Sound:  Very good.  They are quite the little exuberant beasts though, they love to take a song and go wild with it.  Quite noticeably with the bassline, even when they may seem at first to be not a particularly bassy IEM.  Then something comes on and pow, the bass seems to come out from nowhere and start tearing the place up.  In much more sedate, vocal centric tracks the bass stays in its place, polite, gently accompanying things content as you like.  It’s quite a curious behaviour.   The Clarito with this presentation it trying to be all things to all men and its doing a pretty good job of it too.  it’s not a specialist in any particular area but it’s very WWWW drama filled and willing to try to do everything with an abundance of enthusiasm.  It is also very notably sensitive and easy to drive.  A little flick of the volume dial and your deafen yourself.  Even out of my Nexus 5 they went stupid loud with ease.  Actually they benefited from additional impedance to sedate their acoustic mania.  There just want to throw every bit of energy, pouring their heart and soul in whatever they are playing back, be it poptastic charty stuff or soft jazz.  Thrilling, exciting, wild, dynamic, dazzling, maybe a bit too dazzling.  That treble it hard edged, cutting on the initial impact if you pair it with a hard or cold source.  A little warming, as is rather common with phones actually, does them a little bit of nudging in the direction of smooth.  However these retain gobs of enthusiasim and dynamics whatever you do to them.  Thrilling and fun, would make for a great, entry point for those who want all of the musical everything.

Sound:  Bassy.  High quantity, high quality bass.  The one caveat is that it doesn’t truly shine unless you power them well, in which case they are super fun, bass cannons.  The trouble there though is if you have a source that’s good enough to make them there best you are possibly buying something more expensive than this.  Not that they are hard to drive, your crappy phone will do it, make them loud too, it just won’t make them be the best they can.  That would be a shame too.  Now these are sort of the rough sound signature I like, big bass, good mids, tame treble.  It’s just they’re a more dramatically sloped slant than id normally like.  They are too bass, lol, big, crazy town bassy.  When you don’t power them that well the bass is rather mediocre in its quality but should you pair them, power them well, the bass kicks it up a very significant notch in terms of quality.  Sure there is way too much but its stonkingly good.  Energetic, potent, it’s got so much vigour to it.  I do find that if I listen for ears out it wears me out but in smaller doses its super fun.   Crazy, wild, prolific, bass party cannons.  Yet with pretty damn good quality.  Still the quantity, lol it literally has me laughing at the abundance and the proclivity it has to kick you in the ear drums.  It’s a right little beast of a thing, truly a little beast of a thing where the bass is concerned.  The mids are pretty good, little lower favouring and not really much airiness to them.  The treble, well they are really quite subdued which is perfectly fine for my ears but you know, treble fans won’t love them.  Also proper music, things well recorded and mastered like acoustic classical, can sound rather skewed.

Sound:  Great.  Well mostly great, I mean these are audiophile tuned.  There is bass there but it is of a wonderfully high quality at the expense of its quantity.  That means there isn’t much of it.  It is tuned for acoustically perfect classical works.  There it shines, it does some glorious double bass bass, not Miss Minaj when she pulls up her Jag and goes “Dun-d-d-dun-dun-d-d-dun-dun” no sir, these won’t be having any of that.  Of course you can play chavy pop but you probably won’t.  The mids, almost as great as the bass but this time we’ve got a better quantity.  Once more it’s perfect for strings and naturally produced sounds.  Vocals can be a tiny bit dried but for all intents, these are tuned to be acoustically perfect.  Until you reach the upper vocal ranges, into the treble.  There is a great old spike and these have the most laser like focused like sibilant point.  It’s so fine, so lethally razor sharp its more like that of the world’s finest samurai sword.  So polite, so refined, then with you barely noticing the blade is unsheathed and cleft you in two.  Once more if you stick to acoustic, no artificial sounds and its superb.  For classical it is staggeringly good and it is something every potential audiophile ought to hear if not possess.  However be aware that its upper end while perhaps it’s Ety ER4-B like technically perfect, its ear ravaging.  You play loudness war produced stuff, cheap pop, hard abrasive stuff and it can be exhausting.  The HE-350 while a true marvel is not a can for all seasons nor all styles.  Yes it’s utterly magnificent but proceed with caution.

