Hello. This is Kojima from Ohsu Main Store. Well, I know it's sudden, but here is the advertisement. We have started the over-the-counter sale for ER-4S, ER-4P, ER-6 and ER-6i the ETYMOTIC RESERCH earphone and E3c and E2c the SHURE earphone at Ohsu Main Store. Taking this occasion, we would like to offer a wide range of not only secondhand but also brand new articles from now on in order to provide high quality and high performance goods to our customers. Here goes the 3rd report on "Hi-Fi Earphones" today. It's the final report! The item I would like to introduce is "QUALIA" the SONY earphone from our country. |
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This earphone is one of the "QUALIA" line of Sony. Its model number is MDR-EXQ1. Originally it was a earphone coming with Q017-MD1(189,000 yen - 315,000 yen) the QUALIA portable MD player whose production and marketing started in 2004 though, they launched the production and sale of this earphone itself since it got quite popular. |
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I heard that they received a high volume of orders right after they launched the production and sale. Not only this product, can't they mass-produce the QUALIA products since all of them are make-to-order production. Maybe depending on the product though, they can only produce this earphone 10 or a bit more per month. You know after all, one highly-selected meister handles all the process including the tone control. So it was normal to wait for 2 to 3 months to receive the product. In some very extreme cases, people couldn't even order the product at certain times. I bought it this summer and didn't have to wait to get it though. |
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The housing part of this earphone is made of brass, and its texture feel is very good. You can see it right away when you touch it. It feels with a thud. The difference of the texture between this and MDR-EX51 the mass-production model on the right in the picture is obvious even in the picture. Basically the sound quality seems to have a characteristic of subdued ear-piercing sound pressure of 4 - 10kHz though, this earphone subdues the overmuch bass volume coming from the mass-production models. And instead, the beautiful stretched sound in low range comes out from this earphone. But this earphone is far inferior in the seal-up feel to the aforesaid two models. You will hear outside noises directly. This kind of aspect is totally the same as the familiar models. |
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However it is the best among three models in terms of the material texture. The accompanying leather case is satisfactory in texture. I knew this is from the "QUALIA" line. The price of this make-to-order production is 21,000 yen. Well, this topic I reported 3 times in total finishes this time though, I would like to introduce good quality earphones or headphones from time to time in the future. |