Yes, the seller has a 14-day return policy, but buyer pays return shipping.
Here's the eBay listing.
With that nick of you I thought you were in Germany. But I see they do not ship to Germany.
Anyway, they write "We will refund the full price if you return the product
unopened within 14 days counting from the delivery date."
Common thing among Japanese sellers. That's why I asked.
Anyway, even if they write that, the chances are great that Ebay would force them to a refund even if the box is opened. At least in some Countries Ebay tend to think that people must be allowed to try a product in order to decide if keeping it or not. Important is only that you return the product "as new".
My humble guess is that LDAC will remain a Sony proprietary codec forever
If LDAC can not provide any better sound than APTX with Flac and MP3, I suppose that it will stay an elite thing for a while.
But if Sony wants to keep it proprietary they must make better headphones
I would never buy a Sony headphone just for the LDAC if I do not like its SQ and signature more than other headphones.
As you can read on the bottom of my posts, I like to enjoy music, not waveforms. It is more important to me that I like how headphones sound than if each last single bit is there (which I can only realize with super expensive equipment, super hi-res music, and lot ot testing. So, what for?).
About APTX, and your tests, is it a common thing that the sound wireless is a bit thinner, decreasing a bit the low range respect to the wired sound?
Just posted something about the performance of the Sennhesier Urbanite XL wireless on another thread on Headfi - see here in case it is of interest:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/749606/sennheiser-momentum-2-0-and-wireless/1680#post_11548862
Do you also notice a dark tone in the bass and low mids? Something which is not exaclty muddiness but which can be improved by decreasing low mids and upper bass with EQ?
. Now i am leaning towards ue9000 and xb950bt .......My Q to you is that has any one of them has the soundstage that fidelio has or should i get fidelio back I can get them almost same price for
hilips fidelio M2bt/bk00 and ue9000(25$ extra for these) and 50$ less for xb950bt what should i get please guide me...............
My answer is, get the Fidelio if you liked them so much!
The best thing would be for you to get Fidelio AND ue9000, and compare them by yourself.
I remember the ue like sounding very similar to the fidelio (after some little EQ adjustments). I do not remember any big difference in the Soundstage but I can not swear, sorry.
What I can tell you is that at the end I liked the Fidelio more. They had more highs, and were much more comfortable. because even if the UE are over ear, they are so heavy that after a while my head was hurting under the headband.
But comfort and sound are subjective (I for example consider the soundstage of the Plantronics better than the Fidelio, even if I like that in the Fidelio the mids are more present).
So, you should really compare.
Get the money, buy both, send back the "worst", get the money back
Here's another BT 3.0 headphone for you to try in future: Turtle Beach i60. I came across it multiple times but not many reviews out there. I am not quite willing to bite the bullet on something with limited reviews
No ANC on these. The cheaper Turtle Beach i30 have them though. i30 has good amazon reviews.
ahahha, but now you informed about an ANC one here
Ok, I take note, thanks for the suggestion, I did not know any of them.
This is likely a stupid question, but does it really matter if headphones have BT 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0. I'm asking in terms of sound quality, minimum lag when watching films, being able to answer a simple phone call, & their ability to pair with effectively with future mobile devices & eq apps for another couple years. I know 4.0 allows for things like multipoint connectivity, but in terms of listening to music, watching a movie or answering the phone, does it matter (need portable pair that won't be too hot summer--looking at AKG Y45BT, which are sold with 2.0 on Amazon, or the Bose SoundLink with 4.0).? Thanks!
The AKG are BT 3, not 2.
My answer is: we talked of this a few time ago. You can read it starting from
this post and the following ones.
So, as far as it is at least BT 2.1, all is ok.
I am not aware of any difference in sound between 2.1 and 3 and 4.
Maybe other users can tell.
I personally doubt you will find any decent headphone with 2.1, so, problem solved.
And between 3 and 4 I think the main difference is the low energy comsumption of the 4 (IF both source and receiver are 4).
At same time I kind of suspect that some headphones having connectivity problems is because of them trying to save too much power, so in my fantasy this should not happen with bt 3 (= bt 3 should be more stable) but it could be all a fantasy of mine.
I also ignored that multipoint was related to BT 4, where did you read this?
If you need multipoint, you have to chose the Bose over the Akg, end of the story.
I think that multipoint is cool. I never used it though. I am not a business man, so, I do not receive 20 calls in an hour.
I had the impression that the technology is not 100% stable and that it also could cause some connectivity problems (I observed them in a few multipoint headphones).
Between akg and bose, those two models, it is all a matter of price, portability, and signature. The akg are much cheaper, more portable, and have a warmer signature, with an accent on low mids which I personally feel the need to decrease with some EQ.
The bose sound a bit more balanced.
Maybe I would prefer the bose if they would be cheaper.
But for a portable pair, I gave my preference to the cheaper AKG and I do not regret it.
I use EQ anyway to retune it to my tastes.