Flek said:
You guys dont really think the apple in ears are great..do you?
Ive reviewd them an they are a overpriced piece of shit if you ask me. They dont (!) have any bass for example. I wouldnt recomend them at all ...
If I was a smug bastard, I'd say that you should stop reviewing headphones - but for real, I think you should give those another chance, as after listening to them for few days I too think you'll be hard pressed to find earphones in the same price range that sound better. Also, trust me, this was not what I thought at first. I was ready to dismiss them completely after listening to them after my Denon C751 for five minutes - that is until I started paying more attention to what I'm hearing. Yes, they sound 'flat' but ideal headphones should sound flat. They shouldn't be coloring the sound in any way as that just distorts the original recorders intention of what the song is supposed to sound like. There's a reason audio professionals in studios go exclusively for as flat sounding monitor headphones as possible. You can color the sound later on through amps/equalizers if you want, but there's no real reason headphones should be doing that, other than personal preference.
They do have bass, not as strong as some others, but if you for example compare them (with much cheaper) Sennheiser CX300, Senns have much stronger bass, but the bass is also much more distorted and boomy, much less crisp and controlled, and mids/highs sound completely muffled in comparison. Hell, my Denon C751, which are more expensive than Apple in-ears, also have the problem where some complex sound sequences are mushy and muffled. I have yet to find a single song that would confuse apple in-ears like that. Everything sounds really clear and well defined in them. Also, Denons sound a lot more 'closed' - like if all sound is right inside the head (which is actually fine for some music), where with Apple's there's some sense of larger space where the sound is coming from.
