Being the cynic I am, on seeing Atomic Floyd’s packaging boast that its HiDefDrum AcousticSteel earphones are “the pinnacle of world class acoustics” I couldn’t help but feel a little driven to disagree. Such preconceptions may not be fair but, when innumerable emails a day (ones that aren’t offering to sell me illicit hallucinogens or resize various body parts) claim whatever product they’re touting to be the bees knees, cat’s pyjamas and dogs… proverbials, a little scepticism is par for the course.With the Atomic Floyd earphones, though, I was for once pleasantly surprised to have my preconceptions proved a misconception. Because, as it happens, the HiDefDrums aren’t rubbish at all - far from it in fact.
Notably the HiDefDrums are not canal-phones, despite the fact that in-ear models seems to be the design of choice these days. Instead the ‘phones twin driver arrangement consists of an inner nib which points into the canal handling mid and high end sounds and an outer bass port which, as the name suggests, deals with lower frequency audio.
1 comments:
April 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM
******DO NOT PURCHASE A SET OF ATOMIC FLOYD'S*****
I purchased a set of earphones from the Atomic Floyd website in January.
Within 6 weeks the sound cut in and out from both speakers and I emailed Atomic Floyd requesting a refund.
The UK dispatcher initially replied stating that they normally offer replacements but for a refund he would have to check with the founder and come back to me.
After 3 weeks of me chasing for an update by email, I have heard no response.
This company are a joke and once they have your money, you are left with a set of earphones that will almost definitely break (due to the 'cord to straight jack' design).
Although the website suggests that they are a UK company (prices advertised in Sterling), they appear to be Hong Kong based and there is no 'real' customer support.
What a waste of £85
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