Let the ear fall in love with listening to music -- Trial report of Skullcandy Strum earphone

[Preface]

"The high pitch is sweet, the middle pitch is accurate, and the low pitch is deep. In a word, it is transparent." I still remember that in the movie Infernal Affairs, A Ren (Liang Chaowei) and Police Officer Liu (Liu Dehua) ran into each other in an audio store. They sat together quietly listening to Cai Qin's "The Forgotten Time", and the preceding sentence was what A Ren said to Police Officer Liu before listening to the song. The plot impressed me deeply. I even fell in love with Cai Qin's songs. To tell the truth, good music is fascinating and pleasant, but good music also needs a good headset. Recently, I had a chance to try Skullcandy Strum earphones, and found that the music can really sound so good.

[Appearance. Chapter]

▲ Skullcandy Strum's overall packaging adopts black and white colors, which, together with the logo of the skull, gives a feeling of being very low-key and mysterious. This American style of hippie packaging is also very consistent with its design philosophy as an American company.

▲ Skullcandy is a brand that pursues sound quality, fashion, quality and ultimate design. Today, Skullcandy earphones have ranked first in sales in the United States, and its products have also been sold in more than 80 countries around the world.

▲ The side of the package is a partial enlarged view of the product. The sign of the skull is very eye-catching. It always shows its unique brand culture.

▲ The back is the detailed information of the product. The content is very detailed, consistent with the consistent style of international brands, and also the requirements of multiple product logos abroad.

▲ Skullcandy, as the most fanatical supporter of extreme sports, fashion, music and other fields, is deeply followed, loved and recognized by many young consumer groups.

▲ What I received was a black earphone. At present, the official offers three colors for selection: royal blue, piano black and ceramic white. I feel that black is more in line with the creativity and positioning of its brand.

▲ This earphone is mainly made of chrome plated mirror surface and black skin like rubber material. It has a delicate feel and a special friction feeling, which can meet the comfort of wearing for a long time.

▲ This Skullcandy Strum earphone is equipped with Skullcandy's three patented technologies, Brinx technology, Off Axis centrifugal shaft technology and FixTech fixing technology. It ensures the restoration and presentation of its perfect sound quality.

▲ The earplug part of the Strum earphone presents an arc angle with the main body. This design designs the ear mouth part that contacts the ear canal as a movable part, so that the ear canal of any shape can feel the most comfortable wearing feeling. It is more convenient for the earphone to be inserted into the ear canal, and at the same time, it makes the earphone fit more perfectly with the ear canal, ensuring the sound insulation effect while further enhancing the stability and comfort of wearing.

▲ The Fix Tech technology used in the construction of this earphone should be a fixation technology applied to Fix in ear earphones at the earliest. By designing a hook shaped appearance in the lower part of the chamber and matching it with the perfect cut angle of the Off Axis ear socket, the hook shaped part of the chamber will fit with the V-shaped ear groove of the user's ear, and this design can not only improve the stability of the earphone in the ear, It can also resist a certain degree of traction, pulling and other external forces.

▲ It is understood that this earphone is equipped with a closed 9mm driver with Suprme sound technology, which can make the bass of the earphone more powerful, and can bring natural, wide range voice and accuracy. My experience is that this headset is really suitable for mobile phone users. This is also the same as the original intention of RICK ALDEN, the founder of the brand, when he founded the brand, which was born for extreme sports.

▲ In order to prevent the annoying problem of headphone cable entanglement, this Skullcandy Strum headphone specially uses a flat headphone cable to avoid entanglement. I feel very good about daily use.

▲ In addition, the headset line is also equipped with a three button microphone wire control that can be compatible with all mobile phone types, which can quickly realize calls, music, volume and other operations. This design brings convenience to the mobile phone and further increases the user's stickiness.

▲ The manufacturer provides users with spare earphones that can adapt to people with different ear canal structures. The smaller earphones are more suitable for women to wear, which reflects the humanized design of the manufacturer.

[Sound quality perception. Chapter]

▲ "A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets". Similarly, everyone has different subjective feelings about the sound quality, even different feelings at different times and in different moods. Therefore, it is difficult to use a unified standard to measure the quality of a headset. Here, I will just describe the experience of this headset with my own experience and feelings. This Skullcandy Strum headset gives the author the impression that it is very suitable for playing and listening to pop music. Especially in vocal reproduction, the author feels particularly transparent.

▲ The author mainly uses Samsung S5 and Apple 5S as playback devices. The listening music is mainly English pop songs, such as Adele Adkins's Hello, Chasing Pavements, Michael Jackson's Thriller, We Are The World, Eagles' Hotel California and other songs, interspersed with Cai Qin's Ferry, Forgotten Time, Beyond's Brilliant Years, Like You and other Chinese songs.

▲ Thanks to the Brinx technology, Off Axis centrifugal shaft technology and FixTech fixation technology adopted by Skullcandy Strum, the comfortable wearing experience can really greatly improve the sense of hearing from the touch. The perfect ergonomic design not only makes the earphone better fit in the ear socket, but also provides better sound insulation effect, providing an excellent listening environment for music listening. In the process of wearing and auditioning, the feeling of being on the spot is particularly strong. Especially in vocal reproduction, Skullcandy Strum has a good grasp of the voice characteristics of different voice lines. The bass is sufficient and has strong flexibility. The excessive tone is also very smooth and harmonious, with a good sense of hierarchy.

▲ As soon as the singer opens his voice, he can feel that his low-frequency energy is very abundant, but there will not be too much low-frequency energy. At the same time, his voice range is relatively wide. The sound was deep, but no turbidity was felt. When listening to the "Forgotten Time", the exquisite voice is restored, as if the singer is near the ear, even the breath can be felt.

▲ Skullcandy Strum is a mid-range headset designed for mobile phone use, so in terms of tuning, it is also mainly close to popular music. The control of the mid-range voice line is good. In the listening experience, the sound field is very open for the positioning of the voice, but it does not make the listener feel too far away. The listening feeling is very comfortable.

▲ However, the author feels that the performance of high-frequency is not ideal. Although high-frequency has a certain degree of extension, the voice line is not beautiful enough.

▲ Of course, the experience of sound varies from person to person. Everyone has different cognition and understanding of music, so the feeling of sound quality will also be different.

▲ The most impressive feeling of the author in the experience is the comfort of wearing. I can hardly feel the squeezing feeling brought by traditional earplugs, but the good sound insulation effect creates a better closed environment for users to enjoy music. Such sound characteristics can be released in such a small cavity, which fully demonstrates Skullcandy's rigorous brand concept and strong technical strength.

[Conclusion. Chapter]

▲ Skullcandy STURM is a mid-range headset product targeted at mobile phones. Its performance in terms of sound quality is beyond my expectation. It does not reduce the user experience because of positioning the mid end. Instead, Brinx technology, Off Axis centrifugal shaft technology and FixTech fixing technology are perfectly integrated into the product design, which greatly improves the sound quality of the headset, and is more in line with the ergonomic design, which is impressive in terms of wearing comfort. At the same time, with the help of Skullcandy's professional manufacturing technology, the music has been better restored.

▲ Maybe everyone has different feelings about music and different requirements for sound quality, but I would like to say that this Skullcandy STURM achieves the best balance. The best feeling of the author is that the high pitch is sweet, the middle pitch is accurate, and the low pitch is deep. If you have high requirements for music, and prefer to use mobile phones as playback devices, but do not want to pay an expensive price to buy a professional headset, then this Skullcandy STURM is a good choice for mid end positioning. Music has no borders. The sound quality is different. Love music. I think you can start with this Skullcandy STURM.