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2014/05/24 20:23:55 (permalink)

New headphones review

 
Just picked up a pair of these:
 
Motorola S305
 

 
 
Here's the review: Mind blowing.
 
I don't get out much and I'm late to the blue tooth headphone party but I am amazed out how good a pair of $33- wireless headphones sounds these days.
 
I bought them for use when riding my bicycle in the woods. I didn't expect very much and my first impression is that they sound better than I could have imagined.
 
Crazy.
 
I just figured I would post about my enthusiasm so my golden ear buddies can have a laugh. :-)
 
 
 
 
post edited by mike_mccue - 2014/05/25 08:40:11


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    drewfx1
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    Re: New headphones review 2014/05/24 22:25:42 (permalink)
    Don't know if they're still being made, but I have this for my phone:
     

     
    Standard 1/8" headphone jack. 

     In order, then, to discover the limit of deepest tones, it is necessary not only to produce very violent agitations in the air but to give these the form of simple pendular vibrations. - Hermann von Helmholtz, predicting the role of the electric bassist in 1877.
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    Re: New headphones review 2014/05/25 07:16:46 (permalink)
    I'd been using a standard set of headphones with my phone and stuffing the cable under my jersey. It was sort of a pain and my phone's jack is really finicky. It seems to interpret a movement at the jack as an incoming phone call and it switches over to phone mode, so I have been thinking about bluetooth for a while. The only downside is my phone will not bluetooth it's FM radio reception so I can't use bluetooth listen to my favorite classical music station when I'm out in the woods. I can use that radio stations streaming app but I get out of G service fairly quickly when I get back on the trails.
     
    I think these headphones must have some of that digital voodoo stuff going on inside them. They sound "hyped" but in a real good way... much better than the feed I get thru the wire from my phone to some of the "name brand" headphones I have lying around the house.
     
    :-)


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    Strange characteristic observed 2014/05/25 13:58:48 (permalink)
    I just did my first ride with the head phones. I was out for about 3 hours listening to mp3s on my Droid continously.
     
    There were a few occasions when I was listening to material I have listened to countless times where the tuning seemed to drift. I am speculating that it may be a clock drift issue, but if it is it seems like it must be a massive amount of drift compared to the frequency resolution of the on-board clock.
     
    I found it interesting. Maybe they use a really cheap relatively low tech clock in $33- headphones? It was 92* out there; maybe it is a heat related issue? Maybe the issue is compounded by a cheap clock in my phone and my headphones?
     
    I've listened to the very same material on the very same phone with wired headphones and never noticed issues like this.
     
    Any thoughts?
     
     
    FWIW, I also heard occasional artifacts (rumble revealed by a built in bass boost, and very faint hi-mid resonant rings left over by what I imagine is some sort of dsp-EQ enhancement) which I assume has something to do with what I referred to above as "digital voodoo". I don't think they are imprinted in the mp3. I think the artifacts are showing up because of this specific headphone appliance.
     
    Neither of these issues were substantial enough to alter my perception of the overall quality of the listening experience, but my curiosity has been piqued.
     
    best regards,
    mike
    post edited by mike_mccue - 2014/05/25 14:59:41


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    Re: Strange characteristic observed 2014/05/25 14:58:13 (permalink)
    mike_mccue
    There were a few occasions when I was listening to material I have listened to countless times where the tuning seemed to drift. I am speculating that it may be a clock drift issue, but if it is it seems like it must be a massive amount of drift compared to the frequency resolution of the on-board clock.
     



     
    I haven't really studied Bluetooth at all so take this as it is, but my guess would be interference or whatnot was causing a buffer to run low before I'd suspect the clock.
     
     
    Or maybe you were just pedaling really, really, really, really fast and relativistic time dilation caused time to slow down for you. 

     In order, then, to discover the limit of deepest tones, it is necessary not only to produce very violent agitations in the air but to give these the form of simple pendular vibrations. - Hermann von Helmholtz, predicting the role of the electric bassist in 1877.
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    Re: Strange characteristic observed 2014/05/25 15:06:24 (permalink)
    Thanks for the idea Drew,
     
    I'm definitely not riding very fast. I feel lucky to just ride these days.
     
    I hadn't thought about a buffer issue being smoothed over by a time stretch. The effect was always one of slowing down rather than speeding up so you may be on to something.
     
    best regards,
    mike


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