Sony NW-WS414 is a wearable music player officially launched in 2016. Yes, it is not a headset, but a headset player. Compared with Sony Smart B-Trainer of All in One, NW-WS414 is a more pure music player. It does not have the function of collecting bracelets, but is just a convergence of MP3+earphones. Therefore, it is much cheaper than Smart B-Trainer in terms of price. Since it also has the highest waterproof level of IPX8, it is also a well-known product in the waterproof sports headset industry.
appearance
NW-WS414 has four different colors: black, white, green and yellow. The white NW-WS414 is used in this painting. NW-WS414 is a ring-shaped headworn design, and the wire hoop is made of skin like material, which is comfortable to wear. The elastic wire hoop can adapt to people with different head sizes.
NW-WS414 can be understood as a Smart B-Trainer without the bracelet function, so NW-WS414 is smaller in size and weight. In terms of modeling, NW-WS414 is still a linear design, which uses contacts to connect with adapters. There are volume keys, song cutting keys, power keys, Bluetooth keys, and voice broadcast function keys around the NW-WS414 headphones. When exercising and listening to music, we can directly adjust the volume by pressing keys, cutting songs, playing modes, etc.
After replacing the sealed in ear rubber sleeve, NW-WS414 can achieve the dust-proof and waterproof performance of IP68, and can guarantee a 30 minute immersion time under the water depth of 2 meters. We can safely wear and listen to music when we can swim.
NW-WS414 is equipped with multiple waterproof earplug rubber sleeves as standard
NW-WS414 standard contact adapter and USB data cable
experience
Whether it is NW-WS414 or Smart B-Trainer, Sony has not made them wireless sports headphones connected to mobile phones, but headworn players. In fact, this approach is a better solution for sports headphones: First, the headset is directly connected to MP3, which has the advantages of wireless headphones, but avoids the audio quality loss caused by Bluetooth transmission, and has a better audio experience; Secondly, since there is no need to connect to the mobile phone for use, and it is not necessary to carry the mobile phone, especially when running and swimming, it is a troublesome thing to carry the mobile phone with you.
For sports earphones, wearing is a link that greatly affects the user experience, especially in the case of strenuous exercise, such as fast running, the looseness of wired earphones is very obvious and easy to fall off, while in ear earphones are not loose, but it has caused an obvious stethoscope effect. As a headworn player, NW-WS414 can well avoid these two problems. The NW-WS414 is made of thick wire hoop material, with thick skin like material on the surface, and it is headworn, so the wire will not shake when running, and the stethoscope effect is avoided. It is very reliable to wear, and will not feel loose when jogging or running fast.
As our attention will be distracted from sports during sports, we tend not to choose lyric songs. At this time, we pay more attention to the music style, more flamboyant, and rock and roll songs. Therefore, the author selects aLIEz, LEVEL5 bridgelight, and Days as the tests.
ALIEz (ALDNOAH ZERO Animation)
Our first track is aLIEz, the nuclear explosion divine song among the four great divine tunes of Hiroyuki Kono. It can be said that the low frequency of the NW-WS414 is full, but the sense of volume will not be particularly big, and you will not feel loud. NW-WS414 has good elasticity. Although the low-frequency atmosphere is limited, it can retain the cohesion of aLIEz itself. ALIEz is a track that pays special attention to low frequency. The performance of NW-WS414 can spread its low frequency. Of course, you may not have such a profound feeling when you exercise. To put it simply, you can accompany the melody of Vietnam War and Yu Yong.
LEVEL5 bridgelight (a scientific super electromagnetic gun)
As a classic song of Pao Jie, LEVEL5 judgelight's position in the combustion industry is self-evident. It is still a very heavy bass song with girls who are easy to break the sound. Many wireless sports headphones are just for listening. It may be that the NW-WS414 uses a wired way to connect MP3 directly. The low frequency attenuation of the NW-WS414 is slow when playing. The density of girls is dense, not thin, and the high frequency has a sense of upward extension. The overall quality is at the level of 300~400 yuan earphones. However, you should know that the NW-WS414 is not a headset, but a headset player.
Days (symphonic poem)
Compared with LEVEL5 bridgelight and aLIEz, Days is indeed a light track, but it is still accompanied by many background sounds. There is a certain degree of separation between the voice of Days and the background sound. In addition, the prominent feature of the NW-WS414 intermediate frequency can clearly feel the voice has protrusion. On Days, the overall performance of NW-WS414 is fairly good, with less overtones at low frequencies, fine particles, sharp images, and strong transient expression of energy.
summary
For sports earphones, Sony has adopted this headworn player solution to get rid of the shortcomings of traditional sports earphones bundled with mobile phones. In fact, the NW-WS414 is a wired headset directly connected to MP3, with more guaranteed sound quality. In addition, IP68's waterproof characteristics and user-friendly price make it really easy for users to accept it as an audio device under sports. In fact, listening to music in sports is different from ordinary times. It pays attention to wear and sound insulation, and the requirements for sound quality will be reduced accordingly. For most people who only want to hear a sound when playing sports, the performance of NW-WS414 at this price is beyond the standard.
