When Breo sent me a pair of the de Janeiros to try, they also included a fire engine red pair of their cheaper Natals. Quite frankly, even after nearly two months, I’m not sure what to think. And that’s sort of it., my thoughts after the jump.
Audio
There’s a bit of story around this review… When I stopped by Track Scan’s booth at CES there were quite a few models… including I suppose this one. There was that really stuck out though, a $50 model that provided audio quality on par with just about all the traditional headphones I had heard that day… TheMacFeed got the VIBRAS after CES all the way back in January… Daniel had them and for whatever reason couldn’t review these. For a while, it perplexed me. He has handled all the gaming headphones up until this point for a reason… I’m not a gamer. I’ll occasionally play some Madden or Forza, but I would never consider myself a gamer. Hence, he does all those reviews. This is however… my review.
It seems to be a growing trend within whatever segment of the market it is: a lifestyle accessory company. Names like: Nixon and WESC are the first of many that come to mind of companies who make watches, clothes, bags and… headphones. I’m not sure what the appeal is for companies to do that and some part of me believes that it isn’t as lucrative as it might seem given that branding superpowers like Monster Cable have shied away. Still, here’s another. This one comes from Breo, a British company that I really haven’t heard of. Still, I hadn’t heard of Thinksound, and we all know how that turned out. Today, my thoughts on their cutely named, de Janeiro headphones.
We’ve mentioned a few times before the importance of the $100 earphone market, but we’ve avoided one large small segment, the $100 iPhone earphones with all the bells and whistles. Why? There’s not really a whole lot of products to fill the large demands. There’s the Klipsch S4i and then… That’s pretty much it. The fashion-obsessed sound geeks at v-moda decided that changing this would be a good idea and they let us play around with their newest creation, the Remix Remote. Our thoughts after the jump.
It’s been a while. Perhaps too long? Anyway, time for another headphone review. Charlie’s mastery of the Spanish language is awful to say the least, but eskuché means something about listening. It’s also the name of a company that produces two stylish headphones: the Control and the 33 1/3. We got a chance to sit down with the new version color of the former. They looked similar to something else, but more on that later. (Later = not in this post) Anyway our thoughts on the Control Avo after the jump.
It’s been a tad bit of time since our two reviews (here and here) of the DPS Plug-In from Bongiovi Acoustics. Three things have happened since. First, we awarded them best Mac software in our 32Reviews32Days Awards. Second, they added the Shure SE530 into the stable of profiles they have. Third, we had a very very short interview with Joe Butera. The last part is sort of a lie.
Only because Daniel is making me. As many of you presumably know, we gave away a pair of Monster JAMZ Earphones last week. The winner, who still hasn’t contacted us, is astrofan435. Please send us an e-mail or contact us via YouTube. Thank you to all those who participated and we promise, we are giving away a BBP Bag next week. A special thanks to Monster Cable for giving us the earphones to give away. If you haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channel, it’s probably a good time to, as we are going to be giving away awesome prizes all summer long.
