Turtle Beach Ear Force P21 Gaming Headphones Review

Any player that takes place at night, knows how important it is to have a solid set of headphones. We have examined the solutions in the past for the Xbox 360 Turtle Beach X4s and all-in-a Tritton AX Pro If your PlayStation 3 is the console of choice, May you want to check the ear P21. Even if we do not offer true 5.1 surround sound are very comfortable and offers many customization options to meet their gaming needs.

The P21s are black plastic. La banda connects the adjustable padded earcups, which are covered in a glossy black shell. Each cup is filled with a mesh fabric that we found comfortable on long series of games for PlayStation 3.

When stationary, the handset feels a little expensive, especially when the earcups attached to the head. There is a certain characteristic pits them - which is not the headset over the overall performance, most of us later.

the left earcup out the boom mic. It is quite long and fully adjustable, you should not harm perfectly. The tip of the microphone has two areas of hearing, his voice for one and one for the noise that the headset is off. We enjoyed the fact that the arm can rotate through 360 degrees of sight when not in use.

A few meters from the connection of children is on the line of control that can be clipped to your clothing, if desired. In the box you will find various switches and buttons that allow you to mute the microphone, monitor chat, games and low volume, as well as enable mode Expander (which seeks to make more noise). However, we have had time to play our best away.

Setting the P21 headset is very easy thanks to its ability to bypass the RCA analog audio connections. Doors can join right hook to his son a PlayStation 3 on your TV or receiver, avoiding the need to change the child, if you want to use the headset. The length of cable is also very generous, offering up to 16 feet to work with him. A USB extender allows you to connect your headset to your PS3 to chat.

While we welcome the support of stereo analog audio, we were a little disappointed to see that you can not use a digital optical audio connection with the P21. It also means that the headset is capable of producing surround sound, as we have seen in other products 5.1 Turtle Beach.

During our tests, we were impressed by the performance of the P21. We used the boom microphone to a pair of hands playing SOCOM: Confrontation that has produced concrete results. Our team was clearly heard and we were able to adjust the fit speak for our preference.

The sound quality is good, even with a stereo, we were able to say whether the blows were coming. However, the P21 is not a good job with sound insulation. If you use the headset, next to someone who will probably be able to hear what is happening around the earcups.

The P21 can also use a PC (or Mac) Gaming Headset. You can use the USB cable as a virtual sound card 1/8-inch-to-stereo-RCA or buy an adapter to connect to your main soundcard. In any case, the headset is good, adding to the total value of the product.

We liked the old P21 performance, we only support 5.1 surround sound. Price about $ 80 in May to find another town, if you need more than the PlayStation 3 game sessions. The company produces 5.1 surround sound headphones - X4 - twice the price, but can be used with a wide range of home theater. However, it does not work with PS3 chat in the game, only sound.

The other alternative is the Tritton AX Pro 5.1 for about $ 150, which can lead to confusion in May to implement, but offers near-universal compatibility.

AKG K 701 Headphones Review

Oh Mother, I am always excited when I heard rumors about the existence of AKG K 701 headphones! If you are one of those audiophile smile, to those of us who, like the headphones, you're probably rolling eyes and think that the lack of a rich inner life.

However, to the conclusion that the Skippy-some of us with these prosumer doses in our studies, in recording sessions, and the inclusion in the barn at night critical listening sessions in which the use of auxiliary Jaded beggar their high sensitivity. These are not three deer, upchuck phones flogs your friendly flight first flight characteristic. We are talking about a series of tools that are on a flea fart in a cathedral.

Well, some of us. Me, I'm a geek, headphones, so that the message that the AKG was the introduction of a dynamic flagship headphones, I had aquiver with anticipation. Because the last major attack on the state of the art headsets of 1000 K, the so-called AKG "earspeaker," especially since the speakers are similar in many ways prior to this Saturday against the ear Pinna and the bar in the music, but the pump more or less directly into the ear, like most mobile phones. Even animals to ride. John Marks is a big fan, and John has great taste in art, but I admired more than 1000 K, I loved it, especially because I am incredibly fiddly. I was convinced that I never earspeakers same angle, so it was always on the lookout for a better balance. As Bob Reina once felt about electrostatic speaker system of a large island, where you desperately need something to do, but for regular listening, not so much. In addition, the 1000 K close to great expense in AKG is his time last year.

