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the fractal designed toine R4 case gets featured on the wow build logs of the

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week section more than any other case click now to learn more about it so when

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minicio reached out to me about unboxing the nines I was a little bit skeptical

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because they looked to me at first glance like fashion earphones which I

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really do just try to avoid talking about altogether because if you don't

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have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all so I replied to them and

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I basically went look if they don't sound good I'm going to just tear them

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apart I'm just going to give them a terrible terrible unboxing and overview

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and I'm going to say that they sound bad and they went no no no they sound really

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good and for $170 and headphones that are like shaped

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like bullets that fit in your ears I was like okay well they're either all show

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and noo or they legitimately sound good and they just have like a really cool

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sort of fashion sense so without further ad

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this is my unboxing of the misho 99's SLV they are titanium coated they are

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constructed out of solid copper okay

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they have three different sizes of what they call Hol tips so those are the

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Silicon caps silicone not silicon silicone caps that go on top of them to

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fit in your ears and they really do look like the housings of 9mm rounds uh

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sticking out of your ears which is extremely cool they're available in a variety of colors which you can check

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out on their website and I mean okay okay so here there's a couple things so

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because they're constructed from copper they are quite heavy so they actually

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come with two ear clips that look at little little something like that you've also got a little clip for the wire

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that's included in their nice little carry bag which is actually quite

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stylish got a nice little orange accent in there and then there's another pouch

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for putting presumably the actual headphones themselves and it closes magnetically I like that good design oh

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look at that a loop on it as well all right okay I'm down for that we've got a

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munish card that makes you feel premium as well as a manual warranty they have a

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2-year warranty next up we've got I yes

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this is it the earphones themselves so

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they are made for iPod made for iPad and

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iPhone which means that the inline controls here which are able to control

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voice as well as uh volume up and down

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and track skipping by clicking multiple times that's only going to work on iOS

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devices overall the construction of them feels very solid but this is what you'd

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expect from sort of fashion headphones as well 24 karat gold plating on the

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connector which will only matter if you unplug and plug them in like a billion times nice knurled finish on this

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connector right here though like that lots of grip on it and then their nice

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little branding there they've got a Kevlar reinforced braided cable which is

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only important if you have cats that tend to chew up your earphones which

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some of us do so I'm not even I'm not even going to make fun of them for that

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it's like yeah we put kevlar in it yeah good that's awesome thank you for that

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and then finally wow those really do have some heft to them finally the uh

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earphones themselves when we pull off their hollow point silicone tip I love

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that branding we find the 9mm Rare Earth

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neodimium magnet drivers it's something to bear in mind about these headphones

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is even though they have that made for iPod branding they are fairly High

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impedance so these are 32 ohm impedance earphones which when you consider that

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something like a Sennheiser momentum on ears are running at 18 ohms of impedance

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you kind of go oh wow what's going on here so you may want to look into

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something like a portable headphone amplifier or you may find that they

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sound great to you out of the box one of the advantages of higher impedance

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headphones is that they can help with base rollof as well as rolloff on the

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higher end giving you a flatter more well a more flat

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sounding sound for lack of a better way

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of putting that so without further Ado we're going to have to listen to these

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and let you guys know what we think

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so now that Brandon and I have had a chance to spend some time really playing

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around with these I have a few things to point out so number one is I was

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terrified when I looked at the back of the package and I was like oh no they

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deliver unmatched sound Purity okay that sounds okay so far tight thundering

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Distortion free base okay when the first thing they talk about is the base that's

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that's scary because a lot of the time that means yeah we couldn't figure out

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how to optimize the drivers and how to optimize the output so we're just going

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to be like yeah it's got lots of bass and it's loud and put big drivers on it

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um that that is not that is not a good audio experience but then they kind of

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go Crystal Clear mids soothing smooth highs accurate and enveloping sound that

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is uniquely municio and they're actually

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right so the first thing I noticed about them is that even though they look like

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fashion earphones and even though they are branded like fashion earphones

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they're like bullets and stuff um the second I pluged them in into my HTC1 so

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I'm using Apollo now which dramatically improves the sound output compared to

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even power ramp which has a great reputation Apollo is much better anyway

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I'm using Apollo now and I was like oh well they have a very flat sounding the

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sound signature they they don't have like this pumped up base that you get so

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often with headphones and earphones these days so I kind of went oh well I

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wonder if they're even capable of really pumping out the base so then I fired up

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power ramp which I'm really not that of a fan of anymore but it does have a

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built-in EQ and lo and behold really

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Punchy tight base I'm impressed I'm really impressed if I had one complaint

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about them um it well okay if I had like I I'll list all my complaints about them

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because I do have a few complaints number one is that these ear Clips are not really very useful for me they don't

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even sit on my ear once you put the uh once you put the earphone into it and

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they're made out of a hard plastic so I really just didn't find them that useful

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but the good news is in spite of their weight I really didn't have trouble keeping them in with the smallest tips

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and they come with three different sizes of tips my next complaint is that there

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is a little bit of cets um that is at the very high end when high frequency

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sounds can be a little bit harsh sounding to your ears the way that you

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can compensate for that though if you do have a software EQ in your media player

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is that you can take the very very high frequency and turn it down a little bit

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with that said pretty much anything under several hundreds of dollars you're

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going to experience a noticeable amount of that so it's just a matter of your

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tolerance level and it was really only detectable for me at very high volume

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levels speaking of volume levels I was able to drive these up to higher than

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comfortable I didn't actually make it to the maximum volume on my HTC1 so I

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wouldn't worry too much about the 32 ohm impedance unless you have extremely weak

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output on your phone or MP3 player or otherwise and then the last thing that I

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wanted to talk about is the noise isolation they don't have the best noise

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isolation ever but it's weird because you end up in sort of the situation

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where I can put these in and if I'm not listening to anything I can I can hear

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myself quite clearly I can hear my surroundings very clearly uh Brandon was

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able to hear the embarrassing music I was listening to very clearly but when

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I'm listening to them they have a more closed sound to them I don't know if

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it's the metal construction or if it's something else about the engineering of

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these earphones but the sound signature sounds more closed but they are actually

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not very noise isolating compared to the ones that I use more regularly which are

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the steel series flux in your Pros where I'm using comp fly tip so maybe it's not

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really an Apples to Apples comparison and Brandon's frame of reference is what

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what are those again um Monster Turbine PR Monster Turbine Pro so we're talking

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earbuds that retail for like $400 as

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opposed to these ones with $170 price points so I think at the end of it all

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the conclusion that we were both able to agree on is for $170 if you want

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something that sounds good and it doesn't look like garbage uh you know

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what not a bad bet so Color Me surprised

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and impressed am municio 9s are not just fashion earphones good job guys guys

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