Creative EP630 earphones Review…
Posted by Uma Damle | Filed under Uncategorized
Recently my brother and I were hunting around for a good pair of ear phones and after loads of research we settled on the Creative EP 630 in-canal (or in-ear) earphones which we got at a bargain for 910 bucks in Nehru Place.
These are the most rocking ear-phones I have ever used in my life including the iPod earphones which are quite useless when compared to this one. I don’t think anything apart from a Bose would make me change my opinion.
They have a neodymium driver for greater clarity,gold-plated 1.2m Oxygen-Free Copper cable provide uninterrupted transmission and soft silicon (Although I personally prefer foam) earbuds that come in three varying sizes for outstanding comfort and noise cancellation. Being In-canal they are greatly more comfortable than the other kind anyway.
The quality of the sound is truly pristine. Its so crystal clear that you can hear each and every note and instrument being played with excruciating intensity. It has a very good bass (Although not as good as they say it is, still, good enough). The music feels like it is being injected right into your brain.
The ear-phones do the noise cancellation part exceedingly well. With my earlier i-Ball earphones I had to put a pillow over my head, push the earphones right into my ears and the turn the volume all the way up to be able to hear anything at all.With these I can keep the volume pretty low even for soft music and not hear a gøddámnëd thing apart from the music. Really useful when my parents start their heard-only-about-42000-times lecture on how I shouldn’t waste my time writing dumb review that nobody (Or about 16000 people (stats of my last review)) is gonna read anyway. All I have to do is jack the earphones in my ears turn on the music and sport a look of mild interest while watching their lips move.
Coupla bad things about the earphones: You can’t move a step while you are using the earphones. If you do you actually feel (hear) the thumping of your feet on the ground over the music which is a big negative point for people like me who want to use the earphones while jogging and working out. Which brings me to the next point. My earlier phones had the wires forming a loop that you could hang around your neck so that the mp3 player remains suspended across it. These don’t and it took me a while to get used to holding my player in my hand all the time when I wasn’t sitting at my desk (My player can’t be hooked to the waist band of trousers and I dislike wearing the wrist strap). I inadvertently let go of player once or twice while sitting on the royal throne (Read:toilet seat) and almost dropped my mp3 player along with the ‘phones down the john.
These ear phones are truly excellent for acoustic music with good vocals, and heavy yet intricate music but not so much for out-and-out heavy metal and hard rock. This fact bothers me little ’cause I already prefer listening to such music on my speakers for two reasons. One being that I love my ears and having Marilyn Manson shriek right into my canals is not being very kind to them. Second is that my Creative 2500 Inspire 2.1 speakers are mind-blowing (As Prashanth would testify) and manage to rattle the whole house when just about anything is played on them. You just couldn’t ask for anything better for Heavy metal.
There are better earphones available out there but for this money you couldn’t get any better than this. I’d strongly recommend these to any audiophile who likes his music served well.
My verdict:7.6/10
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7 Responses to “Creative EP630 earphones Review…”
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August 18th, 2007 at 3:45 amApple used a batch of earphones which were manufactured by Sennheiser, and I still think those are the best ones.
Creative is not that well known for sound gear, Sennheiser is now Bose’s main competition. And the competition isn’t like the AMD-Intel competition where AMD is way ahead. They’re doing as well as each other.
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August 19th, 2007 at 8:03 amSennheiser and Bose are too expensive for just ear phones. I just checked them up in the internet, all of them cost above 100$. When you have an entire mp3 player for just 105$ (Miezu M6 MiniPlayer), buying earphones that expensive would pinch…
And AMD is way ahead…?? I thought you didn’t really support AMD after your nasty experience with the K6!
Anyway, let Phenom, Fusion, Torrenza and Barcelona come up, we will see whos boss then! -
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August 19th, 2007 at 9:13 amAbhishek-Apple fanatic-Nandkumar:Did I touch a nerve when I said iPod earphones aren’t much compared to these ones ;-).Prashanth precisely illustrated my point.Neither Seinheiser nor Bose fitted the budget.Bose’s in-canal ear phones cost about 5 grands in India.And despite them being a Bose, Digit said in its review of those ‘phones that if its good bass and clarity that you are looking for you might be better of with the Creative ones.I got a great deal for the money I paid and I’ll stick to these until the time somebody decides to gift me a Bose/Seinheisser.
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August 19th, 2007 at 2:06 pmThe Dooce effect?
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August 21st, 2007 at 2:05 amCreative earphones are really affordable and provide good sound. I have been using their ep480 earphones. It’s really value for money. It’s durable and allows me to listen to better bass. If price is not a problem, for higher quality I would recommend their aurvana in-ear earphones which is available in both black and white. The white one looks really classy to me.
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August 24th, 2007 at 11:14 amOops, I meant Intel is way ahead.
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