He was the K 701s would be about $ 400, $, the 450-and often discounted. And by the time Head-Fi had its New York Regional Meeting in November 2005, the word around the Internet, the K 701s would be barely sufficient. AKG distributor in the United States has two couples to take a margin of Tyll Hertsens and a "hard-core headphones. Neither the couple for more than a few hours of music playback, during playback, and fascinating, with a hardness that I am not prepared to trade in my reference Sennheiser HD-650S. But they are very comfortable, and their frames, wire, leather belt, and white, porcelain-like search engine and a retro-looking accommodation Futuristic fashion statement . They were too quiet, not a hint of noise or sums.

Two days later I received an email from Hertsens: "I have more than 100 hours of music playback in the 701s and I have a new reference. You have not heard half of what they could do." It is better to believe that I have been waiting five months for a review sample seemed a long time. Why so long? AKG a blow on the hands. They were not fast enough to meet demand.

Occasionally refuses to even listen
If you do not focus on high-end headphones, $ 450 sounds like a lot of pasta, and it is. You can say what are those things of gold? There is nothing in the K 701s is anything unusual, unless you count the rare type of technology that sweats all the small details.

Take the cable, for example. AKG-German-English translation engine called "true bi-wiring" in some publications and "balanced" in others. What do we mean that the 701s separate assembly for each engine rather than a common basis (although the ¼ "jack is not a common basis, of course). This is probably one of the reasons why, as they were beaten by the 701s in peace for the first time heard, and every time thereafter.

AKG is 99.99% pure OFC which are not "six nines" (99.9999% pure) copper, but it is not the best use of headphones, good. The use of voice coil of wire aircraft, which is relatively common in high-quality speakers and microphones, but is still below the common doses. Flat wire coils better concentrate the magnetic field in the coil in the vote to gain control of the upper membrane traffic.

The 701s also the AKG Varimotion converter. Contour of the iris is often in the middle of the periphery. The Center serves as a rigid tweeter, while the more flexible limits lower frequencies. AKG Runnels rigid court in order to optimize the mechanical impedance of the membrane, or AKG, says "the diaphragm has been optimized to prevent unwanted vibration modes." The point is that the center of the membrane pistonically as possible and then keep the coil centered in the magnetic field. The AKG says, "whereby the harmonic distortion, extended bass and greater volume."

As already mentioned, the 701s are very comfortable. His huge, ear-enveloping foam pads, with a kind of velvet, on Saturday in my head for hours without seeming warm or tight. AKG used to say, "3-D foam, which calls for foams of different densities. They also claim the way bearings allows the driver to look at the ears "in the right angle." You can not prove they were, but the results are hard to argue with Sonic. The hammock style leather sling in the spring wire connection on rails cradle the listener's head also contributes to the luxury good. The way that the section head and ears spoiled 701s.

Since the K 701 is not available for the iPod generation, but AKG market study, mobile phones ended with a ¼ "jack. However, a significant proportion of the metals from ¼" to 1 / 8 "converter, if you include the use of EM with a source that only a mini-jack (my margin Micro headphone amplifier, for example). AKG includes a docking cradle "essentially a podium with a cut-foam, the above-Perca 701s recording console or desktop. At first I thought that this is the dumb Gimme I've ever seen, but I ended with a lot. Actually, a place for something that probably makes it I'm back in the chaos that is my office. Oh, I'm kidding, that in the chaos that is my life.

There must be someone who hears my story?
Despite the brilliant whiteness of his ears, K 701 is not a connection with the ubiquitous iPod. Because it is a ¼ "connector problem, of course, and the headphones are big, even if it is light, and are not really easy to build on Noggin running or cycling while. Even if you're in seated position with his spacious back seat aircraft, the loss of your shoulders open societies make poor.

So, if you use the C-701s? Controlling the recording sessions, of course, as anywhere you need high quality tools for listening, which means that in my house the whole world, I have a headphone amplifier: office, living room and laundry (weird, I know, but my wife is finding subtle ways to do things for me).

