Skullcandy (Product Out Of Date, Newer Version Available) INK'D Earbuds (Black)
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: SkullcandyModel: S2INBT-FZ
Color: Black
Product features:
- 11 mm Speaker
- Frequency Range is 20-20K Hz
- Cable length 1.3 M
- Plug type 3.5mm gold plated
- Max Input is 100 mW
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Customer Review: Great for the Price
Summary: 5 Stars
For $10 at fye, a great replacement for my dead Sony EX71s.
IMO, these will get you everything you can get out of compressed sound on an iPod. Garbage in, garbage out -- but good enough for me. I listen to dance mixes while running and to books /lectures. Contrary to other reviews about a lack of bass, I found these had ample but not excessive bass and were clear through the rest of the range. Perhaps there is a lot of variation in buds these cheap; perhaps I'm getting a better seal with my ears (make sure you insert the rubber tip entirely into your ear canal).
I have three minor complaints, none significant enough to dock a star from a $10 pair of buds.
1) The silicone rubber tips can make squeaky noises when the ear bud moves. This is the folded silicone sticking to itself. This seldom happens unless the wire gets tugged. The black rubber tips on my Sony's never had this issue. I may swap them out.
2) These have a symmetric "Y-split" cable that hangs in front, i.e. your standard headphone layout. I prefer the asymmetric "J-split" design (left is shorter than right) cable design on the Sony and other ear buds. There are two reasons why the asymmetric design is superior when using in-ear buds. For one thing, you can instantly tell which is left (the short cable) -- even in the dark. With the Ink'd buds, you can't even tell left from right in the daytime as there are no L-R markings.
A 2nd reason to favor asymmetric cables is how earbuds transmit noise to you ears every time something rubs against the cables. All earbuds do this, but the noise can be minimized by soaking up the vibration in the cable. With asymmetric cables, the right bud drapes across the back of the neck with asymmetric cables, causing the rest of the wire to naturally drape across the body. Your body then soaks up most of the vibration, leading to cleaner sound. When the wire hangs freely in the front, vibrations transmitt straight to the ears. Every time my Ink'd buds rub against my lapel, I hear the drum-like noise. Sitting, it's fine; running, it's like an extra off-tempo drumbeat. The workaround is to wrap the wire from the Ink'd bud up and over the ear. That way, the outer ear soaks up the vibration instead of transmitting it to your eardrum. Asymmetric wires were weird at first, but for in-ear buds, it's almost a necessity IMO.
Also, because the asymmetric design drapes over the body, your wires get tangled less often. Granted, some people prefer the standard Y-split, hang-in-front design, but give it a try. If not, try over-the-ear trick helps. Also, attaching a clip to the wire and fastening it to your shirt also works pretty well. I snagged a clip off some old cellphone headset.
Oh, another advantage of the J-split is that when you take your buds out (or have them pulled out), they hang conveniently around your neck. With the Y-split, but buds fall to the floor (especially if you don't wrap up that long wire - see #3).
3) The wires are loooong, at least for how people typically use earbuds. For many people, that's not a downside, but I have to wrap the wire around the back of my iPod case several times to take up the slack. It would have been nice to include some kind of cable management, like a light piece of plastic to wrap the wire like on some of the V-Modas or use a short built-in cable plus an extension like with the Sony Fontopias. Again, not a significant issue for $10 buds.
All-in-all, these are 5 stars for a $10 set of buds. I'd say they're even a good buy for $20. Anything more than that and I'd start looking for something else, like maybe the Create EP-630s or the Sennheiser CX-300s (based on the reviews I've read).
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