#URBANEARS MEDIS REVIEW DRIVERS#

#URBANEARS MEDIS REVIEW DRIVERS#

The clarity factor is not quite up to par with the Senn, probably due to the differences in treble presence, but listening to the midrange, I think the resolution of the driver in the Major is better than the old drivers in the HD25-1. The upper midrange may be a little too much on some recordings, so in my opinion Zound Industries can still improve the tonal balance a little more. The overall sound is also a little darker than the Senn, as the mid and upper treble is less prominent on the Major. Although the SennвЂ™s bass is a little bit punchier, the Major has a little bit more bass body for an overall weightier sound. All of these for a good $100 less than the Sennheiser, but accordingly I am not going to confuse the Major as a superior headphone than the Senn. The bass is not too much or overpowering, but it carries the beat very well for most modern alternative, progressive, or hard rock bands. It has the same forward character that is good for rock.

The Marshall Major can somehow be considered as a baby Sennheiser HD25-1. So these Marshalls are clearly more than just a re-badged product. And again, in the case of the Urbanears Medis to the Marshall Minor, Zound Industries was wise enough to make the sound different and so to justify the added price on the Marshall Minor. Even if the drivers were the same (something I havenвЂ™t yet confirmed), the difference in housing, damping, and pads can make enough differences in the resulting sound quality that youвЂ™re not going to confuse the sound of the two as being the same. I donвЂ™t know if the drivers are the same, but the tuning of the Major is clearly ahead and better than the Urbanears Plattan. In a way, the Major had a similar timbre to the Urbanears Plattan which retails for $60. I realized that the Marshall headphones were manufactured by Zound Industries, an OEM headphone company that manufactures headphones for a lot of different brands, including the Urbanears label. In addition to the Major, IвЂ™ve also received the Marshall Minor, and so I decided to make this into a double review. Up until that point all the impressions seem fairly positive, so despite failing to obtain a sample from Zound Industries, I pressed on to get a sample for a review, and finally IвЂ™ve gotten one, courtesy of and Indonesian headphone retailer. Most of them returned with quite a positive impression: that the Major was a fun, toe-tapping headphone that works well with the music that they were listening to. I got a few of the local forum members to go check out the Marshall Major and tell me what they think of it. The overall fit was comfortable, the sound isolation very good, the dimensions are quite compact and can be folded, and the build quality seems quite solid overall. I thought it was a fun headphone with a good voicing for rock. My impression with the Marshall headphone was around a month ago, in a brief in-store audition.

Urbanears medis review