Why use a headphone amplifier? Well, the K 701s are not very difficult to handle, but the power of the average flea laptop (or even the ¼ "connector in most separates) tends to emphasize that initial edginess that I am in my first experience with the 701s much in the way we listen to a pair of speakers near a power amplifier accentuated deficiencies. The 701s are not only in this sense, the most ambitious designs of great use headphones, a well-designed headphone amplifier. Fortunately, I had a lot of these amps in the house with several generations of reach, Iceland Channel Audio VHP-1, and Ray Samuels Audio SR-71 Hornet. They left the K 701s' tonal balance and authority to flowers.

Say the word I
When I first got involved with the AKG K 701s, I have just to confirm my first impression of an aggressive self-confidence I do not cotton. By Tyll Hertsens Declaration, which are carried out, I have an unused room, connected to a Channel Islands Audio VHP-1 and Musical Fidelity X-RayV3 CD set to repeat. I do not listen to a few hundred hours, so no, I was crushed.

About a week later, I noticed in the AKG K-701s and that edginess was gone, replaced by the natural balance of sound with a high gloss and a strong final ridiculously bad. What are the causes of this change? Some people speculate that the diaphragm is more flexible, with the game, or a mechanism in the engine in. I do not claim to know what happened, only a few one hundred hours playing vigorously converted K 701s.

Audio-Technica AD700 Headphones Review

Many people underestimate the differences between open and closed headphones, the combination of the two models in a series as a sound similar. Audio-Technica has an open or closed variant of each model (the A900 and AD900), and they have a trademark sound throughout the range, often other elements do not seem more different.

Take, for example, the AD700. Many people simply look at the model and slot somewhere between the A500 and the A900 in terms of sound quality - big mistake! The AD700 is much lighter sound that really gives you a completely different sound signature.

We would like to describe as the classic AD700 headphones in this price class, but also wonderful for jazz, acoustic guitar and piano pieces. This is an open model, meaning that small, tends to be the most prosperous and powerful (in a closed model, there is no place for ECHO) to heavy metal and dance floors, fans will most likely lose strength. That is, the bass is incredibly fast and strong for this model - a case of quality over quantity - so it really depends on how you like the music sounds.

The top half and high tones are the real strengths of this model. The AD700 is one of the finest detail and the separation without spending hundreds of dollars more. Acts of the flow from one to another with a nice layer effect brings the sound of a great power (for example, orchestra). Some authors are too bright for their taste, but loved the sound.

The midrange is rich and a little hot with a nice, soft texture. Our acoustic guitar rock songs such as Patience by Guns and Roses sounded simply incredible.

The other real strength of this model is sound. To put it simply, we have not heard what as immersive as the AD700. The power and the position of the various instruments of the mind is incredible, better than almost anything we have seen in this price class (including the A900). Sound is a prerequisite for a proper listening experience. If you close your eyes and see the sound in a particular place is a long way towards the creation of the tingling spine, when we strive to listen to your favorite songs. The massive sound is also perfect for the position of audio. We found that in terms of strengthening the capitalization is not much better for games, AD700s.

The Audio-Technica AD700 Sport Classic design that has so well with this series. Large arteries and upholstered with velvet, with two wings, the filling in the rest of the top of the head. Which covers an area of two strips of plastic, quite fragile, but I'm strongly. All Audio-Technica headphones are very comfortable, and this model is no exception. How to open headphones, the cups of the AD700 only against the rest of the ear, instead, making it easier to hear, even during meetings of up to six hours. They are quite large, the streets around them wins rare look confused.

Planning for the inevitable problem of leakage of sound. The AD700s not isolate, but it is predictable. If you plan to use them in an office to invest in some earplugs for the people in your environment.

Shure SE102 Headphones review

Finally Shure headphones for the budget goes to "aspiring music - people like you and me who are fed poor quality cans, which together with most MP3 players. This is particularly true for all generations of iPod, Apple, despite claims in the contrary. These white earphones? Yech!

The SE102s then do whatever Shure earphones. What it is, until the end of the lamp, the unit Micro speaker units and a range of Sound Isolating sleeves with the aim of reducing 90 percent of ambient noise.

If SE102s comes with four pairs of soft flexible sleeves, in small, medium and large for different sizes of ears.

Like all the other Shure earphones, the SE102s are designed so that in fact there is a headset cable into the top of the ear and on his MP3 player or the included 1m extension cable.

