Earbud with no bass considered defective?

[orangecat]

So the other day my father bought himself a pair of Sennheiser earbuds for work and they have zero bass (when i say zero i mean 400hz and below is 100% non existant). They sound so bad because of the lack of bass they they are unusable. Would these earbuds be considered defective? I assume the drivers inside are rubbing up on something stopping them from producing any bass but listening to just mids and highs is really not fun to listen to at all. Keep in mind he paid 100$ for then and the earbuds that came with his iphone blow them away.

 

I never expected such a crappy product from Sennheiser.

 

These are what he bought...

 

http://en-ca.sennheiser.com/sport-headset-in-ear-earphones-running-jogging-workouts-ocx-685i

[LemonSpice]

So the other day my father bought himself a pair of Sennheiser earbuds for work and they have zero bass (when i say zero i mean 400hz and below is 100% non existant). They sound so bad because of the lack of bass they they are unusable. Would these earbuds be considered defective? I assume the drivers inside are rubbing up on something stopping them from producing any bass but listening to just mids and highs is really not fun to listen to at all. Keep in mind he paid 100$ for then and the earbuds that came with his iphone blow them away.

 

I never expected such a crappy product from Sennheiser.

es if ther is non than it is what ones are they could be fakes

[TheKDub]

I'd say I'd just consider them to be shitty if there is no bass.

[Toddwjp]

well go to the product page, check the rated frequency, if they quote lower then there defective and get another pair or a refund

[DigitalHermit]

Check your signal source...

Return them if the source is not the problem...

[orangecat]

I'd say I'd just consider them to be shitty if there is no bass.

But Sennheiser is a pretty reputable brand and they cost 100$ I would expect some bass response considering the spec sheets lists them down to about 20hz or so.

[orangecat]

Check your signal source...

Return them if the source is not the problem...

Checked on both my s4 mini and his iphone and even with extreme bass boost they sound like ass.

[TheKDub]

But Sennheiser is a pretty reputable brand and they cost 100$ I would expect some bass response considering the spec sheets lists them down to about 20hz or so.

 

Then most likely they are defective, I'd return em for different ones if I was you.

[orangecat]

Then most likely they are defective, I'd return em for different ones if I was you.

Since he opened them best buy wont take them back he has to go to sennheiser.

[TheKDub]

Since he opened them best buy wont take them back he has to go to sennheiser.

 

Then do that.

[Lutkeveld]

spec sheets lists them down to about 20hz or so.

 

Almost every specsheet does. It has no meaning without measuring details (-3db?, -10db?).

Every headphone has 20hz output. But if its much lower than the output on 100hz, you can't hear it clearly when listening to music.

[ShearMe]

Where did he buy them? Are they genuine? Fakes are abundant....

[spwath]

Where did he buy them? Are they genuine? Fakes are abundant....

Looks like best buy from reading the thread

[orangecat]

Almost every specsheet does. It has no meaning without measuring details (-3db?, -10db?).

Every headphone has 20hz output. But if its much lower than the output on 100hz, you can't hear it clearly when listening to music.

They wouldn't list down to 18hz if it was -90db. Besides technically speaking every headphone can output 1hz if it wanted to.

[Lutkeveld]

They wouldn't list down to 18hz if it was -90db. Besides technically speaking every headphone can output 1hz if it wanted to.

 

You'd think right? The industry standard is -3db (2x), I consider -10db (10x) the usable frequency response limit.

Take a look at some frequency response graphs (measured by HeadFi for example) and compare them to the specs. 

But because the way you think (no offense) they keep doing it. If they would list 50hz a lot of people won't buy them because almost all the others list ~20hz.

Only very serious audio companies list their graphs and real specs.