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Subject: Review: Klipsch Image Earphones
A buddy of mine linked this to me earlier today:
http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/speakers/headphones/kli…
Let's start off with first things first - The pros he lists, while legitimate, don't really tell us much about the product, but it is a brief overview, so we can overlook this. Then the cons:
The rest of the review is mostly focused on the accessories that come with the headphones, discussion of noise isolation (apparently testing them as earplugs with an after note of "they sounded great" passes as a headphone review on this site), ridiculous amounts of iPod/iPhone advertising, disregarding his son's basketball game to review the noise isolation, comfort while sleeping on a plane, and a thinly veiled insult to Al Gore, but then you get to the bottom and see the real kicker
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128 Kbps AAC. You're reviewing a $350 set of IEMs and you test them primarily using 128 Kbps AAC files on a site called "Audioholics". Isn't that the equivalent of a legally blind person going to an art gallery without their glasses to review the pieces? I guess anyone with a blog and the ability to shit out a review that really doesn't talk about the product can get test products these days.
http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/speakers/headphones/kli…
Let's start off with first things first - The pros he lists, while legitimate, don't really tell us much about the product, but it is a brief overview, so we can overlook this. Then the cons:
So two of his three negatives about it are price, and the third is color. I'm assuming he would like for them to be white to match his iPod.*Expensive!
* Higher priced than an iPod Touch!
* Only available in black
The rest of the review is mostly focused on the accessories that come with the headphones, discussion of noise isolation (apparently testing them as earplugs with an after note of "they sounded great" passes as a headphone review on this site), ridiculous amounts of iPod/iPhone advertising, disregarding his son's basketball game to review the noise isolation, comfort while sleeping on a plane, and a thinly veiled insult to Al Gore, but then you get to the bottom and see the real kicker
...To be honest, I was surprised at the quality I was able to get out of the music on my iPod Nano and my iPhone. Most of my songs are ripped as Apple AAC files, at a 44.1 kHz sample rate and around 128 kbps bit rate, with a few ripped in lossless format.
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128 Kbps AAC. You're reviewing a $350 set of IEMs and you test them primarily using 128 Kbps AAC files on a site called "Audioholics". Isn't that the equivalent of a legally blind person going to an art gallery without their glasses to review the pieces? I guess anyone with a blog and the ability to shit out a review that really doesn't talk about the product can get test products these days.
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