet there is an overall grown up balance, accomplished and treble aside, pretty evenly balanced. At low volumes and on their own they make for a great little background music speaker. Yet I couldn’t help but want them to be more use as a stereo pair. They coped with music so well that I wanted them to be usable for all audio not just the streaming supported kind.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Value: As a stereo pair very nice, on their own they are expensive for a background speaker. Surely one by itself you’ll only use for background stuff right?</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Pro’s: Good audio quality. High quality bass output. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Con’s: Treble too edgy. No aux input.</span></div>
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