Wizzard
New Head-Fier
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Now, the title is slightly misleading but throughout my relatively brief audiophilic experience, I've realised that for vast majority of Head-Fi residents, the sense of bass is clearly much stronger than me (in other words, what they call bassy is not, in my opinion) and hence the title.
Pretty simple, looking for whatever kind of portable earphones/headphones/IEM's for no more than £30.
The budget is a tight one but this is due to the fact that my intended headphones are half price and cost £23 and I just don't see the need to spend more.
The music that I listen to is 97% Electronic. It's either Progressive Trance, Electro House or D'n'B.
I've had lots of headphones in the past (talking about portable here) but only 2 of them have been somewhat decent.
I had the UE 220 which I absolutely loved and thought they were incredible. The bass was just about right and everything about them was fantastic. However, the cable broke after about a year even though I always rolled them up. So, once this happened I came to Head-Fi to look for IEM's and right enough, found a suitable pair, Klipsch Image S2 which everyone suggested. Unfortunately, they were no what I expected. The SQ was sufficient but nowhere near the 220's quality. Bass was poor (although, people assured me that S2 have plenty of it). And the biggest problem of all, once you put the headphones in, it felt like an alien was probing your brain (they go in real deep). They also look very strange and it didn't bother me at the start but with time, it started to annoy me.
I guess the type of sound that I'm looking for is commercial. Okay, let me explain. As far as I'm aware, most popular headphone consumer brands make a specific type of headphones. Like Beats for example. Very bass heavy and not all that suitable for most audiophiles. I would classify these as commercial types of headphones. Now, I'm by no means and audiophile so this is the kind of sound I like. Something that has overpowering bass would really work for me. For example, I tried Beats Solo and thought they had a great sound (don't hate on me) so that could be a ballpoint as to what I'm looking for.
So, right now I have 3 options.
AIAIAI Y-Model, AIAIAI Swirl 2.0 and AIAIAI Pipe.
The reason for my choices is that I've found a quite a good deal on them and I doubt that they'll be bad for the price as they seem to be tended for a trendy market which in turn would typically feature the commercial sound which in another turn is what I want.
I'm leaning towards the Swirl or Y-Model because they're more expensive than Pipe (only by a few quid but this might make a difference) but I'm unsure what the difference is as they look near exact same and I can't find Y-Model on their website to compare with Swirl.
I apologies for the rather long and incoherently written article but I'm half asleep so that's my excuse for today.
Thanks in advance,
Wizzard
Pretty simple, looking for whatever kind of portable earphones/headphones/IEM's for no more than £30.
The budget is a tight one but this is due to the fact that my intended headphones are half price and cost £23 and I just don't see the need to spend more.
The music that I listen to is 97% Electronic. It's either Progressive Trance, Electro House or D'n'B.
I've had lots of headphones in the past (talking about portable here) but only 2 of them have been somewhat decent.
I had the UE 220 which I absolutely loved and thought they were incredible. The bass was just about right and everything about them was fantastic. However, the cable broke after about a year even though I always rolled them up. So, once this happened I came to Head-Fi to look for IEM's and right enough, found a suitable pair, Klipsch Image S2 which everyone suggested. Unfortunately, they were no what I expected. The SQ was sufficient but nowhere near the 220's quality. Bass was poor (although, people assured me that S2 have plenty of it). And the biggest problem of all, once you put the headphones in, it felt like an alien was probing your brain (they go in real deep). They also look very strange and it didn't bother me at the start but with time, it started to annoy me.
I guess the type of sound that I'm looking for is commercial. Okay, let me explain. As far as I'm aware, most popular headphone consumer brands make a specific type of headphones. Like Beats for example. Very bass heavy and not all that suitable for most audiophiles. I would classify these as commercial types of headphones. Now, I'm by no means and audiophile so this is the kind of sound I like. Something that has overpowering bass would really work for me. For example, I tried Beats Solo and thought they had a great sound (don't hate on me) so that could be a ballpoint as to what I'm looking for.
So, right now I have 3 options.
AIAIAI Y-Model, AIAIAI Swirl 2.0 and AIAIAI Pipe.
The reason for my choices is that I've found a quite a good deal on them and I doubt that they'll be bad for the price as they seem to be tended for a trendy market which in turn would typically feature the commercial sound which in another turn is what I want.
I'm leaning towards the Swirl or Y-Model because they're more expensive than Pipe (only by a few quid but this might make a difference) but I'm unsure what the difference is as they look near exact same and I can't find Y-Model on their website to compare with Swirl.
I apologies for the rather long and incoherently written article but I'm half asleep so that's my excuse for today.
Thanks in advance,
Wizzard