Altec Lansing inMotion iM716 Headphones by Altec Lansing
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Digital camera reviews of Altec Lansing inMotion iM716 Headphones
Digital camera Review: AWESOME Sound.
Summary: 4 Stars
These phones are not for everyone. You can see by the number of reviews panning the iM716 that some people either can't stand putting stuff in their ears or just weren't patient enough to get the proper seal. In either case it's good that most retailers offer a money-back guarantee on purchases from them.
I use an Etymotic in-ear headset with my home phones. It's the greatest thing--you can talk for long periods without getting 'phone ear.'
If I could have afforded the Ety ER-4 I would have bought them. But then I would have missed out on Altec Lansing's excellent iM616.
Yes, I said iM616, not iM716.
The 716 has that atrocious volume control thingy in the cord. It flops around, gets in the way, and causes a lot of noise to be transmitted through the physical wire of the headset into your ears. It sounded great, though. I returned it.
I then bought the iM616--the identical headset without the inline volume control. I'm perfectly happy controlling the volume from my Zen.
The sound and microphonics issues are otherwise similar between the 616 and the 716--except that you don't have to lug that stupid volume control around by your ear canals and it's not forever hitting stuff and transmitting that noise to your ear canals.
I use a homebuilt dual-9v headphone amp designed on a modified Chu Moy circuit to allow for the two batts. Even with double batteries, the whole thing still fits in the standard Altoids tin. It puts out plenty of punch to power these phones. If you have a pair, you know your DAP or Walkman or whatever cannot power these things to anything over very tame listening levels. Furthermore, the levels you can listen at without additional amplification are constrained by insufficient power.
Enter the Chu amp--or your favorite headphone amplifier. Even if you don't crank up the volume to ear-damaging levels, you will find gigantic improvements in the sound of your headphones by using a good headphone amp. With inefficient phones like these, the amp is practically mandatory. Good thing it and your player will still fit in a single pocket of a backpack.
Sound is good enough to make me forget about purchasing the ER-4. Got these 616s $46 shipped. Sucha deal.
So if you're obsessive about sound and want to fool around with headphone amps and such, you will just love these.
Digital camera Review: Almost perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
These earphones are great quality. The sound is good and they fit comfortably in the ear once you get used to them. Two minuses make them only 4 out of 5 stars: first, the customer support is weak. There is supposed to be a website for the product for customer support and replacement parts, but Altec Lansing his it linked to a seemingly unrelated product; second, the volume control is a little heavy unless you have somewhere to clip it to (this might be a problem for runners).Digital camera Review: Amazing Headphones
Summary: 5 Stars
The design is been strange, definity might not fit well for anyone. The most amazing thing about this headphone is offered feature called HD, which really does work depend the quality of audio. However the audio has static sound you can also heard those as well, but you can hear thing u never heard before, the strong point is the vocal, heard clearly as well, major cons is nearly no bass support. But no headphone this size good in bass anyway. Has nice volume control and clip good for running. Perfect for classical music.Digital camera Review: Bargain sound
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought these for $50 from the "used and new" link; at that price,they are 1/7 the list price of the Etymotic ER4P they resemble, and 1/4 their discount price.
At first I thought they sounded tinny and I had trouble fitting them in my ear canal.
I burned them in for 24 hours (someone recommends 7 days) and the sound warmed up a lot. I found the flange eartips give better sound than the foamies. Moistening them made insertion better.
Now I am getting really nice sound from them for the price. In Bass mode, Bass, tremble, clarity, transient response, detail.
Compared to the Sennheiser PC 166 USB, handy for comparison, it is much better in Bass mode all qualities mentioned above. The headset has a slightly warmer presence for male vocals and a very little more efficiency. In HD mode, it is significantly less efficient and bass is much less, less than the 166, but the male vocal is warm and present. I suspect the Bass mode introduces some small distortions in the bass response.
I have read that the Etymotic ER88-50 filters and the ER61-18 eartips available on the etymotic website fit the IM716. Other accessories look like they would work. Good info as Altec Lansing may no longer market these.
Digital camera Review: Best Headphones I've Ever Used
Summary: 5 Stars
After using my iM716s for about 4 months now I have a few things to say about them.
1) Price: Lists for $199 on Altec's site. $70 is a steal.
2) Quality: Top notch in the earphones, the clip on the volume module is weak.
3) Performance: Bar none best I've had. These things outperform the huge Logitech ear muff set I use mainly to mow in. These things allow me to mow the lawn without having to jack up the volume to drown out the mower.
4) Conclusion: The only thing that stops me from saying these are perfect is the volume module can be a pain and get in the way. When moving around, you NEED to have it clipped to something, otherwise it can create inner ear noise. This can get quite annoying. I've also caught the cord on things, causing the clip to bend away from the module. It is removeable and I was able to bend it back. If there were a pair of equal quality w/o the module, even for the same price, I'd go that route. With that said, I am in no way regretting my purchase and will recommend these to anyone asking me about them or my 60GB video ipod.