Man, this is desperately quiet in here, nobody rocking the MH1 anymore?
I for one have yet to find as good a sound for as little money...
Come on people, show your love!
Me! After spending quite a bit of time with them I feel that it's time I do a write up about them.
I got into personal audio way back when Sony Ericsson was still a thing and I bought my first phone which turned out to be my first dap, which is the w550i. Fun times when phones aren't just a slab of sandwiched glass and is an extension of your personality. And this were the iems that came with it:
To me, they sounded awesome and they gave me an idea of what my collection of songs sound like and the type of sound I came to enjoy. But alas, the romance died when one side crapped out and I accepted it as part and parcel of life, moved on to other things in life but with fond memories that I still keep till today.
Fast forward to recent times when I became and adult and had disposable income to spare, and I took the nostalgic trip back in time to revisit some of the things I enjoyed growing up and with that my journey to audiophilia began.
The MH1C came into the picture a few years ago when I was educating myself about stuff like sound signatures, impedance matching, etc. At that time I already had some technically good iems but they have a different sound signature to my default preferance and i wanted to test the theory that an iem with an agreeable tuning or sound signature will subjectively beat a more technically proficient iem with a 'dull/boring/lifeless' sound signature, with price point not taken into consideration and that's where I came across write ups regarding the mh755 and MH1C. Without auditioning and based purely on online reviews and graphs, I had assumed that they fit my criterias, as they are basically consumer earpieces that came free with the mobile phones, were from the same era as my old walkman phone, had a consumer friendly warm and v shaped sound signature, hard to come across now but still don't cost an arm or a leg, and coincidentally came from the same audio company that captured my attention all those years ago. So basically, the sound that I was accustomed to growing up.
What I realized that with age also comes different forms of expectations. Maybe it was my very first experience with iems back then, akin to your very first high school crush. Maybe I became picky with age. Maybe my tastes had changed without me consciously knowing. Could be any number of other reasons as well. But i think you can see where this is going.
I am in no way saying that they sound like trash or that's what to be expected of things you get for free. I'd pick these over any of apple's earbuds/airbuds/airpod pro any day of the week. Send them to a rewiring guy to replace the cables with decent ones with a 3.5mm straight jack, cuz i think right angle jacks don't go well with lightning/usb-c dongles, or maybe with a mic and 3 button control if you can find one, plug them into your 'lowly' apple or usb-c dongle, stream some music through spotify and watch your friends who've only listen to apple earpods all their lives light up. That's exactly my reaction going from random earbuds that came free with discmans to the iems that came with my first walkman phone. But alas, at the time of writing, I am unfortunately not them.
Tl;dr,
I like them, just not the same way I used to. Would I throw them or give them away? No, as they represent a critical point in time, akin to a save point, where I can always revisit whenever I choose to.
Was my favourite IEM when it was a big hit around here but the cable killed me. Finally found someone who sells modded MMCX MH1C. Testing with my Tin T2 cable. This somehow sound less bassy and more balanced than my original one. Mesh looks different too. Sounds real good tho 
any other cable to recommend? 
