Blue Microphones has a winner on its hands, or uh, ears with the Mo-Fi. Using your pretty Lo-fi Smartphone, ( lets be honest, it really is you know.), or just as merely so so tablet, the Mofi will bring life to your music, favorite video better than those devices playing have a right too.
3 modes just for you.
Totally passive, no amplifier mode, next the amplified per its own inside "Audiophile" amplifier. It mostly is too. The +6 bass boost with amplification mode.
First lets have it with no help from its friends inside. Passively, these are my favorite listen. Using my Schiit Audio Magni 2 Uber, the MoFi is a great closed back Headphone, frankly rivaling my AKG 701! Now that is high praise indeed. Richer, more involving, less Clinical than the 701's, the Blue has my AKG's jealous in the plushness of its presentation.
Bass is full, and well balanced, remember, no DSP anything here. All Analog from start to finish. Not as extended as my 701's, but a body, and richness that I sometimes wish the AKG 701's would do. Quick too, as drums, and bass guitar, and lower register instruments have to offer.
Midrange continues the theme, but is not thick, but lacking a smidgen of detail the 701's will give you. Still allot to hear here with timbres of instruments that live here do have indeed have allot to say. Pick your favorite vocalist, you can't lose, female, male, the Blue has them singing a tune that is very convincing. Lacks the air, and soundstaging as say the 701's could make, but you are intimate with the singer. Reminding you this is with the Schiit Audio Magni 2 Uber Headphone amplifier my impressions thus far.
Treble is smooth, a bit lacking in air or extension, but it is never harsh, or forward in its prose. Cymbals, Hi hats, or Ride Cymbals done well here. The Treble finishes off what is truly an engaging, and balanced listen.
Listening with the internal amplifier with my LG G3 smartphone is a different experience indeed. Noise floor of my G3 are a definite negative distraction, and takes away in the dynamics department due to the poor signal to noise ratio. Smart phones have a long way to go before they get my vote as a favored listening device. The cheap OP Amp noisy with digital interference thrown in for free are no ones friend in a music listen.
However, the MoFi does well for what it has in the amplified mode or +6 mode as it will bring life from the dreck of the Smartphone mobile arena. Bass is well controlled if mired a bit by the noise, Midrange continues to engage with a richness that that Smartphone cannot perform due to its feeble Op Amps. Or I.C. cheap swept off the floor amps. Treble when also not mired by the noise of the Smartphone is as good as I could hope for.
That is smooth, and easy to listen too. I think Blue did a great job on what is a poor excuse for a listening experience, and made it at least tolerable. Now the LG G3 has more headroom, and output power than most of its competition, but still this is not my favored listening device. In a pinch? Okay, yes.
Negatives are the heavy, clamps hard on the head if you hastily put them on. Take the time to dial in the fit with the tension knob in the headband, and the articulating earcups. You'll be glad you did. My AKG's in comparison are so much more comfortable to wear. Way lighter too! The MoFi weighs in at about a pound or so, so keep that in mind if you want to listen for extended periods of time.
So in sum, the Blue Mic Mofi is a great first effort, and win in most categories. Would be devastating if it were bluetooth too, like the Pendulumic headphones which are outstanding and less costly than these. However, when run passively, and with a quality Headphone Amplifier externally, you will be very happily engaged indeed. If isolation is needed, and it would involve a Mobile device, yes the MoFi is recommended with the above caveats of fitment, and weight. I say, make it Blue tooth so you can isolate the noise from the Mobile device for a much more engaging, and more dynamic listen.
3 modes just for you.
Totally passive, no amplifier mode, next the amplified per its own inside "Audiophile" amplifier. It mostly is too. The +6 bass boost with amplification mode.
First lets have it with no help from its friends inside. Passively, these are my favorite listen. Using my Schiit Audio Magni 2 Uber, the MoFi is a great closed back Headphone, frankly rivaling my AKG 701! Now that is high praise indeed. Richer, more involving, less Clinical than the 701's, the Blue has my AKG's jealous in the plushness of its presentation.
Bass is full, and well balanced, remember, no DSP anything here. All Analog from start to finish. Not as extended as my 701's, but a body, and richness that I sometimes wish the AKG 701's would do. Quick too, as drums, and bass guitar, and lower register instruments have to offer.
