Asstr0naut
New Head-Fier
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People saying it's less bassy, are probably people used to V2. For me, V3 are a little less bassy.
I got my Piston 3.0's in a couple of hours ago, I may end up writing a longer review but I'll list my first impressions here.
Personally I don't understand people saying that these aren't bassy, in my opinion they have a ton of bass compared to what I'm used to.
They sound very nice, especially so for the price. They have without a doubt exceeded my expectations.
The highs are a little much for me still, but maybe that will get better as time goes on.
As for the mids, I would definitely like if they were more pronounced. They sound good but are fairly low.
For electronic music they sound very nice, the bass really helps here and the accentuated highs bring out a lot of detail in the music.
With rock/metal music the lacking mids are really noticeable, the vocals fade in to the background compared to the drums/guitars/high hats. They seem to suffer the most with male vocalists compared to female vocalists.
My reference material are a set of Yamaha HS80M monitoring speakers in an acoustically pretty good room, a pair of Sennheiser HD555 and the German-Maestro GMP 8.35D's.
Conclusion: for the ~20$ I spent for them they sound really good, maybe some EQing could fix the mids but for electronic music they are good as is.
Piston 3 is definitely not bassy. You will understand it when you have FIDUE A71, you will know what the real ton of bass is.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Top-Selling-Original-Xiaomi-Piston-3a-Youth-Version-Earphones-Headphones-Headset-In-Ear-apperance-sound-comfort/32335331748.html
It's Iess expensive. Is it better than Xiaomi Piston 3?
OK I just ordered a pair from tinydeal and paid for tracked postage by PostNL Registered Air Mail. Grand total less than £10. It should take less than two weeks for delivery and if nobody else has made a hands on (ears on?) comparison between regular Piston 3 and Youth Edition I will do so.
. Isolation matters a lot in this use case, which surely is hardly an unusual use case for an Android headset.
I don't have the same experience as far as microphonics go. They're average I would say, not that loud but definitely there.
With the IIs, the included metal clip makes a huge difference in microphonics. When I go running, I put the cable in my shirt then clip at the neckline of the shirt, gets rid of nearly all the noise.
I got my p3s a few days ago from Geekbuying and it's legit. Also their costumer support told me that this is a 100% original product.
God damn it I ordered them at 21$
how long did shipping take? I bought them a few days ago and they gave me a tracking number for PostNL but it says there's no information on tracking. Likely it hasn't got through yet as it does say 15-30 days... seen some complaints about their slow shipping