Jan 13, 2009 05:05 PM
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(Updated Jan 14, 2009 09:18 AM)
Despite the inherent imperfections Human ears have an insatiable appetite for the best audition they are capable of which by the way is between 20 Hz and 20 kHz normally called as the audio range.
To satiate this seemingly insatiable lust of audio, I was searching for good quality earphones basically for watching/hearing movies on my laptop as I was devoid of my 5.1 speakers which are sitting pretty at my home town which incidentally is not the place where I supposedly work.
Cost was a restraint. Comm'n who cares for petty things like earphones. Any XYZ type earphone with OKayish sound comes for hardly 200 or so bucks. So getting them should be as easy as buying anything. Isn't it? But NO, buying a earphone is much more complex than buying a MP3 player itself. **Almost all branded MP3 players are reasonably good, but not all branded earphones are good.
Earphones are the soul of music. No matter how good the player is unless it is complemented by good earphones the effect is disastrous. Hence, my search for perfect earphones with a reasonable price begun. Creative and Sound are almost synonymous unless you have a budget to buy Bose or Harman Kardon. So, searching for reasonable priced excellent quality headphones fetched me a single answer and you must have guessed by now that the answer was Creative EP630
Creative EP630 are in the earplug phoneswhich have to be inserted in the ears like an ear bud. At first it feels a bit weird as the plastic is as far in your ear as possible. But that is a part of its aesthetics as it is designed for noise cancellationand it is effective to an extent that sometimes you'll feel what the heck, am I living aloof? It has 3 pre-supplied bud covers of different sizes to suit different ears, so choose as per your ear and comfort.
Coming to the main point which is the audio quality I must say it is the best I had ever heard. I heard new beats in the same songs which I listened 100 times before.That is the beauty of this piece. Full audio quality can be best heard by earphones and not by speakers no matter how good they are as the environmental inputs cut in almost always unless you are in a soundproof room.
Now every thing has its cons, how could this be an exception and it is Not.The balance of the left and right plugs is not as I wanted it to have.The switching of the left and right doesn't do wonders either.BUT, According to a Washington study, The right and left human ears process sound differently. According to scientists who studied the hearing of babies and found the right ear better at picking up speech-like sounds and the left more attuned to music.
This left me wondering whether it is imperfection of the earplug or my ears and somehow justifieswhy I begun my review with the inherent imperfections of human ear.
