Post by Rabbit on Feb 26, 2020 18:30:26 GMT
My Sony pads have disintegrated and I’m not sure what to replace them with. They’re quite an age now.
So I decided to just get something cheap for the time being to pair with my new Fiio player.
The Boltune is £45 so I wasn’t expecting too much, but actually, I got a nice surprise.
My expectations were that the direct sound and nc sound wouldn’t match. Very often, the timbre totally changes when you switch in electronics. I expected a very restricted FR via bluetooth. I also expected the NC to be too ferocious and wipe the huts out of the music.
Well, it sounds remarkably similar wired or bluetooth’d and the NC doesn’t affect the sound anything like I expected. In fact, when I first turned on the NC, I didn’t think it was working. My wife had the fan on in the oven so I turned the music off and listened with the switch going on and off. It knocked the fan on the head! So the NC works really well and almost invisibly on the sound of the music. It brings in a slight circuit noise hiss, but then again, so does the Sony at a lot more money! In any case, in noisy situations, you wouldn’t notice it and in quiet situations, you just switch it off. You get a very slight lift in bass with it off.
I expected a blown out bass but it isn’t. I also expected a rolled off treble. It’s softer than my better headphones but not badly so. More like a Senn laid back sound. It is rolled away in the treble, but at least the bass isn’t ‘all engulfing’ as it can be on cheaper bluetooth headphones, where they think fat bass equals ‘quality’.
If you push and pull the pads on your ears, the NC throws a bit of a wobbly while it tries to compensate for air pressure differences, but you get that a lot with NC headphones. It also happens if you shake your head vigorously, so no head banging with NC. Lovely soft pads so itdoes wobble if you shake your head.
It’s no way a high end sound, but these bluetoothed, nc headphones have really moved on a long way. This headphone is pretty impressive at £45 and it gives me freedom from wires with my Fiio x5 iii. While I know that the Fiio is a high res player so most is being lost in translation, this combo works for general hobbling around the house and for high quality, it’s still there with my decent headphones and a dedicated amp, or even wired straight into the Fiio. It drives the Senn hd650 and the Beyer DT1990 easily.
On bluetooth, it’s extremely loud through the Boltune.
I really think they’re a nice buy.
So I decided to just get something cheap for the time being to pair with my new Fiio player.
The Boltune is £45 so I wasn’t expecting too much, but actually, I got a nice surprise.
My expectations were that the direct sound and nc sound wouldn’t match. Very often, the timbre totally changes when you switch in electronics. I expected a very restricted FR via bluetooth. I also expected the NC to be too ferocious and wipe the huts out of the music.
Well, it sounds remarkably similar wired or bluetooth’d and the NC doesn’t affect the sound anything like I expected. In fact, when I first turned on the NC, I didn’t think it was working. My wife had the fan on in the oven so I turned the music off and listened with the switch going on and off. It knocked the fan on the head! So the NC works really well and almost invisibly on the sound of the music. It brings in a slight circuit noise hiss, but then again, so does the Sony at a lot more money! In any case, in noisy situations, you wouldn’t notice it and in quiet situations, you just switch it off. You get a very slight lift in bass with it off.
I expected a blown out bass but it isn’t. I also expected a rolled off treble. It’s softer than my better headphones but not badly so. More like a Senn laid back sound. It is rolled away in the treble, but at least the bass isn’t ‘all engulfing’ as it can be on cheaper bluetooth headphones, where they think fat bass equals ‘quality’.
If you push and pull the pads on your ears, the NC throws a bit of a wobbly while it tries to compensate for air pressure differences, but you get that a lot with NC headphones. It also happens if you shake your head vigorously, so no head banging with NC. Lovely soft pads so itdoes wobble if you shake your head.
It’s no way a high end sound, but these bluetoothed, nc headphones have really moved on a long way. This headphone is pretty impressive at £45 and it gives me freedom from wires with my Fiio x5 iii. While I know that the Fiio is a high res player so most is being lost in translation, this combo works for general hobbling around the house and for high quality, it’s still there with my decent headphones and a dedicated amp, or even wired straight into the Fiio. It drives the Senn hd650 and the Beyer DT1990 easily.
On bluetooth, it’s extremely loud through the Boltune.
I really think they’re a nice buy.