Philips SHL4500WT Frame Headphones for Dynamic Bass 40 mm Neodymium Speaker Drivers (White)

The Philips SHL-4500Wt is mostly good with amazing details you can get at the bass,mids,and even treble at this price point.

The headphones mostly centers around the bass, if you're ever hearing music the bass will most certainly overpower the rest in volume. It almost feels like your're surrounded with woofers and subwoofers and theres a 2 tweeter and midrange speakers in front.

The sound stage isn't quite great.Hence,the confusion when using it very loudly in a song that is uncompatible with the sound signature of these headphones, it will feel like the sound is coming from basically everywhere in your head.

The other thing about this headphones is the strong clamp of the headband, i personally don't quite like it , the hair around my ear starts to sweat easily after around 5 mins of listening music to a pretty loud volume.

The last thing about this headphones is the mid-highs around 1,2k ish it's oddly tuned down,so the mids are loud but when a high frequency vocalist starts to sing the sound feels like it couldn't fly it sounds like theres a ceiling above the sound preventing it to spread out (mostly because the highs on certain frequency which are recessed)

Overall, if you've never tried a decent headphones in your life and at this price point this would certainly be an amazing buy.

Manufacturer asserts that they are extra-bassy and closed. That's a lie. They are semi-open and airy-sounding. Radiators are angled to the front with no dampening. I was astonished by the treble they provide (hadn't heard anything of the kind before among more expensive headphones). Almost non-sibilant and totally not fatiguing. The major drawback is resonant mud sometimes heard in female vocals in a narrow range of mid frequencies, yet not too harsh to become a problem, rather a peculiarity. However in rare examples of metal music that could become a problem (Hypersonic - Existentia for example). The minor drawback is inability to produce powerful bassy impact no matter how you try to amplify. While mid-and-upper bass is recessed, sub-bass is present in adequate quantity. You can still discern all the bass if you take effort in listening in but it doesn't get delivered on a plate. Headphones have no claim of neutrality. They are meant for re-listening your favorite recordings.
 
Shame that they have been discontinued.
 
Characteristics (subjective, 10 max):
Resolution: .............................8
Transparency: ........................7
Frequency range: ...................8
 
Balance (5 means equal):
High relative to mid: ................6
Low relative to mid: ................3.5
 
Frequency accentuation brakedown:
Bass is more: ........................low
Mids are more: ..................middle
Highs are more: ......................high
 
Qualitative characteristics:
Bass tightness.......................4.5
Highs smoothness..................7