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(from 62 customer reviews) Excellent Fidelity, but Wire to Plug Connection is Fragile, I have been using my new Logitech Ultimate Ears 700 Noise-Isolating Earphones for most of the past weekend non-stop on my IPod. Most important, I am one of those people who like deep throbbing base! As I write this review, I am listening to Tom Petty's "You Wreck Me Baby," having recently listened to my collection of Petty, Steely Dan, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Given the physical limitation of ear pieces, I understand that there are practical constraints. Yet the base is strong, clear, and comes across distinctly from the other components of each track. (You like soft rock? Listen to your Carpenters music on these earphones. You can hear what a perfectionist Richard Carpenter really was. They make Brian Wilson's vocal arrangements sound even better.)
To backup a bit and for context, up to this point I had been dealing with the headphones that came from Apple with the IPod. Not only are they low fidelity, but they never fit snugly into both ears! I excercise with my I-pod, and I had resorted to wearing light headphones, which are no real solution. Now I use one of the medium silicon ear pieces-right ear and one of the large-left ear. When I loop the wire above both ears, running doesn't dislodge the earphones.
The literature describes Logitech's goal to minimize outside noise, and this is accomplished so well that I have to be careful when running because I can't rely on my hearing anymore to determine if traffic is coming up behind me. Also, my wife has been a little irritated now and then when I don't respond as quickly as I have in the past when she is trying to get my attention.
I am also a big fan of movie soundtracks and in particular, Thomas Newman. On my collection from "Meet Joe Black," in particular, the strings and soft orchestral backgrounds sound fantastic with the "Ultimate Ears." I am picking up electronic sounds I hadn't previously noticed in my Natalie Imbruglia and Imogen Heap collections. The mid-ranges are nice as well, and the split between right and left is great. What a blessing it is to hear silence from moment to moment in a song, when there is supposed to be silence!
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Note: Sometimes I like to play some of the tracks a little louder than I should. The first few tracks I played this way (within minutes of opening the package), seemed to have a little distortion associated with some of the vocals, which concerned me. I went to the "settings" on my IPod and changed the "EQ" setting to "Loudness." This setting works great for me because I've had difficulty trying to re-create any distortion on this setting, even with the volume turned way up.
"Ultimate Ears 700" make all the difference in the world in the quality of the sounds coming from my IPod, as well as the places and activities where I can use it. I will update the text of my review over the next several months as my learnings increase. I have had good luck changing the EQ settings for different type of music at different volumes. ("Loudness" seems to work best for me.) And I'm still on the lookout for distortion. I'll let you know how that goes.
