so my review of the sennheiser momentum in year started on what was either a
very promising or very ominous note you see when manufacturers with whom i have
a long-standing relationship simply drop something in the mail to me rather than
asking if i want to review it first it either indicates that it's junk that
they know no one will want but they have to send out a certain number of review
units and they figure once it's in my hands i kind of have to review it or it
indicates that they're certain it's going to blow my socks off so they want
to get it in the mail rather than wait for me to confirm that my socks are on
and ready to be blown off but which one is this
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the momentum in ears come with four sizes of ear tips i used the extra small
ones because the size of your ear canals obviously has nothing to do with other
things my wife can back me up on this and this super amazing carrying case
that i immediately discarded because any iem not rugged enough to be
coiled up and thrown in my pocket is not worth buying to me i mean the thing is
called momentum so if i can't keep it in my pants then i
guess that's just nature for you right my wife can back me up on this too
sorry what was i talking about right earphones so let's do the whole physical
overview thing shall we we'll start with the bottom i guess where we find a four
pole three and a half millimeter right angle jack attached to a one and a half
meter long oval elliptical cable thing that manages to
not be bulky but also be surprisingly tangle resistant for how light and thin
it is moving up we've got a tasteful plastic accent where the black cable
splits into a striking black and red color scheme that i think works really
well a strong wire management slider and then the inline microphone and remote
one of the biggest points of differentiation for this headset you see
most manufacturers sit on either the Android or apple side of the fence so
while the mic will work and volume control should work single pressing the
middle button to play and pause audio might work and double or triple pressing
for additional functionality probably won't if you don't have a compatible
device because everyone handles the signaling on the phone end a little bit
differently sennheiser is partially getting around this by maintaining two
completely separate models of this in-ear one for apple users and one for
samsung galaxy or Android users now this
solution isn't perfect and many Android phones including ed z2 and luke's moto x
still won't work with the galaxy version but my htc one m8 worked and brandon's
nexus 5 worked just fine they have a compatibility list on their site so
while it's not perfect at least it's a step in the right direction in kudos to
sennheiser for this now let's have a look at the in-ears
themselves while i don't consider if one earbud is slightly more
fashionable than the next one as a top priority when shopping for something
you're planning to wear outside of the house it can't be completely ignored
either and i think sennheiser has done a good job here their logo is green
engraved in a shiny multi-colored plastic end cap that's set into a black
strain relieving wire loop thing and the rest of the housing is this shiny red
plastic that might not go perfectly with my eye color but it's certainly
eye-catching the ear tips are installed on a metal nozzle that sennheiser and
i'm not sure if they're joking here calls a sound tunnel that sits at a 15
degree angle to the rest of the housing for theoretically improved comfort and
they are your run-of-the-mill silicone type with unfortunately no included
memory foam tips although comply lovers need not despair as they should be
compatible with aftermarket tips that work with the sennheiser ie8s now moving
into the actual use of the momentum in ears i think i should start with my
biggest gripe about these in ears they stay in my ears fine but i just didn't
find them that comfortable your mileage may vary but having used ieees for so
long i've gotten very accustomed to using my ears as cable strain relief and
i found that in spite of the lightweight cable having their anchor point sticking
so far out of my ears caused more pull than i'd like while i was wearing them
user report reports on comfort seem to fly directly in the face of my
experience though so it's possible that my ear shape simply doesn't work that
well with them when it comes to comfort
but the sound quality is a different story i did my listening with my usual
mix of top 40 garbage music on an iphone 6 and an xperia z2 and initially i have
to say i wasn't that impressed because i was comparing against my daily drivers
the ie80s and next to those with the base ports dialed to 4 like i've been
doing lately the bass is unexceptional and the mids lack strength but i
realized after having already started writing my notes for this review what a
stupid comparison that was because they cost a third as much as the ie80s so i
picked up these similarly affordable and
very very well regarded sure se215s
specifically to have a reasonable head to head get it contender for the
momentum in-ears and listening to those side by side gave me a completely new
appreciation for the sound of these earphones they do have a v-shaped sound
signature with more emphasis on the lows and highs but bass is well controlled
and doesn't overpower the slightly recessed mids meaning that vocalists
won't have that far away or tinny sound that you get with many beats generation
tuned audio products highs are clear and detailed without any of the fatiguing
harshness that i find so unappealing with headphones that have a lot of
sparkle in the highs and overall i guess i would just say compared to the shirts
they sound richer warmer and much more
fun the sub bass rumble that you get from a really nice bass guitar in the
background is powerful enough to make you really pay attention to it you can
actually hear it but it doesn't muddy up the rest of the track they are a
pleasure to listen to but like any hundred dollar product there
are trade-offs and where the shares come away as clear winners is in noise
isolation and comfort for me the first one i guess is justifiable if the idea
is to wear them well walking around on train tracks and not get hit by a train
that you don't hear coming but while the sure flexible wire over the air system
might be a little bit cumbersome to put on and might look a little bit doofy as
someone who doesn't need inline controls and likes his iem so comfortable he can
sleep in them without a special pillow the se215s hold a lot of appeal but the
missing piece of the puzzle here is long-term durability and one of our
moderators on the forum has shared a horror story with me about the not very
robust looking earphone connector failing multiple times within a few
months until his warranty expires and with my experience with removable iem
cables i don't find it terribly hard to believe so the conclusion is this solid
product worthy of the momentum name comfort was a weak point for me but i
seem to be in the minority here and gosh are they ever fun to listen to for a
hundred bucks speaking of fun yahoo's aviate launcher
is launching in canada and as someone who's never used a third-party launcher
using it was a pretty different experience for me some stuff like the
way it automatically categorizes your apps i was already able to do albeit
manually with folders but the swipe up quick dialer is fast and intuitive the
replacement app tray is much better to navigate than the ones in many Android
skins the way it prompts you when relevant events occur like asking if you
want to launch a music player when you plug in your headphones and app
suggestions on the different spaces make the Android experience
easier more than anything else especially for new users i mean i was
expecting it to just kind of be full of yahoo apps to install
but while some stuff like the news widget that sends you stories in the
morning and after work are can be powered by yahoo a lot of the rest of it
was just useful stuff that i hadn't thought of putting on my phone before so
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