WEBVTT

00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:12.360
the fractal designed toine R4 case gets featured on the wow build logs of the

00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:17.320
week section more than any other case click now to learn more about it so when

00:00:14.799 --> 00:00:22.439
minicio reached out to me about unboxing the nines I was a little bit skeptical

00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:27.240
because they looked to me at first glance like fashion earphones which I

00:00:25.400 --> 00:00:30.800
really do just try to avoid talking about altogether because if you don't

00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:34.079
have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all so I replied to them and

00:00:32.559 --> 00:00:37.680
I basically went look if they don't sound good I'm going to just tear them

00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:42.039
apart I'm just going to give them a terrible terrible unboxing and overview

00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:45.600
and I'm going to say that they sound bad and they went no no no they sound really

00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:50.920
good and for $170 and headphones that are like shaped

00:00:48.440 --> 00:00:55.840
like bullets that fit in your ears I was like okay well they're either all show

00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:59.719
and noo or they legitimately sound good and they just have like a really cool

00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:03.719
sort of fashion sense so without further ad

00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:11.439
this is my unboxing of the misho 99's SLV they are titanium coated they are

00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:13.799
constructed out of solid copper okay

00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:19.280
they have three different sizes of what they call Hol tips so those are the

00:01:16.759 --> 00:01:23.240
Silicon caps silicone not silicon silicone caps that go on top of them to

00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:27.439
fit in your ears and they really do look like the housings of 9mm rounds uh

00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:32.920
sticking out of your ears which is extremely cool they're available in a variety of colors which you can check

00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:35.720
out on their website and I mean okay okay so here there's a couple things so

00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:39.399
because they're constructed from copper they are quite heavy so they actually

00:01:37.720 --> 00:01:43.720
come with two ear clips that look at little little something like that you've also got a little clip for the wire

00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:46.840
that's included in their nice little carry bag which is actually quite

00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:50.320
stylish got a nice little orange accent in there and then there's another pouch

00:01:48.759 --> 00:01:55.759
for putting presumably the actual headphones themselves and it closes magnetically I like that good design oh

00:01:53.880 --> 00:02:00.880
look at that a loop on it as well all right okay I'm down for that we've got a

00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:05.360
munish card that makes you feel premium as well as a manual warranty they have a

00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:08.800
2-year warranty next up we've got I yes

00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:11.920
this is it the earphones themselves so

00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:13.720
they are made for iPod made for iPad and

00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:18.519
iPhone which means that the inline controls here which are able to control

00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:20.360
voice as well as uh volume up and down

00:02:18.519 --> 00:02:24.720
and track skipping by clicking multiple times that's only going to work on iOS

00:02:22.160 --> 00:02:29.400
devices overall the construction of them feels very solid but this is what you'd

00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:32.720
expect from sort of fashion headphones as well 24 karat gold plating on the

00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:38.360
connector which will only matter if you unplug and plug them in like a billion times nice knurled finish on this

00:02:36.519 --> 00:02:41.800
connector right here though like that lots of grip on it and then their nice

00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:46.519
little branding there they've got a Kevlar reinforced braided cable which is

00:02:44.760 --> 00:02:53.000
only important if you have cats that tend to chew up your earphones which

00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:56.080
some of us do so I'm not even I'm not even going to make fun of them for that

00:02:54.360 --> 00:03:00.480
it's like yeah we put kevlar in it yeah good that's awesome thank you for that

00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:05.560
and then finally wow those really do have some heft to them finally the uh

00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:12.159
earphones themselves when we pull off their hollow point silicone tip I love

00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:14.920
that branding we find the 9mm Rare Earth

00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:18.519
neodimium magnet drivers it's something to bear in mind about these headphones

00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:24.080
is even though they have that made for iPod branding they are fairly High

00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:28.200
impedance so these are 32 ohm impedance earphones which when you consider that

00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:32.599
something like a Sennheiser momentum on ears are running at 18 ohms of impedance

00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:35.920
you kind of go oh wow what's going on here so you may want to look into

00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:39.640
something like a portable headphone amplifier or you may find that they

00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:42.760
sound great to you out of the box one of the advantages of higher impedance

00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:47.640
headphones is that they can help with base rollof as well as rolloff on the

00:03:45.480 --> 00:03:52.720
higher end giving you a flatter more well a more flat

00:03:49.519 --> 00:03:54.760
sounding sound for lack of a better way

00:03:52.720 --> 00:04:01.200
of putting that so without further Ado we're going to have to listen to these

00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:03.079
and let you guys know what we think

00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:07.159
so now that Brandon and I have had a chance to spend some time really playing

00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:11.599
around with these I have a few things to point out so number one is I was

00:04:09.640 --> 00:04:16.440
terrified when I looked at the back of the package and I was like oh no they

00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:21.680
deliver unmatched sound Purity okay that sounds okay so far tight thundering

00:04:19.479 --> 00:04:25.880
Distortion free base okay when the first thing they talk about is the base that's