Sound:  Wonderful.  They are really rather generalist in their nature being able to turn their hand instantly, and with equal skill to anything.  They are very natural sounding in their balance, so that means they are boosted to compensate for human perceptions.  Never bass dominant though.  The mids are a little back a way but their clarity is outstanding, faintly dry, but their instrument separation makes them stand alone, so much direct clarity.  The space to breathe properly too, give such an open feel to vocals.  The treble, oh they do rather shine a bit here.  Not just because they like to be a smidge bright, they have that metallic enclosure and there is a highly crisp metallic bight to the initial note impact.  For me these while most impressive, was a little edgy, a little hard on my delicate ears.  So I felt the need to stick to slightly warmer sources and only to tracks with high bit rates and well mastered treble.  A bright source and low bit rate crap, yeah you really don’t want to do that.  However given their price you will want to be feeding them well anyway.  On that subject, you’ll also want to feed them lots of power.  These are high impedance for an IEM and relatively insensitive.  They still sound good out of your crappy phone but seriously, feed them well and you’ll be generously rewarded.

Value:  It really is keenly priced and while I’d want its WiFi enabled sibling for the tiny bit extra, you can’t go wrong with this.  That is if you want a mature, grown up sounding product.  If you want “all of da bass” then this isn’t what you are looking for.

Sound:  Wow.  Yeah while in absolute terms they may be nothing super special, their abilities are adequate, enough to be pleasing to the ear and enjoyable.  Then you take a gander at the price tag, that Super lux are pulling off this good for this price is a marvel of cheap Chinese manufacturing.  Despite their being closed they haven’t ramped up the bass, they have in fact tamed it a bit, toned it towards a bit of a middle to upper bass hump that can come out to play if provoked.  Though it does go reasonably deep but doesn’t rise up in scale as it does so, which many closed cans like to do.  The mids are rather capable too.  A little bit over shadowed but they have a nice clear focus.  They try to keep a bit of breadth and clarity which they just about pull off.  Then the treble comes in and if you power them well, that treble can really show off a bit too much.  It wants to be hard, crisp edged and do what it can to give you the air of their being lots of, errr, air.  For a closed can it has a stab at being more spacious and well, its so so.  Not bad but that treble can be a little too hot at times for me.  Pair it warm and softly though and it’s really rather impressive.  The detail retrieval and nuance is fab for this price.

Value:  Great stuff, sure they are too bassy but oodles of fun and they are Bluetooth capable yet priced like they were just wired.  It’s a quality, big bassy fun time wireless party machine.

Sound:  I love these, love these sooooooooo very much.  They are tuned with my own personal preferences in mind and feel near perfectly matched to my own hearing curve.  Moderatly over bassy, quite middy and rather demure treble.  The bass is fast but not BA fast which is fine because BA bass can be a little soulless but here its grand, symphonically grand.  Lush, articulate and can sweep and soar gloriously yet it can give you a fairly quick punch when called upon.  It’s not the most aggressive though, every punch has a faint coating of memory foam over that granite below.  Its graceful and agile like something from Swan Lake.  No harshness, no abrasiveness nor jarring movements.  Okay so the most aggressive bass does have that aggression a tiny bit muted.  If you want TF10 GRRRRR punch you face then no.  It’s fast, it’s agile but its idea of aggressive is 2Cellos “Smooth Criminal” yeah you can tell there is aggression there but it’s still not abrasive on the ear.

Value:  Cracking good value.  Cheap, looks great and thumping ponding bass capabilities.