It takes a while, "accustomed to - and can be a pain if you wear glasses - but the result is an ambience that allows you to download your ears sounds really expect from the cans.

Just as the sound?
One of the benefits of Shure obvious method of cutting the environment is that it is not necessary to their music as loud as with conventional earphones or cans. This should help to limit the problems caused by excessive noise (such as the EU Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks warned this week), but also means that their attention is on the performance of SE102.

To be honest, the SE102s are not so bad. Fire some high bitrate AAC tracks from your iPod to do a job SE102s and credible transmission of sound - voice is clear and understandable, guitar tone, the drums sound, the plates must be "king".

Compared to a more expensive pair of Shure SE310s however, showed that some shortcomings. The SE102s simply do not sound richer and more detailed SE310s (which costs more than three times the price of 180 pounds).
You also have to crank the volume a notch to get the same volume SE102s face SE310 - something that is probably due to the fact that the absence of a tuned bass port SE102.

The results arevery listeners with virtually all types of music - even if the SE102 is slightly rough edge could be guaranteed not to hear. Bass heads happy by SE102s ability to reach a weight of up to 22Hz.

 
The other obvious Downer, the local unit. E 'significantly more bulky than other models of Shure SE series, what it might be difficult for long periods.

Given the undisputed quality and high prices, we are pleased Shure SE102s qualified thumbs up

Atomic Floyd headphones Review

It is no secret that the label of the white headphones with most MP3 players are almost always surprising, terrible. It is worth about 10p and the highest quality of sound, music as an absolute ass.

Fortunately, there are many manufacturers, the high-quality headphones or earphones you can buy cheap replacement for free plasticky.

problem is that if the update can be very expensive for a pair of quality headphones. And if you want more than a hundred pounds, you should make sure you get your money.

Atomic Floyd Show - a new company, based on the best headset on the products at affordable prices.

Impressive quality of construction
The first thing you have HiDefDrum headphones is that the build quality is absolutely amazing. They are made of a heat treatment of steel, titanium, and contain 24 Carot Gold audio connectors. They feel as if I could get them into a tank and had been out of the ground without a scratch.

As a result, small earphones are reassuringly heavy. But that sound as good as they look and feel? The answer is a clear, booming, full of yes.

The secret of a good quality, claims Atomic Floyd, provides in its material. A heat treatment of steel is to harden conventional density, which remains constant as the resonance of sound. The "true tone" sound in the ear chamber was equipped with a material that is called "Acoustic Steel.

E 'primarily steel injection was treated for 10 hours at 1300 ° C. This gives more strength to the metal, the thin walls, which in turn optimizes the volume of the room acoustics to create a great sound.

It may seem like a load of Mumbo-jumbo, but despite the silly name, the headphones sound HiDefDrum Acoustic Steel really absolutely fantastic.

Good audio performance
Extremely high tones sound fresh, while the smooth, chocolatey small ears with rich creams and accurate mid-and low-end.

The functions do not end here, o. These headphones are for use with the Apple iPhone and MP3 player, iPod, Skype and Blackberry RIM products.

A button on the cable works like a remote control to pause and play the music (this works only with certain products), and if you receive a call, you can use the microphone area, the claim without the headphones.

As we have already discussed, the price of these products can be a little "from a point of encounter. Shure earphone line, for example, prices range from around 50 pounds all the way up to 300 pounds.

The dilemma is that the cheaper products, while the sound is much more than the package still far from crappy headphones as good as the high-end. And therefore it is necessary to strike a balance between quality and price.

 
The Atomic HiDefDrum Floyd headphones - and the rest of this Atomico Floyd - the balance.

You can test together for 85 pounds - and the remarkable value of a product that offers exceptional quality and great sound and iPhone compatibility.

Audio-Technica ATH-CK10 Headphones Review

Audio-Technica has a long history with the headphones, and now offers a wide range of styles more. Among the in-ear models, the ATH-CK10 is the top dog.

Technical seems surprisingly modest - for example, a brochure called the frequency response up to 15kHz and exceptionally low power consumption, I think that it is not sufficient to meet again, or just mistakes.

