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them","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"foreign they make headphones we all know that but did you know they also make iems you probably did well maybe you did maybe you didn't but they don't just make the fancy wireless earbuds that you put in your layers and connect to your little phone with the Bluetooth but they also make some Primo bona fide audiophile grade earbuds now Sennheiser has not really received a ton of a claim for their earbuds in the past but with the recent revisions and additions to their new lineup their ie600s have been very very very well received and we're hoping to see success with the ie200s you have the ie600s which I believe are around a thousand dollars I'm going to check that right now and you have the ie900s which are like two thousand dollars but these cost about a fifth of the price of those IE 600s but are they going to be one-fifth as good or are they gonna blow me away well there's only one way to find out now what's a little surprising to me is that Sennheiser they have the brand name recognition to charge a hefty premium for a lot of their audio products because people will buy them just by trusting the brand name alone but you're smarter than that you're here to find out if they're actually worth your time and I'm ready to go on that Journey with you so let's take a look at the outside of the box one thing Sennheiser doesn't uh seems to skin found on is a premium packaging maybe the ie600s were far more fancy but this is just a pretty cheap very thin cardboard box nothing wrong with that I mean it's just headphones you're gonna you're gonna take them out of the box and you're gonna throw away the box so who really cares looking at the Box a nice picture on the front featuring The iems themselves a new world of High Fidelity sound uh yeah okay Sennheiser technical data we have a six Hertz to 20 kilohertz response the SPL is a 119 DB with an impedance of 18 ohms these should be relatively easy to drive with the high impedance being cut out by the very high sensitivity and total harmonic Distortion is less than .08 percent so far below the threshold of human hearing when it comes to detecting Distortion all really good let's let's take them out and take a look um I opened these already but the only difference is that they were wrapped in this a lot nicer than they were when they just came out now but uh don't worry about it in here we have our headphones and in here we got ear tips our little pouch that's a a very little pouch oh boy all right we got some reading material and a tasty scrumptious morsel multiple different types of ear tips now the ear tips with these are kind of interesting now these ear tips are a little different than usual because they contain a filter in them so in each of these earbuds it's pretty tough to see there's like foam on the inside of these I'm gonna take it out of the big ones there's this little piece of foam so the role of these filters are twofold one is that they actually do affect the sound and two they prevent stuff from getting into the driver there is probably going to be on the headphones there will probably be another like layer to prevent things from touching the driver itself another filter on the inside of the earbud also the inside of these kind of have a harder plastic almost they're not or a more structured rubber or more structured silicone it's very tough to get the angle on the inside you can see that there's like two different lines so that little lip in there allows for their patent pending dual tuning system where basically it allows you to put an ear tip on at two different positions so here we'll take the wires off so here you have the driver just by itself and then you come on like that where there's this significant gap between the so here you can see there's a significant gap between the edge of the actual uh ear tip and the driver body that allows for what they call dual tuning and then if you press it in all the way it's added second tuning profile or I guess or maybe it's normal tuning profile I'm skeptical to say the least is it really a feature putting your ear tips on wrong like that's kind of what they did is that they said oh well sometimes you have you ever like not put your ear tips on all the way on your drivers and then you know so they sound different and they're like yeah that's that's a feature baby it's just a weird feature but let's talk about the drivers let's talk about the iems themselves we're gonna put some stuff away put where it came from also help me okay we're gonna toss them in our little in our little I am actually going to take this opportunity to swap out to the smaller ear tips since I believe they fit me best I found the small foam ones to be the most comfortable but obviously it's all very personalized to you right here we have the gold-plated mmcx connector and in each earbud you have a single seven millimeter Dynamic driver so one driver has to handle everything from their quoted six Hertz to 20 000 Hertz and that is not always an easy task most speakers that you see have two drivers in them they have a dynamic driver he's referred to as a woofer and then they have something called a tweeter which is basically a second driver meant to handle very high frequencies you don't need those two drivers when it comes to headphones because you don't have to push nearly as much air that's where bigger speakers come in right if you need to push a lot of air at a low frequency it takes a lot of energy which is why subwoofers tend to have really really big drivers but you don't need to and with headphones because they're pushing such a small amount of air you can get by with just one drive many companies will use multi-driver setups with balanced armatures or just other Dynamic drivers but that tends to introduce complexity and cost now you can find multi-driver setups at the price point that these are at but it's either here nor there a well-tuned single driver can form just as well as any multi-driver setup you could imagine we haven't even talked about the cable oh boy the cable we have a braided cable that honestly sucks like it's honestly an insult but you're paying a decent amount for these headphones and look at this this is the Cinch so this it's like the cheapest piece of like plastic tubing it's like they cut like some sort of straw like that's that's really all you give I've seen better cables on 20 headphones I don't mind this ear hook mechanism I think it's good now the strain relief on the bottom of the cable is pretty good same with up here maybe it's a little lacking like I would worry about this