Value:  They seem to have a wide price variation but even at their max price at £125 (about US$162) they are still much cheaper than their aimed at competition, Beats.  Plus you get the added bonus of their being both Bluetooth and wired capable.

Value:  At £400 its pretty good.  You get near modern flagship spec’s, a great screen and a rather good sounding phone.  It’ll do everything you want and should have enough power to cope with things for years to come.  However Sony has a dizzying array of options with so many handsets released it impossible to say this one is better value for you that another without a close look at what matters to you.

Sound:  Wow.  Wow again.  They are V shaped but with a flat bottom.  The bass is elevated, very seriously elevated and loves to come rip roaring out of nowhere at you.  Its great quality though so that I don’t mind so much.  It’s punchy with a hint of bloom, a pretty spot on blend actually.  Though a little less maybe of it.  Actually if it would maybe just take a Valium and sit the F down for a bit.  It’s like someone just fed it a bag of sugar and fistfuls of blue Smartie’s.  The treble is just the same.  Too excitable, super impressive for sure, I mean it is seriously impressive but oh good lord please just sit still for a bit, please.  Now these certainly make a massively impressive first impression.  It’s simply all of the wow, so much wow, it’s off the charts impressive.  The mids, they are less wild but have a great breadth to them.  Lots of openness and a touch dry, great detail retrieval though and great clarity.

Sound:  These sound just like their siblings the QY13 except these would seem to have a hint more bass.  Though that could just be to them needing to sit so shallow.  Either way their overall audio quality is really quite impressive for the price, never mind for Bluetooth at the price.  That they are also Bluetooth is a wonder of modern electronics and Chinese mass production.  That I can sit here, using these and genuinely enjoy them, actually like listening to them is crazy.  I have stuff considerably more expensive but these little babies at just £20 can hold their own and still sound pleasing is just lunacy.   Now they aren’t perfect, for starters they are rather too bassy, not massively so but you know, they are bassy.  They do slightly dominate I suppose but they never got on my nerves.  They’re well scaled and with a hint of bloom and expansion, a dash of warmth too.  Mids are good, slightly darkened, a little warmed.  They clearly have a preference for smoothly rich vocals, airy they don’t do so well but again, that price tag.  I can’t fault them for it.  The treble, it’s like the mids, warmed, not so prominent.  It is a little bit delicate too.  If you force its abundance you do start to notice that this isn’t an expensive product.  The treble tries to stay delicate and shimmery but you can tell its breaking up.

Sound:  Here’s where things pickup somewhat.  While the sound quality isn’t exactly off the charts great, when you keep in mind that they contain a DAC, an amp, battery and all the wireless gubbins.  Then on top of all of that they have the actual earphones too it’s clear you have a bit of a bargain on your hands.   The bass here is what is dominant, its quality is adequate, it’s mostly about the scale and the presence it brings, its big, hearty and so full bodied.  The mids too are pretty reasonable.  They are a bit on the warmish side and slightly creamy.  Perhaps a touch thickish but this warm presentation is rather pleasant.  It also is highly complementary to most bouncy pop style vocals.  It helps to gloss over vocal issues and mastering troubles with a more smooth and consistent presentation.  The treble is somewhat light but that’s to be expected.  Its quality isn’t bad, it’s a dusting of sparkle and with its slightly warmed, gently sanded makes a for a very easy on the ear treble.  Overall its leaves a bass slanted, warm and smooth presentation.

