vanfrosty
New Head-Fier
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I excitedly unpackaged my PK2s on Tuesday. It had been about two weeks since my old iRiver pack in buds that I used for my walk to work had died. The suitors from Shure, Klipsch and Creative that I tried in the days following my old bud's demise weren't working. They isolated too much, took to much time to put in and take out, and irritated my canals.
I remembered stumbling upon some purportedly good sounding standard ear buds while shopping for the Grados I bought a while back. After bumbling around for a bit, I found the PK1s once more. Head amp required eh? That's a pity. Low impedance PK2s you say?
The reviews sealed the deal; they sounded like the perfect solution. The problem was that it was going to take a week for the ones I ordered to get to me. I stopped by a department store and picked up some 15$ Sony buds to tide me over.
Fast forward to my first listen. Gorillaz's first album happned to be playing on my MP3 player, and a bit of one song hit me with some impressive sound staging. I listened through bits of my favorite material, and my impression was that the PK2s were pretty good, even if they didn't blow me away.
I've been using them for a couple days now, and to justify my purchase, I put them up against the cheap Sony buds.
I'll be damned if I can tell them apart most of the time.
I switched to my Grado SR225s, thinking that maybe I just had tin ears... Nope, the Grados still have that gut stabbing clarity which blows both the Sonys and the PK2s out of the water.
Why can't I tell the difference between these POS "Bass Sound" Sony buds and the PK2s that cost five times as much and are generally well respected? I wasn't expecting five times the enjoyability from them, but I was hoping for something a little more substantial than the odd instance of nice sound staging.
Can somebody tell me what makes these so much better than most other buds? Am I insensitive to certain qualities of sound which others can appreciate more?
Meh.
I remembered stumbling upon some purportedly good sounding standard ear buds while shopping for the Grados I bought a while back. After bumbling around for a bit, I found the PK1s once more. Head amp required eh? That's a pity. Low impedance PK2s you say?
The reviews sealed the deal; they sounded like the perfect solution. The problem was that it was going to take a week for the ones I ordered to get to me. I stopped by a department store and picked up some 15$ Sony buds to tide me over.
Fast forward to my first listen. Gorillaz's first album happned to be playing on my MP3 player, and a bit of one song hit me with some impressive sound staging. I listened through bits of my favorite material, and my impression was that the PK2s were pretty good, even if they didn't blow me away.
I've been using them for a couple days now, and to justify my purchase, I put them up against the cheap Sony buds.
I'll be damned if I can tell them apart most of the time.
I switched to my Grado SR225s, thinking that maybe I just had tin ears... Nope, the Grados still have that gut stabbing clarity which blows both the Sonys and the PK2s out of the water.
Why can't I tell the difference between these POS "Bass Sound" Sony buds and the PK2s that cost five times as much and are generally well respected? I wasn't expecting five times the enjoyability from them, but I was hoping for something a little more substantial than the odd instance of nice sound staging.
Can somebody tell me what makes these so much better than most other buds? Am I insensitive to certain qualities of sound which others can appreciate more?
Meh.