connection between the ear hook and the rest of the cable that's a little flimsy um but the mmcx connectors do just fine in holding the earbuds in place this is supposed to be the left earbud now I like mmcx connectors I don't really care for two pin connectors because they don't allow for the rotation of the earbud like an mmcx connector does and there's like four different types of two pins that are like slightly further apart than one another's and it makes shopping for spare cables kind of annoying mmcx every spare cable kind of works together except for Sennheiser because what does Sennheiser do they add this extra little lip it's on both of them they add this extra little lip there's a little so there's the connector and then there's a little cutout and then there's the rest of the thing and that little cutout allows them to put this little cuff see how there's that depth between that and the connector it allows for them to put that in which makes it so that your mmcx cable that you might already own is not compatible you have to buy the Sennheiser cable and do you know how much the improved Sennheiser cable costs it costs like 99 Euro the better Sennheiser cable that's like the price of this thing that's like a whole other thing and the worst part is this Cable's noisiest it's in your ears and everything that touches it goes directly into your ears you're wearing a zipper these are unlistenable because of it it's an like it's an absolute travesty but listen if these sound pristine I could always buy a new cable right so how do they sound well they sound like a great deal from our sponsor thanks to Newegg for sponsoring this video looking for the latest technology to upgrade your gaming rig home office or entertainment setup look no further than Newegg as one of the largest online retailers of computer hardware software and electronics Newegg has everything you need to take your Digital Life to the next level they offer competitive prices fast and reliable shipping 30-day hassle-free returns and excellent customer service to ensure that you have the best shopping experience possible so whether you're a tech Enthusiast gamer or just looking for the latest gadgets Newegg is the go-to destination for all your Tech needs check out Newegg LMG.gg Newegg today I'm going to be taking a listen on my Theo audio player it's a very nice high quality deck very powerful too can drive pretty much anything it's a it's significantly better than the Sony Walkman that we covered on this channel um well I don't know maybe not an audio quality but in terms of it actually being able to drive headphones it's substantially better sennheiser's whole idea behind this dual tuning thing is that the second tuning mode will provide you with a more critical listening experience so sometimes if you're an instrumentalist on stage you might want to be able to hear some of the higher notes to make sure that you're playing correctly it doesn't need to really sound nice for you it needs to sound nice for the audience but you need to know exactly what you're trying to what you're playing well Sennheiser is right it does change the sound it is a different tuning but that tuning sounds like garbage do you want your bass to sound anemic do you want your highs to be piercing and brittle do you want exclusively detail and no oomph well that's the tuning for you but when you push him in all the way they sound so goddamn good incredible like there's a nice Rumble to the sub bass that it's not totally overwhelming it doesn't carry over or blur the mids when we move up into the base it's detailed it's very detailed but not in a terribly fatiguing way some mixes on some songs I found it to be a little much especially on very sibilant sounds like those s's and T's coming from vocalists who may be over enunciate or on some metal tracks with some poorly mixed double kicks things can sound a little wonky on these but from my experience that's a failure of the recordings that I'm testing out rather than a failure of the headphones these headphones don't add a ton of color these don't really have like a signature sound like they don't go like oh yeah you know that sounds like like focal has a nice tradition of laid back highs these don't have that these are great for clinical listening they're also fun like that sub bass Rumble is great I could see some people being a little disappointed by the lack of mid base where things don't feel quite as Lively or boomy but they never feel dead they always feel alive and thumping and they sound great especially at the price so what does the machine say well looking at our frequency response graph we can see that the ie200s the blue line line up quite nicely with our Target curve we can see a Ryzen the base we can see it following very nice through the mids a little bit of a dip in the 500 Hertz range but I never really found it perceptible maybe on occasion some lower vocalists felt a little recessed but not really it does get a little bit higher in the upper mids where at the 1 000 Hertz range we start to see it deviate and go a little bit above the curve things can get a little shouty in that region I never noticed it on these headphones again I think they sound great what I'm kind of surprised by is I've always found our Target to not be super clinical and relatively laid back and the only Spike I'm really seeing above our Target is at the 14 kilohertz region which is like really at the edge of my hearing I can only hear it around the 16 16 000 Hertz is where my hearing stops and when you're really up in these really hide sounds it's hard to control it we tried to get the measurements in the Dual tuned position but we couldn't see this in our testing apparatus without pushing in the uh the ear tip all the way so you'll have to take my word that it sounds like ass now at 150 what you are getting is honestly just incredible sound if you're somebody who wants to dip their toes into the world of um audio and want to understand what people mean when they say like that neutral sound or critical listening headphones these are a great place to start they're not going to be off-putting they're very welcoming they're very easy to drive and they sound amazing but they come with the cable that's worth less than nothing so if you're somebody who doesn't want to go with like you want to go with a established brand rather than a chai Phi option chify meaning Chinese High Fidelity these are really really great this is really really bad if you like this video why don't you check out Linus's unboxing of their older brother the ie600s he loved them so much he made me search for them for two hours because he lost them"}