Sony MDR-EX700

Sony MDR-EX700

Hi, this review is about Sony’s earphone MDR-EX700.

Manufacturer

Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka are the founders of Sony around 1946. Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was what they were originally called which is interpreted as Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering Company. Morita and Ibuka made a living by repairing radios and manufacturing voltmeters. These two were always designing and manufacturing new ...
...youngster.

Sony is a household name, everywhere you go, Sony is there. Mobile phones, earphones, microphones, TV, camera, cam recorder, video recorder, DVD recorder, the list goes on.


Design

The design is an in-canal headphone, simply the earphone goes in the canal rather than covering the ears. The earphones is pushed a few millimetres into the canal like an ear plug, this helps prevents external ... more

Sony MDR-EX700

Hi, this review is about Sony’s earphone MDR-EX700.

Manufacturer

Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka are the founders of Sony around 1946. Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was what they were originally called which is interpreted as Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering Company. Morita and Ibuka made a living by repairing radios and manufacturing voltmeters. These two were always designing and manufacturing new electronics. One of their first innovations was the automatic rice cooker that was successful.

This is what was put together to create the name Sony. The word sonus, meaning sound in Latin and the term sonny boy that was used in America, which mean bright youngster.

Sony is a household name, everywhere you go, Sony is there. Mobile phones, earphones, microphones, TV, camera, cam recorder, video recorder, DVD recorder, the list goes on.

Design

The design is an in-canal headphone, simply the earphone goes in the canal rather than covering the ears. The earphones is pushed a few millimetres into the canal like an ear plug, this helps prevents external noise coming in whilst listen to the sound coming from the earphones.

The MDR ex700 has the ability to help prevent distortion by a newly developed multiple layer diaphragm. This gives the pristine audio.

It comes with a 1.2 meter long cable, which is enough distance from your ears to your pockets.

Without the cable, the earphone weighs only 6 grams. Probably like holding a couple of grapes in your hand.

Sound Quality

The MDR-EX700 earphone has an amazing 16mm driver unit that gives flawless sound. Vocal and instrumental sounds will be clear to the ear drums enabling you to enjoy the music even more.

Many new earphone have a frequency range of 5 – 24,000 Hz, but the Sony’s MDR-EX700, the frequency is 4-28000 Hz. The quality stands out more than most other earphones.

Comfort

Sony seem to be changing it’s design to the hybrid silicone ear buds. It is to feel like a tailored fit so it feels comfortable. The MDR ex-700 comes with 7 different size of the newly developed super soft ear buds that is easily detachable and attached.

You may notice the shape of this earphone is different to many earphones, it is the new closed vertical in-ear design, it is to ensure maximum comfort and reduces vibration.

Price

Date: 01/10/09

Retail price is £169.99

Play.co.uk - £139.99.

amazon.co.uk - £120.99

Quite expensive in my opinion.

Website

This is the Sony’s website to view this product. You may find extra interesting fact.

http://www.sony.co.uk/product/hip-ex-series/mdr-ex700#pageType=Overview

I would recommend it, but its your decision. The price is high and the looks is not that great but if you want high quality, then the MDR EX700 has it for you.

Thank you very much for reading
 

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