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Company Info: Meelectronics is a new company that produces some of the best headphones for the price. From my experience, they have some of the best costumer service. Their website can be found here
Product: Meelectronics M9 without iPhone microphone
Price: Retail:$30 I bought mine of Amazon for $20
Specifications:
* Driver: 9mm driver
* Frequency Range: 20 20000Hz
* Impedance: 16 ohms
* Connector: 3.5mm gold plated
* Cable Length: 1.4m(4.6ft)
Equipment Used:
* My custom-built desktop with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium sound card
* 32GB 3rd generation iPod touch
* Fiio E5 amplifier
Packaging and Accessories: The packaging is a nice, clear plastic box. Not hard to open and gets the job done. When it comes to accessories, there is only one thing I can say, wow. Meelectronics gives you quite a lot of goodies for $30. The box includes the headphones themselves, 4 extra pairs of tips, 3 varying size pairs of single-flange tips, and an extra pair of bi-flanges making it a total of 5 pairs of tips. A very nice case is included, the case also has a little pocket on the inside for storage of items such as extra tips. An airline adapter, a cord wrapper, and a shirt-clipper is also included. The accessories themselves could retail for $15+, the generosity of Meelectronics is just amazing.
Build Quality: The M9's are built very well; the housings are made of aluminum and are very lightweight The cable is a very nice braided cable that is coated in a clear plastic/rubber substance. The stress relief is a 45 degree plug which is the best type of plug for those who carelessly wrap their earphones around their mp3 players. The plug is coated in gold to insure the best connectivity. The only thing I did not like was the filter used on the housings. The paper filter is not very durable and both of mine came off with no way of replacing them. I would have liked a wire mesh filter much more.
Isolation: The M9's do a slightly-above average job at isolation, I believe this is due to the vent holes in the back of the housings. They are good enough for bus rides, walking, etc. However they will not isolate enough for loud activities, say mowing a lawn. There is very little to no microphonics when the shirt clip is used. The earphones are very comfortable, they are one of the few IEM's that I can wear comfortably while laying sideways on my pillow.
Sound Signature: I had ran 150 hours of burn-in time using pink noise and frequency sweep files.
* Bass: The bass is the strongest point of the m9's. Before burn-in, the bass was very boomy, and crept into the mids even the highs. However, after the burn-on, the bass cleaned up significantly. The bass is now more controlled and has great depth and body. The bass has moved from being boomy to being more tight,punchy sounding. The bass is very smooth and can be very deep.
* Midrange: The mids are decent, but nothing too special. The mids lack compared to the bass, but they are still very smooth. Even though they are behind the bass in comparison, they are still very enjoyable.
* Highs: The highs are very good, better than the mids but still behind the bass in comparison. The high's have an incredible extension for the price and are very sparkley. They are very clear and have surprising amounts of detail but can get a little harsh. However the harshness is not very noticeable when your working out, running, etc.
* Soundstage: The soundstage was quite surprising for an IEM. I thought the headphones were very airy sounding and that there were definite separations between the instruments. The soundstage makes these headphones very enjoyable.
* Conclusion: These headphones are not analytical, but are very fun sounding, they have very good bass, sparkley highs.
Songs:
* Five Magics by Megadeth: The m9's due a fantastic job with this song. The bass intro sounds amazing. The cymbals sound very detailed however can get harsh, especially with an increase in volume.
* Anonanimal by Andrew Bird: One word, AMMMMMMAAAAAAAZZZZZIIIIIIINGGGGG. The song just utilizes the bass and the highs of the M9's in an indescribable way. The violin sounds crystal clear, the bass is great. I believe this song is great for testing out headphones.
* Big Poppa by The Notorious B.I.G: Sounds very good however for some reason I wanted more bass quality.
* Better Together by Jack Johnson: An acoustic song that shows the surprising detail of the M9's. The acoustic guitar and the vocals just shined with the M9's.
Amped vs. Unamped: Amplification of these earphones will most likely not a make huge difference due to the fact these earphones are relatively easy to drive because of its 16 ohm impedance. With the Fiio E5, I did not notice any huge differences in sound.