Midrange continues the theme, but is not thick, but lacking a smidgen of detail the 701's will give you. Still allot to hear here with timbres of instruments that live here do have indeed have allot to say. Pick your favorite vocalist, you can't lose, female, male, the Blue has them singing a tune that is very convincing. Lacks the air, and soundstaging as say the 701's could make, but you are intimate with the singer. Reminding you this is with the Schiit Audio Magni 2 Uber Headphone amplifier my impressions thus far.
Treble is smooth, a bit lacking in air or extension, but it is never harsh, or forward in its prose. Cymbals, Hi hats, or Ride Cymbals done well here. The Treble finishes off what is truly an engaging, and balanced listen.
Listening with the internal amplifier with my LG G3 smartphone is a different experience indeed. Noise floor of my G3 are a definite negative distraction, and takes away in the dynamics department due to the poor signal to noise ratio. Smart phones have a long way to go before they get my vote as a favored listening device. The cheap OP Amp noisy with digital interference thrown in for free are no ones friend in a music listen.
However, the MoFi does well for what it has in the amplified mode or +6 mode as it will bring life from the dreck of the Smartphone mobile arena. Bass is well controlled if mired a bit by the noise, Midrange continues to engage with a richness that that Smartphone cannot perform due to its feeble Op Amps. Or I.C. cheap swept off the floor amps. Treble when also not mired by the noise of the Smartphone is as good as I could hope for.
That is smooth, and easy to listen too. I think Blue did a great job on what is a poor excuse for a listening experience, and made it at least tolerable. Now the LG G3 has more headroom, and output power than most of its competition, but still this is not my favored listening device. In a pinch? Okay, yes.
Negatives are the heavy, clamps hard on the head if you hastily put them on. Take the time to dial in the fit with the tension knob in the headband, and the articulating earcups. You'll be glad you did. My AKG's in comparison are so much more comfortable to wear. Way lighter too! The MoFi weighs in at about a pound or so, so keep that in mind if you want to listen for extended periods of time.
So in sum, the Blue Mic Mofi is a great first effort, and win in most categories. Would be devastating if it were bluetooth too, like the Pendulumic headphones which are outstanding and less costly than these. However, when run passively, and with a quality Headphone Amplifier externally, you will be very happily engaged indeed. If isolation is needed, and it would involve a Mobile device, yes the MoFi is recommended with the above caveats of fitment, and weight. I say, make it Blue tooth so you can isolate the noise from the Mobile device for a much more engaging, and more dynamic listen.
BEUATIfully balanced and my go-to headphones when I'm a little drunk. Otherwise I reach for the Denon MM400, or... if I'm working as an audio engineer I use the Yamaha MT220 which is becoming popular here even though it's the ugliest (but comfiest) headphone possibly ever. It is utterly accurate. Studio H8 monitors and Mt220 - very very very close. Yamaha brand is a coincidence. My motorbike (yamaha) is similar to my monitors. Yamaha is an overall company like unilever.
You want a more engaging smiling listening-for-fun sound than Mr Speakers Mad Dog? Get the Blue Mofi and use the built in ANALOGUE amp (oh yes, it's sweet as you like). It's not as clean as the Mad Dog but it's a far better listening experience. I'd NEVER use the Blue MoFi for mixing. For that, the Yamaha MT220 - utterly spot on - found hiss on tracks I thought were clean. Only MT220 found that hiss, no other headphones, nor my monitors.
Other fun times are had with
Denon MM400 (yeah! Ace!)
FidelioX2
Beyer t51p
UE9000
Current line up.
I was going to buy the Oppo Pm-3 but it seems the Denon MM400 is better. I'm annoyed by that. I was looking forward to a more X2 sound from the PM-3.
The MM400 is nice, but a little polite. Nothing AT ALL to annoy you. Bass goes super deep, no big deal about it Mids a little pulled back - not great for vlassical, highs seem to have a dip around 2khz. I'm forever dipping that ********* frequency in guitars when I work. So for any correctly managed song the MM400 will sound a little laid back. Regardless of that, it is an astonishingly nice listen and I prefer it to the Fidelio X2. Recently said "best headphone Denon ever made". That could well be true, but they don't go KERPOW like the Mofi. The MM400 serve dinner on a silver platter. The Mofi throw a big mac at you fro 20 feet away. Sometimes I want dinner shot at me - it's fun. One headphone for life? I will choose the Mofi for its chesty power and depth in subs and just being a stupidly wonderful thing.
I joined headfi here, tried, but I am so pissed off with trying to find anything on this place that's similar to internet circa 2002, I think I'll just stay on me own with me own thoughts.