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Hippo Foam Review

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Hippo brand had a great history of providing great performance products with a great affordable price. Now they came out with foam tips for IEM users. Hippo foam comes in 2 models, the H100 and H500, the difference of these 2 models are the fitting size is different, H100 fitting tube is smaller so that it can be fitted into IEM brands like Shure and Westone. This foam tips are priced at RM40 for 5 pairs. I am being told by Jaben staff that each pair could lasts for around 2 to 3 weeks. Before I start my review on these foams, I would like to thank Jaben Malaysia to give me a pair of sample to test it out. The foam i will be testing will be fitted into my Shure SE215 recabled version. Comfort and build The foams are no doubt extremely comfortable. In order to wear it properly, user will need to squeeze the foam to a smaller size before it is being inserted into the ear canal. The foam will slowly expand to fill up the canal space. It doesn't really isolate much noise compared ...

Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80Ohm Professional Headphones Review

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Okay here is it, the Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80Ohm Professional Headphones Review, before anything, let's have a look at it's technical details: Transducer type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dynamic Operating principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Closed Nominal frequency response . . . . . . . . . 5 - 35,000 Hz Nominal impedance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Ω / system Nominal SPL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 dB SPL Nominal T.H.D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . < 0.2% Power handling capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 mW Sound coupling to ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Circumaural Ambient noise isolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . approx. 18 dB(A) Nominal headband pressure . . . . . . . . . approx. 3.5 N Weight (without cable) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 g Length and type of cable 80 Ω version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 m / straight cable Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gold pla...

Sennheiser HD202 Review

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Got this Sennheiser HD202 from Jaben malaysia last few months, it's not my main headphones but my family desktop needs a personal audio but my family does not need a very good setup so I thought of buying this. This headphones cost around RM166. The build is pretty basic,everything is made of pastic and there is this kinda comfortable paddings on both side of the headphones and one on the top. From what I saw and feel, the padding quality is not that lasting, I got some comments from other users that their padding coating comes out after a certain time. In the package it includes a 3.5mm to 6.5mm adapter, so that you could plug into a HiFi or a Amplifier, a cable organiser an the headphones itself. This headphones really comfortable when you first put it on your head, it is light and the clamp is not that tight so you can't really feel anything when you are enjoying it. But after 30 minutes, your ears starts to sweat, because of it's PVC coating, it is kinda makes you...

Earn money from Facbook or Twitter

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Last few months I came across this awesome site called says.my. It's a Malaysia social advertising company, it allows users of Facebook and Twitter to earn money from it. Basically it's kinda easy to get involve in this program. First you need to sign up an account at says.my, either you can sign up manually or use your Facebook account to sign up. Say, after you had logged into your account, all you need is to share some interesting topics provided there. Notice in the picture above, each topic have a reserved amount for you and there is a earning per unique click, which means that each time after you shared to your twitter or Facebook, if your friend clicked it, you will get an amount of money that is stated there, but there is a reserved limit, so for each topic you will only get that certain amount of money. Don't worry though, because there are many new topics coming up everyday. You will need to earn at least RM50 before you can cash out. Like as for mine it's alr...

Hippo Box+ (Box Plus) Headphones Amplifier Review

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Before this review, I had: - Used this amplifier for more than 200 hours. - Used the default interconnect - All songs are ALAC format - Paired up with Hippo Shroom EB - Source is a PCM2704 USB DAC Unfortunately there are no technical information about this amplifier yet. This is my first review on an amplifier so do give me some correction if I state anything wrong here. :) Retail price: RM300 Design There are 3 colors available on the market if I'm not mistaken. Those 3 are silver, black and red. It is cased with a aluminum case and it feels very solid when you hold it in your hand, this is probably an improvement for the previous Hippo Box. If you all know, the previous Hippo Box Amplifier's input and output is on the same side, but in this Box+, the output is opposite of the input. I personally don't like the Box+ design, cause if you are going to put it in your pocket and your earphones' plug is not 'L' shaped, it might not su...

Beyerdynamic DT440 review

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Before I start this review, I had: - burned-in for more than 500 hours - iTunes -> PCM2704 USB DAC - no amplifier used - all test musics are ALAC format Technical Information - transmission type: Wired - Headphone design: Open - Impedance: 32ohms - Frequency response: 5~35000Hz - Nominal sound pressure level: 95db - Cable & plug: Straight cable with 3.5mm and 6.5mm adapter - Net weight without packaging: 350g The Beyerdynamic DT440 headphones is one of their entrance level of their HiFi grade headphones. The price of this headphones is around RM560. There are many other headphones are around this price like the Audio Technica AD500, Alessandro MS1i and Grado SR60i (If i'm not wrong). But in this review, there are no comparisons done. Design & Comfort I personally liked the design of this DT440, the top of the headphones are made of rubber like material while the other place is made of plastics. From the look and hands on of it, it ...

Hippo Shroom EB Earphones Review

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There is been a very long delay for this review to come out as there is some problems with the first Shroom EB that I got, luckily, Jaben Malaysia is willing to exchange one on one for me but that time there is limited stock with them, so I got to wait till recently, I exchanged and here is it, the review. *Please be noted that before I start this review, I had: Burn-ed in for at least 200 hours. iTunes with PCM2704 USB DAC and Nokia 5800 as my source No amplifier used in this review For packaging information, you guys can read it from my first post of this earphones at Hippo Shroom EB Earphones First Impression . Specifications: Single dynamic driver, 6mm Frequency range: 10Hz – 20KHz Impedance: 16Ohm Sensitivity: 95dB/mW Retail price: RM190 Alright, lets go into the design. The build quality I will not rate it as very good, one of the reasons is their cable for left earplugs and right earplugs can be not even, the first one the right cable is longer th...