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By changing earphones will it help? p990i |
kleyzam
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I recently bought a p990i and experienced very low volume with the earphones provided in the p990i's package especially in loud places where u barely hear a thing. I was considering of buying an adapter to plug in the earphones i had from my p910i, my only concern ..this may be a noob question but is the problem coming from the headset itself or is the phone the main concern? |
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chrisperro
Joined: Jun 01, 2006
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yes it will make a huge diference,the p990 headphones are old and not good at all,just get a connector and use your own.
Thats the first thing i did when i got my p990 and my k750.
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kleyzam
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thanks a lot  |
michael the mage
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I will say out of my own experience: it will NOT help! This low volume is a plague and I have that with several different p990s and different headsets (cable!!!).
That is why I use only Bluetooth sets where the volume is loud and clear!
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Nickp990
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ys absolutli agree with u michael i think same way too.
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spitfire14
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the difference will be night and day in my experience, i ditched the stock earphones after a day and bought the hpm 82, the sound was good enough but i was not yet satisfied and got a sennheiser mx400, now i'm satisfied, so i'd say yes get an adaptor and plug your fave earphones |
michael the mage
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The sennheiser is that a powered one? Why should it boost the volume otherwise?
What would be the difference compared to the SE ones? One the technical side that is?
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spitfire14
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i'm not really an audiophile but based on my observation the senns sound a bit louder with bass and treble more pronounced, especially with the megabass on, which had little effect when i used the hpm82...
the mx-400 is just a midrange earphone by the senns so i expect the high-end ones to be better... maybe for audiophiles the p990i or changing the earphones may not be good enough, but for a casual listener like me the sound is good enough, and there is definitely a marked improvement than using the standard headset that came in the box... hope this helps |
jesal
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am using w810i headphones with the p990i works decent |
ks13
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if you are into music, mp3 then you should forget about using the P series phones by SE. the are just not designed to give good sound. this is out of my own experience when i switched from w810 to p990. now i am back to using a walkman phone cos i realised that it is music that i treasure. currently using w660 |
wrecked_porsche
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If you want loud sound, you have to use headphones with lower impedance. Get one that is about 32 Ohms. The lower it is, the more loudness u can get from it.
Or you could get a headphone amp such as the XIN supermini/supermacro or RSA tomahawk or Meier headsix. They are very small and portable amps for headphones.
Oh and yeah the P990 mp3 quality sucks (IF you're an audiophile like me, that is). Even the Walkman phones don't cut it for me. IMHO, they suck too. Well I guess that's what happens when you've had a taste of the audiophile world. There is no turning back. (sorry to go off topic here)
To the OP, get a connector and use different headphones, they really help improve things. Or get a headphone amp. Hope my post was helpful in some way.
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On 2007-09-05 17:56:14, michael the mage wrote:
The sennheiser is that a powered one? Why should it boost the volume otherwise?
What would be the difference compared to the SE ones? One the technical side that is?
I've tried everything: I changed the original ones with Sennheiser, I've chnaged those (to no avail) with a W200i pair with Bass Reflex and it's still low. I will try a pair of BT ones. Which ones should I try?
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spitfire14
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On 2007-11-05 06:46:20, ks13 wrote:
if you are into music, mp3 then you should forget about using the P series phones by SE. the are just not designed to give good sound. this is out of my own experience when i switched from w810 to p990. now i am back to using a walkman phone cos i realised that it is music that i treasure. currently using w660
the p990 actually uses the same mp3 player used in the w800 (walkman ver1) , its just a marketing strategy to brand them "walkman phones," tested them both and they're of the same quality, dont know about those walkman ver2...
... i agree with the other post though, if you are an audiophile, walkman branded or not, you won't be satisfied, theres nothing like a dedicated gadget if you dont mind the extra equipment... |
wrecked_porsche
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Well, you could always take a voltmeter to check the impedance on the stock earphones. I'm not sure what the impedance is, but if its rather high, then there is only two ways to go about it, get a lower impedance headphone or get and mini headphone amp(like those 3 i suggested above).
Do note though, that I'm speaking about the volume level here, not sound quality. That's a whole different beast. 
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ullyeus
Joined: Jul 09, 2004
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On 2007-11-05 11:55:40, spitfire14 wrote:
On 2007-11-05 06:46:20, ks13 wrote:
if you are into music, mp3 then you should forget about using the P series phones by SE. the are just not designed to give good sound. this is out of my own experience when i switched from w810 to p990. now i am back to using a walkman phone cos i realised that it is music that i treasure. currently using w660
the p990 actually uses the same mp3 player used in the w800 (walkman ver1) , its just a marketing strategy to brand them "walkman phones," tested them both and they're of the same quality, dont know about those walkman ver2...
... i agree with the other post though, if you are an audiophile, walkman branded or not, you won't be satisfied, theres nothing like a dedicated gadget if you dont mind the extra equipment...
The interface is pretty much the same, but the sound processing hardware is definately different. The quality produced by P990i is just... meh. |
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