viperxp
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Hello,
This review will be dedicated to new in-ear monitor earphones from 1more.1more? Well, those guys are making the Xiaomi piston headphones for Xiaomi, so that's a proper mass-production brand.
Besides making headphones for Xiaomi, 1more also sell some earphones (and headphones) with their own brand, and the ones reviewed here belong to that brand. The box and the left earphone feature a logo of "The Voice of China", and those are supposed to be another edition of the Xiaomi Piston 3 earphones. I am not sure how it can be true, as those earphones differ greatly.
What really surprised me is the price of those. At moment of writing the review, the earphones can be purchased for less than 20$, hope my review will help you understand if they are worth the money.
Shall we start?
The headphones arrive in a small carton box. The dominating colors are red and black (that's also the case with the earphones).
Inside the thin outer shell there is a small hard box
The box (padded) contains 3 compartments and two other boxes. Plastic box with the earphones, carton box with the carrying bag and stainless steel clip and compartment with user manual and additional information.
That's the user manual, and additional boocklet explaining the various features of the earphones. Other models of 1more headphones feature are tuned by a Grammy Award winning mixer
,according to 1more website. I guess that those pistons are also tuned by that person, because of the picture inside the features boocklet.
This small carrying bag (with a soft,valour-like feel) is bundled with the earphones. It has a nice feature in the opening - after you put earphones inside they will not slide out in any case - it is being closed automatically and you have to open it to slide the headphones out.
Small stainless clip - to help keep the earphones inside your ears.
And, we are getting to the earphones. They arrive in a small plastic box (very similar to the one that comes with second generation Piston's).
The bag contains several more tips for the earphones. Note that the "L" tips are not really "L", they are currently installed on the earphones, as I like a tighter fit.
The earphones come winded on a special flexible mount, that keeps the earphones safe and the cable untangled. It takes a little time to get used to, but the cable and the earphones should look like new if you use it. I think I will use the bundled bag, and use this device only for long-term storage.
Here they are, Surely look good (if you don't have enything against red and/or black
)The plug is gold plated, made of metal. Note the small tension reducer.
The cable is very soft and covered in a red fabric of some kind.
The cloth covered cable comes all the way to the Y split, where two silicone cables start. The spil point - also made of metal.
The remote is made from plastic (does not feel flimsy) but the buttons seem to be made from metal. The remote successfully controled Nexus 5 ( Android 6) and Iphone 6S+Ipad Air2 (iOS 9.2) , both volume and start/stop.
And here they are. The headphones are mostly made of metal (only he part that is facing the ear is made from plastic), Please note that there is also a venting hole.
Some size comparison pictures with Xiaomi Pistons 2.0 and OnePlus Silver Bullets. The overall quality and feel seems to be better on 1more headphones.
A picture of my setup, I think that the colors of the cable and Dignis case really suit each other well.
Hey, what about the sound ?
Well, those earphones sound great. That's the short description.A longer one : because the earphones are not too expensive, and GearBest has them titled as "1MORE Super Bass In-ear Earphones" I was afraid to get small subwoofers that would not be bearable. But I also hoped the description not to be precise, as many DJ headphones are very balanced, and not only "hitting hard" as you suppose they would.
So .... The sound signature is definitely V shaped, but with a controlled bass that does not bleed heavily to other frequencies, and a detailed highs. The mids are great too, but not as great as the highs and the lows. If you compare those earphones with the Pistons (I only have 2.0, not the 3.0), the 1more are more balanced, a less heavy on bass without excessive bleed and with more information in the high frequencies region. The mids are not recessed, but can't be described as "sweet".
And ... I listened to those phones with FiiO X3 second generation, Iphone 6S, Ipad Air 2 and Nexus 5.
Iphone 6S - great sound, not too much bass, 80-90% of volume is enough for most genres
Ipad Air 2 - more open sound than on the Iphone, more air, more volume, definitely better sound.
Nexus 5 - darker sound with bass bleed into other frequencies. This is not a good source for those earphones
FiiO 3 second gen - great sound, could not find a problem with that match.
The earphones are rated at 5mW max power input. They had no problem to cope with 50% of FiiO's 200mW , so that spec is underrated.
I listened to various artists and found no genre that it could not cope with gracefully. Maybe you'd need some equalizing on a music very saturated in high frequencies, besides that - no problem at all.
Artists I listened to (not limited to) : Manoway,Metallicca,Eminem,NVOB,Beck,Inna,The Pretty reckless,Rihanna,Taylor Swift,Selena Gomez ....
Fit :
The fit is much better for me than on Pistons 2.0, the earphones stay in my ears and don't fall off when I sit or walk around. For running - around the ear fit locks the earphones in very
secure.
Conclusion, final words
Right now those are my best earphones. If someone will ask me for recommendation of cheap and good sounding earphones I will surely recommend those earphones, as they sound really good to my taste, have a nice set of bundled stuff.
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the headphones were provided for review by www.gearbest.com
