Logitech UE-SF5 EB Headphones
- Design: Ear Buds
- Usage: Professional
- Sound Mode: Stereo
- Connectivity: Cable
- Compatibility: Personal Audio
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Now With Super Bass-O-Matic!!
Pros
Very comfortable, mucho bass, efficient, good mids/highs
Cons
Bass can be overwhelming, don't fit in metal case
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
I'd buy these if you love bass OR you are confident of your ability to adjust your source equalization.
(Not to be confused with the Bass-O-Matic advertise don SNL.)
I'm quite sure that the guys at Ultimate Ears were getting feedback from customers about "weak bass" if the Super.Fi 5 Pro earphones are not inserted all the way into the ear canal to make a tight seal. This is the only way to explain the 5EB (expanded bass, enhanced bass, extra bass, extended bass, or whatever), the earphones that have so much bass that you don't have to insert them in the ear canal at all. Just getting them near your ear does the trick.
Seriously, the bass performance of the 5EBs is no mystery. Compare them to the regular 5s and you'll see that the enclosure is almost twice as big, which allows room for a bass-driver-on-steroids. The Ultimate Ears two-driver design is a great solution to the usual constraints of canal earphones, and the 5EBs just take advantage of the laws of physics: bigger bass driver = more bass. In fact, they are so big, that I can't get them into the nifty metal case that comes with them unless I take off the ear tips, which is a pain to do everytime.
So how do they sound? It's hard to do justice to them in words. Imagine, instead, that your brother-in-law has a really nice stereo system and it sounds pretty good. You enjoy listening to it. But some salesman at Audio-R-Us convinces him that he needs a huge subwoofer if he's gonna have "hi-fi" and be an audiophile. He spends a bunch of $$$ and installs the monster. Naturally, he wants it to make a big difference in the sound, so he sets the crossover point too high and turns the level way up. The mids and highs are still pretty good, but you are now sneaking over whenever he is out of the room and turning the unit down, or playing with the equalization to try to get it back to what it sounded like previously.
And that's what I have to do with the 5EBs. One big advanatge is that you get plenty of bass, even if the seal isn't perfect But if the seal to your ear is pretty good, you'll have to use every adjustment available to make the bass tolerable.
Strangely, the 5EBs seem to have virtually all the same features as the 5s, but they actually cost less.
As far as their other characteristics, they are, in my experience, some of the most comfortable in-the-ear earphones I've ever used. They are also quite efficient, considering the volume they are capable of.
I think I'd rather have the 5s, but the 5EBs are paid for and I'm not going to bother switching up (or over or down or whatever.)
UPDATE AUGUST 1 2006:
OK, it's been several weeks now. These are still the most comfortable earphones I have ever used. Once I got some adjustments made with my MP3 player's equalizer, the bass isn't TOO bad. But DO buy these babies for the fit. WOW!
I'm quite sure that the guys at Ultimate Ears were getting feedback from customers about "weak bass" if the Super.Fi 5 Pro earphones are not inserted all the way into the ear canal to make a tight seal. This is the only way to explain the 5EB (expanded bass, enhanced bass, extra bass, extended bass, or whatever), the earphones that have so much bass that you don't have to insert them in the ear canal at all. Just getting them near your ear does the trick.
Seriously, the bass performance of the 5EBs is no mystery. Compare them to the regular 5s and you'll see that the enclosure is almost twice as big, which allows room for a bass-driver-on-steroids. The Ultimate Ears two-driver design is a great solution to the usual constraints of canal earphones, and the 5EBs just take advantage of the laws of physics: bigger bass driver = more bass. In fact, they are so big, that I can't get them into the nifty metal case that comes with them unless I take off the ear tips, which is a pain to do everytime.
So how do they sound? It's hard to do justice to them in words. Imagine, instead, that your brother-in-law has a really nice stereo system and it sounds pretty good. You enjoy listening to it. But some salesman at Audio-R-Us convinces him that he needs a huge subwoofer if he's gonna have "hi-fi" and be an audiophile. He spends a bunch of $$$ and installs the monster. Naturally, he wants it to make a big difference in the sound, so he sets the crossover point too high and turns the level way up. The mids and highs are still pretty good, but you are now sneaking over whenever he is out of the room and turning the unit down, or playing with the equalization to try to get it back to what it sounded like previously.
And that's what I have to do with the 5EBs. One big advanatge is that you get plenty of bass, even if the seal isn't perfect But if the seal to your ear is pretty good, you'll have to use every adjustment available to make the bass tolerable.
Strangely, the 5EBs seem to have virtually all the same features as the 5s, but they actually cost less.
As far as their other characteristics, they are, in my experience, some of the most comfortable in-the-ear earphones I've ever used. They are also quite efficient, considering the volume they are capable of.
I think I'd rather have the 5s, but the 5EBs are paid for and I'm not going to bother switching up (or over or down or whatever.)
UPDATE AUGUST 1 2006:
OK, it's been several weeks now. These are still the most comfortable earphones I have ever used. Once I got some adjustments made with my MP3 player's equalizer, the bass isn't TOO bad. But DO buy these babies for the fit. WOW!
