Earphones for Gourmets

Granted, I had a little stomach ache when I had struggled through before Christmas me to me practically to designate the Ultrasone iQ in-ears as a mobile partner to my existing Ultrasone Edition 8 Blind. On the one hand I had the parts that came only a few weeks earlier to the market never heard and for 650 EUR should be sent for a pair of ear plugs on the virtual desk to be really well thought out. For safety, I therefore ordered directly in the online shop of the manufacturer of this gives at least a four-week money back guarantee on its products, providing enough time for testing.

Processing:

Expectant I opened the package when it finally arrived. Somehow reminded me the earphones at first sight to jewelery for the ear because of their golden Foreign Affairs, a somewhat more discreet appearance I would have preferred here as a man (I'm namely usually no earrings)
Otherwise, beautifully finished complete accessories with adapter, various fittings where for each ear should be to find the right, a second cable without built-in remote control and be nice to my mind processed but because of their size a bit bulky transport box with a sometimes fiddly use for recording the listener with cable. At its technique How do I have the cable is positioned correctly you have to get used once. Here me a solution how they someday Sony offered where you lodged the listener in a box and the cable then simply rolled up like a cable drum would have preferred.
Apropro cable - something hard to understand why you have actually no volume control integrated into the cable remote control also works with my iPhone 4S the pause button is not always reliable. So it happens now and again that in the Play mode to play after a few bars is interrupted again when changing from break, but also quite possible that the software of the smartphone is in charge here. Next, why there is no app for iOS devices (Apple) where you like on other platforms this Ultrasone offers around the listener yet to fine tune. Small deduction therefore in any case before the B-Note.

Less problematic than I actually was afraid I managed to place the earphone in my ear canal, but of course as with nearly all new appliances this genre you have a little practice are also here to the correct handles for granted. Otherwise, there is the comfort really little to complain about, the handset will not give me a nuisance even after during longer wearing or itching in the ear because this begins to sweat because the air in the ear canal statements.

Sound:

Properly seated (the plugged from factory Comply foam TX-100 inner ear cushion parts proved to me than optimal fit and at the same time quite comfortable) I noticed after the first few bars the tonal kinship to my Edition 8, - at least in the medium and high frequencies As. Fine resolution and clean locatable set of earphones at the very beginning the entire musical content. With appropriate photographs earphones also play amazingly spatially, let every instrument and every voice to breathe air and space. However, it can happen that one or the other just like its big brother here what his direct interpretation in terms sometimes something happens the IQ to be motivated. If it detects even small disagreements but in a recording, each even the smallest errors in the recording but also the poor quality of the source device are disclosed. For sensitive souls these cooperative measures could be a ticking too much directness why so every now and then sometimes.
In the bass, the listener is just in comparison to its big brother the Edition 8 even the honest skin although this for a little adult, bigger sounds and even has a bit more resolution and fine dynamics. Where the big brother in its vote of Sounding more reminiscent of large adult speakers and it consciously a slight overemphasis on the upper bass range indicates, the iQ remains neutral. Who is more so on bass power should think carefully that the IQs are the right choice.
Nevertheless, the entire Tieftonpart of IQ is clean, reaches down very deep and is provided corresponding receptacles and as present as it was intended by the recording engineer. Example, in the title "Waterfalls" by Sara K. will deteriorate over to deep strokes that are well below 50 Hz. Where this example with my B & W M1 "howler cubes" are completely swallowed up on the PC, are virtually inaudible, they are not a problem for the Ultrasone In-Ears.

Conclusion:

The question is the Ultrasone IQ are worth their money can be answered only with difficulty, but I can say from my experience so far that they are below the line one of the best in-ears that are far reaches my ear and sound close to the least come close nearly twice as expensive Edition 8. 4 stars I therefore consider this product to be appropriate because major weaknesses simply fail.