If you have ever bought any iPod related products, I believe you must have at least one pair of white headphones. Now, this white earphone has become a classic style, replaced by the new EarPods. EarPods are included with the iPod or iPhone. If you want to buy it separately, the new EarPods is no more expensive than the old one. Taiwan sells for 990 yuan, but this time it looks like the new upgraded EarPods, but it is unsatisfactory, except for wearing comfort. In addition to a slight increase in performance, there is no new change in function, and the sound performance is not as good as the old one.
The new EarPods, looks different from traditional headphones, do you like it?
Traditional headphones that look like ear canal headphones
The EarPods headset that I got in my hand was brought back to the Hong Kong Apple Store by U-3C colleagues. It was just to open the box and share it. So I took a photo of U-Audio. I picked it up and listened to it on the iPhone. It feels very good. strange. This EarPods is different from the traditional earbuds. It is a bit like an ear canal earphone, but it is actually a traditional earbud earphone. The experience is equal to the sandwich between the two, so it feels strange to wear it at first, but think about it. Also, this is not an earbud type earphone. You don't need to "imagine" it into an earbud type earphone, but listen for a little more, but the strange feeling is even stronger!
U-3C colleagues bought in Hong Kong, so they are still priced in Hong Kong dollars.
Where is it strange? The strangest thing when music stops. In terms of wearing comfort, EarPods is much better than traditional white apple headphones. The size is slightly smaller, the angle is closer to the curved shape of the ear, it is easy to wear, and the left and right sound The shape of the road is different, so it won't be confusing. These are the places where EarPods "upgrades", but why does the music feel "weird" when it stops? Let us look at the original intention of Apple's design of EarPods to see where this "weird" comes from.
The old white headphones on the left and the new EarPods on the right, you can see that EarPods is "longer"
Designing a new look for comfort
What is the headset? Simply speaking, it is a mini speaker, so there are single and crossovers inside, and the frame of the earphone is a speaker, but all the parts are miniaturized and reduced to the size that the ear can wear, but other acoustic characteristics and speaker design. The same, just the headset is smaller, it is easier to take the whole body, this EarPods change, mainly in the "shape", so Apple's main advertising, first tell us that Apple designed a "suitable for everyone to wear headphones "It's almost impossible to design a pair of shoes for everyone, so they used computer 3D photography to measure the shape of hundreds of people's ears and design the unique shape of EarPods." Well, from here, we know that Apple is "first shape", and then design the sound, because it is suitable for everyone to wear, is the first priority of EarPods design, and about the wearing comfort, EarPods really upgraded, it is more Light, wearing on the ear is no burden, the special shape is easy to hand (or ear), in the price of 990, I am afraid that few headphones can be more comfortable than EarPods.
The unique shape is the selling point of EarPods. The shape is different from left to right. It does not look at the label of L or R, and it will not be worn on the left and right sides.
With the shape of the earphones, Apple has to make the sounds better in the next step, so they designed the holes for “all their dutiesâ€, which is the same principle as the speaker design of the bass reflex holes, except that the headphones are small, open a few Small holes may not be noticed by ordinary people. The slender reflection hole behind the EarPods is designed for the mid-high audio section, while the elongated bottom has an elongated reflection hole for low-frequency enhancement. EarPods's low-frequency sense is indeed better than traditional white headphones. It can be seen from the design. Comparing EarPods with old Apple headphones, you can find that EarPods has a long extension of the outer casing, and the extra long and narrow space allows the low frequency band. The extension is better, the lower the frequency is, the longer the length is needed, so EarPods is better than the old headphones, and the design can find the answer.
In the past, the openings were all "small round holes". This time, a long strip opening was opened, which is also an acoustic design for low frequencies.
However, the new headphones are "weird" in the sound performance, which is also related to the special shape. What is the shape of EarPods? Some people say petals, some say water droplets. In short, it is different from traditional headphones. But why have traditional earphones been like these for decades, no one has changed, and only Apple knows how to innovate and progress, so come up with the special shape of EarPods? Of course not, the shape and design of traditional earphones have evolved over the past few decades, so the appearance is like that, you can add fancy colors, crystal decoration, but the part of the sound is definitely the natural evolution of acoustic physics, Apple The second-handed EarPods was fitted with a special-shaped casing, which really became the main cause of “feeling strangeâ€.
