TL; DR features and service great, but the sound is too unbalanced.
I was previously an on-ear ironing (Ohrmuschelklammer-) usual headphones. Could not create a systemic deep bass, but I was quite happy with it. The headset should now be reviewed on here my first "big". I had been a while earlier research, which it should be for, but something was always to be found, which is why I could not decide. This one was new to the market and there was only one English-language short test, which was not at all daunting. So I decided once again to take the risk of beta testing on me.
First Impressions:
The packaging is common, and the headset looks great. It's built a lot of plastic, but that makes him quite easily, and it also does not work somehow unstable. It is conveniently located and can be adjusted well when the detent is a bit weak.
Commissioning:
First, the mandatory charging, It turned out that the cover of the micro-USB connector is pretty fummlich. I had a fear that this would probably not join long. The charging itself using the supplied USB cable (any standard Micro USB cable it also does) and a USB power adapter (not included) was taken care of quickly. So turn on and pair with the Galaxy S3 via NFC: Simply hold the smartphone to the earpiece; I love this feature! The very first pairing must confirm again manually, the following connections via NFC function then by simply push ahead. The successful coupling operation is confirmed by a short tone.
Without NFC in the normal way the coupling processes with a Nexus 7 (2013) via NFC and also with a Nexus 7 (2012) (Search, Select) were easily and quickly.
The media and control on the headset earpiece is very well resolved: no complicated multiple assignments, good pressure points, logical occupancy. The forward and back button has two functions, but this is quite solved sense: simple click track jump, longer click to reel in the title.
Call in headset mode:
I have a call initiated via smartphone and then out via headphones in headset mode. Besides the fact that it sounds strange for myself by the damping (one hears his own voice very attenuated), the intelligibility was very good on both sides.
The revelation - the listening test:
So I got music draufgespielt and there was a strange feeling, a - as something wrong, but what? He plays loud enough I got more bass and bass part than ever before with a headset (but not overemphasized), heights were clearly audible, noise or other interference was imperceptible, but the sound was somehow "strange". I am not an audiophile nor predisposed sound analytical, but I realized that that's kind of different from usual. Maybe my previous headset had indeed but all too grottig and have messed my hearing? I wanted to give him a chance, so I did a lot of disparate titles sample belongs (many of them on the Galaxy S3 APTX to minimize quality defects in FLAC format). Then the title "Night Walk" from "Belle and Sebastian" was my turn and I almost fell off the couch: there is a sequence of single piano notes, and individual pitches which have so strongly "reingehauen" that I got a fright , Preview of the same title about direct cable connection, then confirmed with my old headphones, and also the next day with another sample headphones while Me * -Markt that this is a phenomenon of this listener! I would be interested times a frequency response diagram of the listener. I strongly suspect that there at least a strong hump would be seen.
Other little things:
The balance was not quite in the center, everything was a bit "too far right". To my ears, it was not: Headphones reversed - now everything was a bit too far to the left. In addition, the left earpiece made strange noises when it has pressed something on the ear and thus some (not much) pressure has been built in the handset. It sounded as if one brings a preloaded membrane by bending to "click". This occurred only on the left, the right is not. These latter "little things" I would but I just can not accept.
The Decision:
The hearing test showed: that's too weird and not the point! The headset goes back.
BTW: I've just bought a Philips Fidelio M1BTBL and am using this now fully satisfied.