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minicio reached out to me about unboxing the nines I was a little bit skeptical
because they looked to me at first glance like fashion earphones which I
really do just try to avoid talking about altogether because if you don't
have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all so I replied to them and
I basically went look if they don't sound good I'm going to just tear them
apart I'm just going to give them a terrible terrible unboxing and overview
and I'm going to say that they sound bad and they went no no no they sound really
good and for $170 and headphones that are like shaped
like bullets that fit in your ears I was like okay well they're either all show
and noo or they legitimately sound good and they just have like a really cool
sort of fashion sense so without further ad
this is my unboxing of the misho 99's SLV they are titanium coated they are
constructed out of solid copper okay
they have three different sizes of what they call Hol tips so those are the
Silicon caps silicone not silicon silicone caps that go on top of them to
fit in your ears and they really do look like the housings of 9mm rounds uh
sticking out of your ears which is extremely cool they're available in a variety of colors which you can check
out on their website and I mean okay okay so here there's a couple things so
because they're constructed from copper they are quite heavy so they actually
come with two ear clips that look at little little something like that you've also got a little clip for the wire
that's included in their nice little carry bag which is actually quite
stylish got a nice little orange accent in there and then there's another pouch
for putting presumably the actual headphones themselves and it closes magnetically I like that good design oh
look at that a loop on it as well all right okay I'm down for that we've got a
munish card that makes you feel premium as well as a manual warranty they have a
2-year warranty next up we've got I yes
this is it the earphones themselves so
they are made for iPod made for iPad and
iPhone which means that the inline controls here which are able to control
voice as well as uh volume up and down
and track skipping by clicking multiple times that's only going to work on iOS
devices overall the construction of them feels very solid but this is what you'd
expect from sort of fashion headphones as well 24 karat gold plating on the
connector which will only matter if you unplug and plug them in like a billion times nice knurled finish on this
connector right here though like that lots of grip on it and then their nice
little branding there they've got a Kevlar reinforced braided cable which is
only important if you have cats that tend to chew up your earphones which
some of us do so I'm not even I'm not even going to make fun of them for that
it's like yeah we put kevlar in it yeah good that's awesome thank you for that
and then finally wow those really do have some heft to them finally the uh
earphones themselves when we pull off their hollow point silicone tip I love
that branding we find the 9mm Rare Earth
neodimium magnet drivers it's something to bear in mind about these headphones
is even though they have that made for iPod branding they are fairly High
impedance so these are 32 ohm impedance earphones which when you consider that
something like a Sennheiser momentum on ears are running at 18 ohms of impedance
you kind of go oh wow what's going on here so you may want to look into
something like a portable headphone amplifier or you may find that they
sound great to you out of the box one of the advantages of higher impedance
headphones is that they can help with base rollof as well as rolloff on the
higher end giving you a flatter more well a more flat
sounding sound for lack of a better way
of putting that so without further Ado we're going to have to listen to these
and let you guys know what we think
so now that Brandon and I have had a chance to spend some time really playing
around with these I have a few things to point out so number one is I was
terrified when I looked at the back of the package and I was like oh no they
deliver unmatched sound Purity okay that sounds okay so far tight thundering
Distortion free base okay when the first thing they talk about is the base that's
that's scary because a lot of the time that means yeah we couldn't figure out
how to optimize the drivers and how to optimize the output so we're just going
to be like yeah it's got lots of bass and it's loud and put big drivers on it
um that that is not that is not a good audio experience but then they kind of
go Crystal Clear mids soothing smooth highs accurate and enveloping sound that
is uniquely municio and they're actually
right so the first thing I noticed about them is that even though they look like
fashion earphones and even though they are branded like fashion earphones
they're like bullets and stuff um the second I pluged them in into my HTC1 so
I'm using Apollo now which dramatically improves the sound output compared to
even power ramp which has a great reputation Apollo is much better anyway
I'm using Apollo now and I was like oh well they have a very flat sounding the
sound signature they they don't have like this pumped up base that you get so
often with headphones and earphones these days so I kind of went oh well I
wonder if they're even capable of really pumping out the base so then I fired up
power ramp which I'm really not that of a fan of anymore but it does have a
built-in EQ and lo and behold really
Punchy tight base I'm impressed I'm really impressed if I had one complaint
about them um it well okay if I had like I I'll list all my complaints about them
because I do have a few complaints number one is that these ear Clips are not really very useful for me they don't
even sit on my ear once you put the uh once you put the earphone into it and
they're made out of a hard plastic so I really just didn't find them that useful
but the good news is in spite of their weight I really didn't have trouble keeping them in with the smallest tips
and they come with three different sizes of tips my next complaint is that there
is a little bit of cets um that is at the very high end when high frequency
sounds can be a little bit harsh sounding to your ears the way that you
can compensate for that though if you do have a software EQ in your media player
is that you can take the very very high frequency and turn it down a little bit
with that said pretty much anything under several hundreds of dollars you're
going to experience a noticeable amount of that so it's just a matter of your
tolerance level and it was really only detectable for me at very high volume
levels speaking of volume levels I was able to drive these up to higher than
comfortable I didn't actually make it to the maximum volume on my HTC1 so I
wouldn't worry too much about the 32 ohm impedance unless you have extremely weak
output on your phone or MP3 player or otherwise and then the last thing that I
wanted to talk about is the noise isolation they don't have the best noise
isolation ever but it's weird because you end up in sort of the situation
where I can put these in and if I'm not listening to anything I can I can hear
myself quite clearly I can hear my surroundings very clearly uh Brandon was
able to hear the embarrassing music I was listening to very clearly but when
I'm listening to them they have a more closed sound to them I don't know if
it's the metal construction or if it's something else about the engineering of
these earphones but the sound signature sounds more closed but they are actually
not very noise isolating compared to the ones that I use more regularly which are
the steel series flux in your Pros where I'm using comp fly tip so maybe it's not
really an Apples to Apples comparison and Brandon's frame of reference is what
what are those again um Monster Turbine PR Monster Turbine Pro so we're talking
earbuds that retail for like $400 as
opposed to these ones with $170 price points so I think at the end of it all
the conclusion that we were both able to agree on is for $170 if you want
something that sounds good and it doesn't look like garbage uh you know
what not a bad bet so Color Me surprised
and impressed am municio 9s are not just fashion earphones good job guys guys
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