Sound:  These from the first instant you hear them you’ll discover a terrifying new level of detail that you may not have realised existed.  Wow are these baby’s detail cannons or what.  Side by side with their close siblings, the DN-2000, these are they but with treble steroids.  Oh lordy are these treble happy.  It’s not to say that the bass isn’t there nor that it isn’t extremely capable because it is as are the mids.  The bass is light, gently and lightly sculpted and wise you can push it, force it to roar it’s not its natural inclination.  Its bass is a paragon of neutrality and precision.  The mids too, they are very capable.  Lacking a bit of breadth, they want to narrow, focus things up and launch it out at in one narrowly focused beam.  Beam like that of a laser, so clean cutting, so perfectly focused and precise.  Full of soul and flavour?  Na not so much.  These are more about the crystal clear and cuttingly sharp presentation than silly wishy washy things like soul or comfort.  Spectacularly detailed of course but it wants to over focus and power project that clarity.  The treble too it likes to show you just how skilful it can be, it wants to show off and dazzle you, like a lead crystal decanter exploding before you.  It’s a seriously dazzlingly wow presentation.

Sound:  Ahh they are so open sounding.  Such space and openness, not unlike what you get from a big open can.  Still I find it a shame as otherwise these are stunning little (okay not so little) beasts.  The mids especially are fantastic.  The bass is a stupendously good quality and the treble is beautifully delicate with just enough of a pin sharp initial attack before decaying away.  Smiley face.  Otherwise, they are really, really bloody good sounding, plugging in the GR07 to my Nexus 5 and these are a clear jump up in audio quality on them.  Yeah, how crazy is that???  Now I realise a hefty chunk of that is that the Nexus 5 sounds like ass but that’s the whole point of the Aero’s.  You can plug them into stuff and bypass their crappy internal DAC and amp output.  Maybe the GR07 would win if I was comparing to a brilliant hp out but that would be negating the whole concept.  The Aero is for those who insist on using a phone and if that phone has crap audio this skirts the problem.  Sadly though not all handsets are compatible so you may need to check that before ordering a pair.  I love the balance of them.  Now I realise that some will be disappointed with the quantity of the bass but you cannot fault its quality.  Great stuff and a very audiophile like balance to these, never has my seriously crappy Nexus sounded this good, hell it’s never approached sounding like this before, awesome amazeballs stuff.

 

Sound:  Very good.  They are still very bassy, more bassy than I would want but for their target market they are comparatively more balanced than others.  Not just are they better balanced their clarity and tonality are both pretty great.  All the bluetoothy bits in them too and yet they are dirt cheap still.  Not much can have gone to the drivers but whatever Jesbod have done I think they are onto a winner.  The clarity is great, detail is alright and their comparative balance makes them a plausible audiophile’s beater gym earphone.  So long as you don’t expect the moon on a stick I’d be surprised if anyone wasn’t majorly impressed with these for their diminutive price.  Sure they have lots of bass but it’s a decent quality and it’s not too domineering, reasonably clean and doesn’t interfere too much with anything else.  It does move a bit of air and lacks a bit of punch but its fairly taut for the money.  Mids too are pretty good.  I wish they were more separate but they very nicely compliment the bass and only pick up a dash of warmth from them.  Vocals are for the most part nicely clean and unmolested.  Treble is alright, not super prominent which is wise.  They offer a fairly credible level of detail too it’s just not the most present treble ever.  When you push its abundance up then it’s not bad still, it does what it can to sand off the brutal edges and retain what details it can. 

Value:  Pretty damn good actually, you get a blindingly snappy phone that looks beautiful and is super responsive, sounds decent too with a most excellent screen.  For a price that’s pushing about half of what a more recent flagship costs.

Sound:  Going by when I got them sealed they were pretty good.  They were extremely bassy as you might expect from their price, they are going for a very mainstream populist sound signature.  So gobs and gobs of bass.  Not the most solid bass perhaps but big and weighty.  The mids are fine, clear and clean enough for pop like vocals to come through with.  The treble is a bit on the subdued and subtle side but if you’re pairing with a meh source and not the best bit rates the last thing you want is abundant crisp treble.  They are tuned exactly with their price tag and the likely pairings in mind.  Pairings including the listener and what music they are listening to too.  Over all its nothing that I can fault, it’s a styling choice.  Not one for me perhaps but I’d wager my sister would love these in spades.