OVERVIEW: Meizu HD50 - a better choice than from Apple Beats
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Just a couple of days for me to "test and check out the" hit overhead headphones Meizu HD50. This company is still little known in Russia under its own name. For the first time in the Russian market since it appeared players under the brand Ritmix, Get a good reputation for good quality sound, support for lossless and constantly updated firmware. After the company switched to the manufacture of touch phones and smart phones on its own operating system, has now become a superstructure Android.
Latest smartphones Meizu famous probably the best on the market sound quality for which the users are very fond of MX3 and MX4 Pro models (Objectively in terms of the "iron" their only competitor is considered to be the products of Chinese companies as Vivo, virtually inaccessible to Russia). HD50 headphones continue the manufacturer's policy: high-quality sound for a minimum of means. Of course, today headphones for $ 60 is hardly cheap. On the other hand, the execution of advertising campaigns and hinted that this model is positioned as a rival the Beats Headphones, have a much higher value (and, looking ahead, the worst quality sound).
Characteristics Meizu HD50
Type of | wired headset Headphones |
Design | foldable swivel |
frequency range | 20 Hz - 20 kHz |
Sensitivity | 103 ± 3 dB |
CED | ≤0,5% |
Impedance | 32 Ω |
materials | metal and synthetic leather |
Weight | 228 g |
Available colors | white and black |
Contents of delivery | headphones, 1.2-meter detachable cable with remote and mic, an adapter for 6.3mm connector, an adapter for connecting to the audio card, Carrying Case |
Design and equipment
The sturdy enough to carry "Mail of Russia" box listing all the specifications and even frequency response hides a small carrying case. In it - the headphones themselves, removable cable and a pair of adapters: with 3.5 mm mini-jack 6.3 mm jack and headset jack into two separate outputs for headphones and microphone. It is useful when using a computer with audio card.
Headphones, more precisely, the headset have foldable design. Cups rotate 90 degrees and fold inwards. Frame got on the review of the gray-black Meizu HD50 is made of brushed metal, due to which the headphones look very stylish, but at the same time have a significant weight. When wearing it practically it is not felt - the headband is designed very well. It is not pinched by the ears, and hold the cup firmly against. You should not worry - ambient music is not heard. So, in spite of a portable form factor, headphones Meizu HD50 can be used as a full-length. Cups and headband in the contact areas are covered with enough quality kozhzamom black. Ear pads are very high quality and have a memory effect.
All of the controls and microphone are located on the removable cable remote control. Cable, incidentally, is very durable, configured with quality of braided Kevlar (inside which the pure copper) and distinct plugs, all metal (gold), as does the control. The remote is equipped with three fully functional on the Android buttons with embossed labels for blind. The buttons are large, and their course otchotliv - pressed doubt arises.
Sound
Main feature Meizu HD50 - use 40-millimeter drivers with the company's unique (???) design, thanks to which the headphones should sound much better companions. The manufacturer claims that the quality of sound at 50-millimeter drivers, and in fact these are put on the larger models, including the monitor. Looking ahead, I say this move was justified. Incidentally, the membrane made of certain microbiological fibers and are designed to provide maximum benefits. Cups, which posted dynamics - with patented dual voice camera (theorize there may be quite a lot).
Testing headphones at home - a very subjective process. Mannequin for removing the amplitude-frequency characteristics of the phase difference and other parameters headphone without tools and materials can not be built, the room is extremely difficult to isolate it. The source used for the sounding reference Meizu MX4 Pro and desktop computer with a sound card 0404 Emu. All audio material, familiar to each note, - FLAC, 48 kHz.
Everyone's favorite warm carried out on the politically incorrect albums DubBuk - «Idu at Bi" (2002), Nocturnal Mortum - «World" (2005) and Drudkh group. To say that they sound good - to say nothing. Despite the fact that the drums in this albums strive to merge with the bass guitar, and vocals on some audio devices completely blasted guitars, Meizu HD50 does not let us down. Distinctly heard all the instruments, the music is not interrupted by vocal and interrupts him. Sibilance (an unpleasant whistle), almost always associated this kind of music, no. Testing should be performed listening to Therion - Secret Of The Runes (2002), with a small portion of neoclassical metal. Vocal sounds great, everything else - so as to sound the orchestra.
Very nice headphones proved themselves when playing various kinds of alternative music. For example, very sharply sounding Saykho Namtchylak quite beats on the ears, the headphones are fully disclose the range of her voice. Limp Bizkit, Godsmack, and other similar groups sound somewhat surprising, but also a pleasure: bass a lot, but they do not merge, not washed away, giving the listener full picture. Motograter and Godflesh swing. No other word to choose - the cleanest bass without distortion, tearing apart the ear. And on the background - great sounding high frequencies.
Similarly sounds and hip-hop, were tested for Ricochet albums, Cypress Hill, Everlast and Biohazard - good detail without separate frequency dips.
Sounds great and varied rock and roll, and even rockabilly (psychobilly). A plurality of models of modern headphones the bass frequencies too high range is converted into sound Bass peculiar unpleasant hum. Fortunately, Meizu HD50 does not suffer from this drawback and provide clearly hear me during a game setting slap palms when tapped on the hull. And this is quite dense, "dirty" guitar even such bands as Mad Sin and Horrorpops, not to mention the more traditional Stray Cats.
Blues and jazz sounds in the new Meizu elegant, though some may find that the bass still too high, and saxophones sound a bit as they should. This feeling disappears when addiction (or warm - as you like), and is non-refundable.
Results and competitors
We got to release Meizu very good headphones for dumping price - closest rivals significantly more expensive. Yes, of course, HD50 is a clear bias in the low frequencies, but with the included equalizer (to reduce the lowest frequencies), these headphones are suitable for any style of music. sound detail and breadth of the scene when listening to music in this model is excellent, really at the level of larger models. And thanks to the excellent design Meizu HD50 can take with you, without fear of break (perhaps this is the most durable headphones that I held in my hands). More and added.
Among the competitors can distinguish Xiaomi Mi Headphones. However, they are $ 20-30 more expensive, are made of cheaper materials and, prima facie, not worth the money. Other close analogs can be called Sony MDR-10 and AKG Y-Series. Both models, in my opinion, made of less sturdy materials and have less flexibility. Philips Fidelio line does not sound worse, but is much more expensive. notorious Beats sound significantly worse falling, unlike Meizu HD50, at high frequencies, and not having a crystal-sound, and are thus 3 times greater (at the time of writing the price of the headphones Meizu was $ 60 and the cost Beats Solo 2 - more than $ 150 when buying Russia).