Comparisons: The M9's are one of the best, if not the best headphones in the sub $30 category. They easily beat my modded JVC Marshmalllows, Skullcandies, and my V-moda Bass Freq's. When compared to stock earphones, haha, I guess you already know. The M9's even beat out headphones that are much more expensive. Compared to my Ultimate Ears super.fi 3's, the bass of the M9's are greatly superior, the highs are also better. Th
e only thing the Ultimate Ears does better is the midrange. My Shure SE110's are inferior to the M9
's even though they cost up to seven times more than the M9's, the bass on the Shures are muddy compared to the bass of the M9's. The clarity is also inferior to that of the M9's.
Conclusion: The M9's are a great budget pair of earphones that one should consider when looking at headphones in the sub $50 range. They are a great value for $30, they are incredible value with all the goodies and extras you receive. They have unmatched bass for the price. They also boast great, clear highs. The only thing bad about them is the slightly recessed mids and that no one really knows about Meelectronics.
Verdict: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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These are a good phone for the price. Worth much more than 30 bucks. Good build quality. If you like bass these phones might be for you.I have the silver model without the microphone, but same earphone. These are very solidly built earphones, have one of the best cables you'll find on any earphones up to $100, and have a great sound quality that rivals much more expensive phones, like the Klipsch S4.
The M9 has a very strong bass response (a little boomy until about 30-40 hours of use), a flat or slightly recessed mid response, and a very clear strong treble response (a bit grainy, also until the 30-40 hour use mark). They give very good details all across the spectrum, have a pleasantly wide soundstage, and yet are still very musical and still put you in the middle of the music, enjoying it, not just analyzing it.
The M9 comes with very nice accessories for the price, as well. You get several ear tips to give you the right seal. Like most IEMs, it can be sensitive to insertion depth and position: too shallow kills the bass response, too deep and the treble response is dulled. You also get a nice carry case that is big enough to probably hold the very small Nano, Sansa Clip type players.
A very worthy small investment.I am a web developer and I use my headphones mainly for listening to podcasts, lectures, etc and I also listen to music. These headphones sound perfect for everything... Seems like the longer I use them, the better they sound..
My last set of headphones lasted less than 3 weeks.. I have had these for 5 months and they have been through everything. i have caught the wire on drawer knobs before and I wear these daily while driving, hiking or even shoveling snow. These things are built to last!
Every set of headphones I have ever owned except these have all had connection problems after a period of time. Usually it is where the wires meat the jack. These are built really well and so far so good..
Another big plus was that I paid around $20 for these I believe.. I am not sure what they are selling for but I have paid 3 times as much for headphones that have not lasted nearly as long and have not had the sound quality these have. I just love these headphones.. 5 months of using these every single day and they work perfectly still and they sound even better now than when I got them.. Oh yeah, these headphones block a good deal of sound as well.
This was one of the best purchases I have ever made.. I am so happy with these..
UPDATE-Here it is January 2011..I have had the phones since Aug 2010 and I have used them every single day since they arrived. I finally managed to break them..One of the speaker wires ripped in half. I was very depressed because going back to any other headphones after these is just seriously depressing. I went through my orders and found the order for these and sure enough they had a year warranty! I contacted the company through email yesterday and today the7y are shipping out a new paid for me.
If you have ever read any of my other reviews you will know I am a regular person and that I leave honest reviews. In addition, I never get this excited about a product. I have never been so happy with such an inexpensive purchase before. If you are reading this right now researching head phones I am telling you these headphones are very durable and they sound great. They bock outside sound as well as other headphones that cost 6 times as much.. This is truly a great buy and this company stands behind their products..
These get 5 stars!!
Rich
Talk Internet Community DevelopmentThese headphones make my music sound the way I always intended my in-ear earbuds to sound. My former favorite, JVC HAFX35B Soft Marshmallow headphone (Black) pale in comparison to these headphones. The clarity is wonderful with the highs sounding crisp and defined. The mid range is clear-vocals are never difficult to distinguish. The bass is defined and leaves a punch in your ear that you would swear should be making your body vibrate. Noise isolation is very good with these headphones. The audio is crisp and clear even at low volumes.
A pleasant surprise in the packaging was the carrying case, the extra earbud pieces which claim to change the sound dynamics slightly (such as "balanced" or "full bass") I've only used the buds that were pre-installed because to me they sound perfect. The build quality of the ear buds are far above that of skullcandy, philips, sony or any other $20 pair you'll find. The buds are metal and the cord/wire is a more sturdy and flexible than the typical headphone cords.
I use them in my android phone, computer, laptop, and mp3 player with excellent results from each. These are great earbuds-especially for the price.
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