To tell the truth, there is so much "chaos" in the current domestic headphone circle that you will often find a brand that has never been heard of and seems to be playing hot! In fact, to be objective, unless you are really a "ear burning" user, generally few people can understand the various directions of the headphone ring very well, and now as long as you have some experience of "ear burning", if you have a little extra money, it is not difficult to build your own "brand" of headphones, because there are some enthusiastic headphone fans around, For the ideal in my heart, I burn money to create a brand! Such earphone brand may not be famous, but its quality is not inaccessible!

Because in my opinion, earphone itself is a "metaphysical" thing! If you say you have it, you will have it. If you don't have it, you will be empty! Different people, different mood! Macaw, an emerging HiFi earphone brand, was founded in 2014 and launched the GT100s in January 2015 at a price of 399 yuan. As an entry-level bass HiFi earphone, it has been favored by many "grassroots" users since its launch! And the final actual performance is really worthy of this price. The comments from netizens are almost unanimous! This time, the author will experience this Maige GT600s loop iron HiFi in ear wired headset, which is an upgraded version of the GT100s!

Packaging and Design

As a 500 yuan ring iron HiFi, I really don't have much "expectation" for it. It's not that I don't have confidence in the brand or products, but sometimes the principle of "one price, one product" is really difficult to overcome! So when I saw a little bit of crude packaging, I actually felt a little bit "secretly happy"! The reason is that if the cost of a 500 yuan headset is too much spent on packaging, the headset will have little to look forward to!

After opening the pullout box, I saw the earphone body and various accessories. I went to find the packaging style of the GT100s. I found that the GT100s uses transparent plastic shells. Objectively, I prefer the packaging style of the GT100s!

The headphone cable is hidden under the headset (the headphone cable of the Maige GT600s uses the pluggable DIY mode). The Maige GT600s is equipped with three pairs of silicone earplugs of different sizes as standard, and two pairs of memory cotton earplugs! This is similar to the Maige GT100s.

In addition to the pluggable headphone cable, the Maige GT600s also features an exchangeable tuning nozzle design! Users can choose different color tuning nozzles to make slight changes in the sound quality of the whole headset! Black tuning mouth is suitable for some bass performance music, silver belongs to omnipotent daily songs, while gold is exclusive classical and unaccompanied music. In fact, if you are a "wooden ear", you may not be able to understand the difference between the three sound mouths objectively, but as a headset with DIY sound quality, the GT600s is very considerate!

Both the earphone body and several tuning nozzles are made of austenitic 316 stainless steel. In terms of process, the MIM process of metal injection molding is adopted. This process is to heat the stainless steel to 1300 degrees for one-time injection molding! The wall thickness of ear shell is less than 0.5mm. There is a small piece of 2.5D curved glass on the front, and the inside is a "sound and motion" logo of Maige, which is very good in appearance and style!

The Maige GT600s adopts the MMCX pluggable cable replacement scheme, which provides a great space for subsequent earphones to DIY themselves! The high versatility of the coaxial MMCX interface corresponds to the insertion of the left and right channels, and the convex blind touch point is on the left, which corresponds to the left earphone! Oxygen free copper wire is made of single 25 core and four 100 core braids, which can effectively reduce the wire impedance and reduce the loss of audio signal in the transmission process! The plastic sheath outside the wire is a little hard, but the surface is smooth and wear-resistant! So the long-term durability performance should be good! The end of the wire has a transparent ear hook, which can effectively reduce the "stethoscope" effect!

In other details, the junction head and 3.5mm plug adopt the same stainless steel design as the main body of the earphone. In order to ensure long-term use, the tail of the plug has a special plastic buffer sleeve, which can effectively decompose the shaking friction between the wire and the plug during use, so as to ensure that the earphone wire will not be worn or broken after long-term use!

Simple comparison

Through the appearance comparison with several earphones, the headset cable of the Maige GT600s is tough, but it is the most reliable of several earphones in terms of actual touch and extensibility! In short, the most durable one! However, compared with soft plastic and woven nylon, the hand feel will be lacking! And in terms of the main tone, the pulse song GT600s is also the heaviest! After all, the whole thing is made of stainless steel, so it's also stressful to hang it on your ears! However, I think it has a tough style and is very suitable for male users who like this kind of feeling!

About sound quality

Although it is only a 500 yuan level HiFi earphone, it does not sound "shabby"! The combination of iron motion+metal dynamic coil diaphragm unit enables the headset to achieve balanced performance in dynamic and analytical force! The combination of the deep feeling of dynamic coil in low frequency performance and the "brittleness" of dynamic iron in high frequency performance has greatly improved the richness of sound expression of earphones!