00:04:23.840 --> 00:04:30.000
that's scary because a lot of the time that means yeah we couldn't figure out

00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:33.199
how to optimize the drivers and how to optimize the output so we're just going

00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:38.320
to be like yeah it's got lots of bass and it's loud and put big drivers on it

00:04:35.960 --> 00:04:42.840
um that that is not that is not a good audio experience but then they kind of

00:04:40.919 --> 00:04:47.720
go Crystal Clear mids soothing smooth highs accurate and enveloping sound that

00:04:44.520 --> 00:04:49.720
is uniquely municio and they're actually

00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:54.759
right so the first thing I noticed about them is that even though they look like

00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:58.560
fashion earphones and even though they are branded like fashion earphones

00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:04.400
they're like bullets and stuff um the second I pluged them in into my HTC1 so

00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:07.600
I'm using Apollo now which dramatically improves the sound output compared to

00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:13.080
even power ramp which has a great reputation Apollo is much better anyway

00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:18.000
I'm using Apollo now and I was like oh well they have a very flat sounding the

00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:21.639
sound signature they they don't have like this pumped up base that you get so

00:05:19.880 --> 00:05:25.840
often with headphones and earphones these days so I kind of went oh well I

00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:29.919
wonder if they're even capable of really pumping out the base so then I fired up

00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:35.560
power ramp which I'm really not that of a fan of anymore but it does have a

00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:38.240
built-in EQ and lo and behold really

00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:42.440
Punchy tight base I'm impressed I'm really impressed if I had one complaint

00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:45.160
about them um it well okay if I had like I I'll list all my complaints about them

00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:51.199
because I do have a few complaints number one is that these ear Clips are not really very useful for me they don't

00:05:48.400 --> 00:05:54.720
even sit on my ear once you put the uh once you put the earphone into it and

00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:57.520
they're made out of a hard plastic so I really just didn't find them that useful

00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:01.840
but the good news is in spite of their weight I really didn't have trouble keeping them in with the smallest tips

00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:07.000
and they come with three different sizes of tips my next complaint is that there

00:06:04.080 --> 00:06:10.440
is a little bit of cets um that is at the very high end when high frequency

00:06:09.039 --> 00:06:14.240
sounds can be a little bit harsh sounding to your ears the way that you

00:06:12.520 --> 00:06:18.440
can compensate for that though if you do have a software EQ in your media player

00:06:16.440 --> 00:06:23.240
is that you can take the very very high frequency and turn it down a little bit

00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:27.680
with that said pretty much anything under several hundreds of dollars you're

00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:31.720
going to experience a noticeable amount of that so it's just a matter of your

00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:35.520
tolerance level and it was really only detectable for me at very high volume

00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:40.120
levels speaking of volume levels I was able to drive these up to higher than

00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:44.240
comfortable I didn't actually make it to the maximum volume on my HTC1 so I

00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:48.240
wouldn't worry too much about the 32 ohm impedance unless you have extremely weak

00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:52.720
output on your phone or MP3 player or otherwise and then the last thing that I

00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:57.120
wanted to talk about is the noise isolation they don't have the best noise

00:06:54.960 --> 00:07:00.720
isolation ever but it's weird because you end up in sort of the situation

00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:03.919
where I can put these in and if I'm not listening to anything I can I can hear

00:07:02.479 --> 00:07:07.800
myself quite clearly I can hear my surroundings very clearly uh Brandon was

00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:11.680
able to hear the embarrassing music I was listening to very clearly but when

00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:16.080
I'm listening to them they have a more closed sound to them I don't know if

00:07:14.280 --> 00:07:20.160
it's the metal construction or if it's something else about the engineering of

00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:24.800
these earphones but the sound signature sounds more closed but they are actually

00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:28.639
not very noise isolating compared to the ones that I use more regularly which are

00:07:26.520 --> 00:07:32.960
the steel series flux in your Pros where I'm using comp fly tip so maybe it's not

00:07:30.840 --> 00:07:37.199
really an Apples to Apples comparison and Brandon's frame of reference is what

00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:43.160
what are those again um Monster Turbine PR Monster Turbine Pro so we're talking

00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:45.800
earbuds that retail for like $400 as

00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:49.599
opposed to these ones with $170 price points so I think at the end of it all

00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:54.520
the conclusion that we were both able to agree on is for $170 if you want

00:07:51.840 --> 00:08:01.080
something that sounds good and it doesn't look like garbage uh you know

00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:03.840
what not a bad bet so Color Me surprised

00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:08.199
and impressed am municio 9s are not just fashion earphones good job guys guys

00:08:06.919 --> 00:08:12.400
don't forget to subscribe to US tech tips more unboxings reviews and other computer videos like this video if you

00:08:10.840 --> 00:08:17.039
liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment if you're as surprised

00:08:14.599 --> 00:08:22.120
as me that earbuds shaped like bullets aren't total garbage and as always check

00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:26.960
out the L's Tech chips forum for great discussion about technology and all that

00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:26.960
cool stuff

00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:35.919
he