The sensor uses Dual balanced armature drivers, 'Division of the frequency range of almost (but not exclusively) on two streets in a small house in front of all three sizes of rubber speaker. Impedance is higher than most in-ear phones, with less effort on the unit, but each with some 'sensitivity to the effective reduction of most applications.

Unfussy Headphones
We were pleased to learn that this model seems relatively unfussy headphones, but a few miles to redeem. After the optimum, were rewarded with a big, rich sound seems to be something less, are less acute that many bright headphones.

At first, you can set the tone does not seem to be in the details, but it really is true: This model is capable of a great amount of detail in the full frequency range. It is a good offense and the immediacy and the image is clear and not too "in the head."

We were particularly impressed by the dynamism, the great effort and at the same time, thin area offers live music always, but often the new recordings.
Listen for a longer period, is our admiration for this model only increases: E 'is probably not so easy, but worth persevering with.

Denon AH-C751 Headphones review

Another series, Topper, the Denon AH-C751 features a metal housing and is equipped with three dimensions of listener.

The cable comes from the side of the cylindrical part, and we had some difficulty finding the right angle in which phones in the ear, so Saturday leadership and security are not usually retreat.

Specifications are typical, with an impedance of 16 ohms, and power of 250mW, which is also slightly below the average of the sensitivity that we have seen that a sufficient head of each.

An unusually short cable is available, finished in a good place metal plug an extension cord is also, along with a nice hard case.

A converter is not always please all tastes, so it should be noted that this model has a different sound from a large number of others.

Awesome low
More immediately, the bassist, who is strong and full, so that, perhaps too much for some listeners, but we are sure that brings a smile on many faces. Treble is fairly lively, but not unpleasantly bright, while the medium in general, seems neutral.

 
If we have a slight concern about the sound, then, in terms of details, apparently a little 'behind the delay. It is not so easy to hear directly from a mixture of images and is less accurate, even if the comparison is that we have a very high level.
None is cheap gift C751 mobile phone is probably surprised by the amount of details to offer. The sound is very impressive. If the thought of the killers were not on the outside, there is great joy in this model.

Etymotic ER-4P Headphones review

Etymotic is one of the first companies in high-end set of headphones in your ears with a hearing on the merits in scientific research. For many, the mark is the criterion for performance, so it was good, the Etymotic ER-4P model here. 

The range is vast and it is not what it is not always obvious benefits of each model, however, this is a clear target market for portable music. The sensitivity is high and production has a slightly lower than other ER-4-variants, in what could be the "mass market" musical tastes.

Sector Protection
Four species are in the headset, with the replacement of the filters. Etymotic One of the loans is very high for the isolation of noise outside and make him a surprising 42dB - on the same ball park industrial hearing! This provides for listening in noisy environments and also ensures that music does not come from virtually harass others.

One feature that we are constantly met Etymotic models is that they are incredibly fussy about positioning in the ear. It takes much practice and testing of this law, and until one makes the sound is frankly awful, all the resources and with a little 'high detail. Once the adjustment has been made, however, everything changes radically, so persevere!

You can say anything about any other headphone that this "higher in the context of the model is not very rich in low, even compared with the headphones, which indicate that there is only a shadow lifted.

There is also a slight increase in the region, but most notable on the ER-4P is the extraordinary amount of detail to draw conclusions about the recordings. E 'of analysis, to the extent that some find almost overwhelming and tell you everything that concerns the quality of the source - Bad MP3 files are revealed in all its dubious glory.

Jays s-JAYS SIREN Armature Headphones Review

You can get a lot of money here. And the headphones, there are a lot of accessories and extras, such as adapters, filters and bag of silicon.

Of course, with the accessories for the little ones, if the headphones are not very good, but fortunately, the s-JAYS earphones SIREN still very good. They offer a warm and natural sound, with good performances of all types, and an important task to eliminate background noise.

It can not come down enough, but for everyone else, are ideal.

Jays c-JAYS Headphones Review

With stereo headphones have a folding pocket, airplane adapter, 6.3 mm plug, extension cable, stereo splitter and three types of foam pads.

 

These effects on the mix of pills, tablets with the little ones, that most of the heavy and the medium that has a very rounded performance. However, the biggest starter pounds too low.

With portable readers in mind and offers a great sound, but which produce surplus for all around you. Better not take the bus ...