The impedance of some common audio devices, such as walkman headphones, is 16 Ω - 64 Ω. In general, the impedance of earphones is the largest at low frequencies, and the attenuation at low frequencies is greater than that at high frequencies. If the impedance is too high, the sound of earphones will sound somewhat chaotic. Therefore, for example, CD, MD, or MP3, low impedance earphones (usually less than 50 ohms) will be used. This is because these low impedance earphones are relatively easy to drive. At the same time, attention should be paid to high sensitivity. For walkman, MP3, MP4, and CD, sensitivity indicators are more important. Of course, to a certain extent, earphones with high impedance have better sound effects when matched with sound sources with high output power.

The impedance of the Maige GT600s is 16 Ω, and its most direct performance is that it has very low requirements for sound generating equipment! In other words, we often say that the thrust requirement is low. With its 3.5mm earphone plug, almost just an ordinary mobile phone can easily enjoy the fun of music! However, what needs to be mentioned here is that the performance of the pulse song GT600s is very ordinary after listening to it, and the sound quality is very sticky and muddy! At one time, the author lost the passion of experience, but according to experience analysis, it may have some impact on the machine, so the author then conducted more than 1000 minutes of machine burning. After a period of machine burning, the real strength of the Maige GT600s gradually emerged!

In terms of sensitivity, the Meige GT600s is only 98dB. The higher the sensitivity, the greater the sound output. The lower the impedance, the higher the sensitivity. The lower the impedance, the more obvious the bottom noise (clutter signal noise and machine running noise) will be emitted from the headset. The listening effect will be compromised and the internal structure of the ear, such as the cochlea, will be damaged. The Maige GT600s belongs to low sensitivity and low resistance. It is a typical Walkman, MP3 and mobile phone companion! Perfect for these front ends!

In terms of high frequency, the details of the pulse song GT600s are relatively rich and balanced. When the tone is high, the timbre will not feel too bright. There is no "Si Si" of Zaer, but the high frequency extension performance cannot meet my requirements. In terms of female soprano songs, although there is no burning sense, the separation effect between voice and background is ordinary! There is no obvious sense of compression in terms of dynamic performance. The sense of speed controls the regularity, but lacks some penetration. When the high frequency transitions to the middle frequency and the middle frequency transitions to the low frequency, the fusion between different bands is a little chaotic, but I think this has something to do with not yet fully open!

I should be most satisfied with the performance of the IF part! No matter the instrument or the voice, the performance distortion is very small, and the front and rear sound fields are relatively clear. In fact, the difference between the three colors of the mouth is not particularly obvious in the sense of hearing, but I personally prefer the gold mouth. When I listen to some symphonies, I have a good sense of presence, transparent and warm voice, but due to low sensitivity, The feedback effect of some subtle sound changes is relatively general. In general, the mid-range performance has a cleaner bottom sound, which is more palatable to the public!

Then to the middle and low frequency performance, you need to cooperate with the black voice mouth to experience! The diving performance can only be described as satisfactory. Although it is not boring, it always feels that the lower potential is not enough. Because the Maige GT600s belongs to low sensitivity and low resistance earphones, in fact, whether it is high-frequency or low-frequency, the performance will not be particularly surprising! It is more suitable for use with mobile phones and some low thrust front ends. It should be said that it belongs to a very harmless "popular voice"! So it's not surprising that Maige GT100s succeeded earlier!

To sum up

The Maige GT600s belongs to low sensitivity and low resistance earphones, so combined with 3.5mm headphone jack, it becomes the best partner of various common devices! If the 500 yuan HiFi headset is really hyped up, who will believe it? I don't believe it anyway! So it needs to be objective. In general, triple frequency performance is a very reliable standard score. No obvious advantages, but no obvious disadvantages! But the all-in-one sound chamber made of stainless steel, the MMCX pluggable cable replacement scheme and three different designs of replaceable sound nozzles are really amazing! This is one of the main reasons why I am interested in it! The selection of high-quality wire materials in combination with the ear hook design also minimizes the stethoscope effect commonly existing in such earphones. After all, the MMCX pluggable cable can give you more room for DIY, which greatly improves the playability compared with ordinary earphones! So in general, the Maige GT600s loop iron HiFi in ear wired earphone is an entry-level loop iron earphone worth getting, and its performance is definitely beyond its price!

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