EarPods' earphone shell has a longer extension length, and the "tube" has a more cut, which can increase the low frequency extension, but it is slightly turbid and less clean and clear.
Additional cavity creates noise
Where is the "blame"? EarPods' shape is slightly extended forward, which is closer to the ear, but it doesn't feel like a ear canal earphone. The EarPods stick out this part, which is between the ear and the earphone. A cavity is added, and this cavity will produce a microphone effect. When the external sound is heard, there will be a buzzing sound, so the surrounding background noise will sound very strange, as if the low frequency is filtered out, only The middle and high frequencies are left. This kind of humming sound is also on the old white earphones, but because of the traditional earphone shape, it will not be so close to the ear, the gap is relatively large, so when the outside noise is introduced, even if there is a buzzing sound, there will be a big part. Passing out from the larger gap will not feel strange. However, the EarPods and the ears are tightly attached, the gap between the earphones and the ears is smaller, and the microphone effect is more pronounced.
EarPods have a special shape and are comfortable to wear, but there are more cavities between the sounding unit and the ear, which will cause a microphone effect and increase interference noise.
The interference of this kind of microphone effect is not obvious when listening to music, but as long as you don't play music, it is very strange. Also, since it is equipped with a dedicated earphone for the iPhone, so there is more phone line control function, take the iPhone call test, the effect is similar to the original old headphones, so in the functional part, EarPods is flat, but this It’s not that Apple spent years working on better headphones, why didn’t it make people feel amazing?
Let the density and cohesion of the sound fall back. I listened to "The Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5" by Selkin and Ozawa Seiji and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The second movement is a beautiful slow motion. EarPods does strengthen a lot in the low frequency part, but it is slightly blurred. The slow-paced cello has a lot of sense, but it lacks flexibility. The music sounds a bit lazy. The performance of the string group is good, but the high-frequency extension is inferior to the old one. The old and new Apple headphones alternately listened for a while. In the end, I still thought that the original headphones were relatively straightforward and relatively clean. Although EarPods had more low frequencies, it looked blurry and less clean and degenerate.
The industrial design of the storage box is good, maintaining the consistent texture of Apple
Which part of EarPods has changed? Efficiency, and not getting better, is getting worse. How to listen? There is no data published on the Apple Store. How can it be heard that the efficiency is getting worse? It's very simple. No matter which kind of Apple product you use with headphones, listening to a piece of music at the same volume, the louder pair of headphones is more efficient, and the whispering efficiency is lower. How much is the EarPods less efficient than the old ones? Sorry, there is no data, there is no way to compare it, but the volume is at least two squares above the MacBook Pro. Hey, portable headphones are most in need of efficiency, and most people will not expand their headphones with headphones. Also, if you destroy the volume for enough sound pressure, EarPods's low frequency will be more and fuller, further reducing the clarity and resolution of the mid-high band.
The old one on the left and the EarPods on the right. There is no difference between the old and new headphones.
Comfortable upgrade, the sound has regressed
It seems that my impression of EarPods is very bad? Yes. Is the editor-in-chief biased against Apple? Sorry, I am already an authentic Apple. My PC has been out of the house two years ago. I changed my iMac and MacBook Pro. I went out to speak for the sake of lightness. I also bought a MacBook Air. The iPad bought the New iPad from the first generation. I still have the iPhone in my hand. Frankly speaking, the title under my head is still under the mercy of the people, and the upgrade of "poor and unsatisfactory", because EarPods is indeed more comfortable and better to wear, the special shape allows me to wear black headphones, not afraid of wearing the wrong side, but In addition, the sound table of EarPods is uncomfortable, the sound field is widened, but in exchange for the turbid and heavy low frequency, the medium and high frequency is not open enough. I don't take a lot of headphones to compare with EarPods, but my own The product "old" traditional headphones are compared. If it is a bonus, EarPods is worthwhile, but if you want to buy 990 yuan separately, replace the old white headphones, you get the "upgrade" only comfortable to wear, the utility function is the same, but if you pay attention to It’s a sound, then EarPods is not better, but it has regressed.
The remote control has the same function. The old (left) size is smaller, and the new EarPods is slightly larger. It is easier to use.
On the reverse side, the old one on the left, the new one on the right, one more microphone mark, the same function
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