Although I
rarely use hands free it was broken by an
accident .The left ear has
been damaged after my daughter
carelessly broken it with her hands
.Never mind , its quality was very bad with very dull sound .It was
part of the smartphones pack, a cheap 60Eu 2-core model, used 13 months with now nearly
defunct WiFi possibly because I used it
quite close to the router. I used it about 1-1.5
meter far though not very sure if that really happens or is just my
opinion. I sometimes use my smartphones for more than 2 hours instead of my tablet
for just checking the mail, the news ,and the chats and posting photos on
Instagram. Sometimes I use the earphone
for experimental dictation.
Now back to my
smart phone’s earphone. It is a typical old
fashioned ear bud with mediocre fidelity and sufficient microphone sound and
fidelity enough good for telephonic usage. There are no trebles but basses are right. As in result I decided to look for a
new model again from Betron my favorite earphone company .
As you may know
the B25 model had very good
specifications (look on the previous
post that tough written on may it was posted end of September due to many reasons ) Betron has a very broad
line of in ear products with very low prices via Amazon.
I decided to look for a model that can also have volume
control so that can be used for any
other gadget say mp3 player or radio. Unfortunately the old fashioned way with
the variable resistor is now extinct so that I could not have any fine adjustment
on my smarthphone's volume. Finally I decided to order the Samsung
version of GLD60 by chance for a price
of 9GBP plus shipping a total of 17Eu.
Shipment
was a very funny thing: The pack was
sent registered and therefore was
tracked by Amazon and then by the Greek post. It has been sent on 6th of
Sept, arrived in Greece on 13,
passed twice the customs, spent 3 days in Thessaloniki and
received on 26. The time it arrived in Greece
I have received an email message from the shipping company with the
tracking number to check its route .
Finally on 26 th
I took the small A5 sized parcel
from Amazon. This is the favorite
company of our post office.
Here you will
look on several photos of the box and the accessories:
Later on the
house I opened the parcel . Betron uses
a 15x14x2.5 cm carton cassette to include everything .
There are many things inside : the
earphones located in between a
foam sponge that keeps it quite
firm two earphone
replacements , a landscape sized
pouch , a folded user guide, a discount
carton and a cable holder. The carton
top has also a metallic sheet in between the front part of the foam base and a magnet inside the
box to keep the box firm.
The paunch is quite uncommon considering all other punches looked so far especially from
mini Degen radios so far .Instead of a
lace they preferred to use a metal foil that I suppose it will keep the earphone
set even stiffer.
Earphones are
kept quite stiff inside the protective foam on the box. Nice design huh
?Controls are in the front while buds are shown in the rear of the box. Plug is
protected by a small plastic cover. As you will see the plug has three zones
the added for the microphone sound. Also a flag is added to show the model type
These are the spare parts of the set . Two spare sets
of ear plastics and one cable hook
.There are two sets on gray color and
only one in black .The gray colored are in two sizes: medium and small. Unknown why they didn't put
a second small sized black set
The earphones
have a nice slim size and are offered
with the medium sized plastics. The cable uses tigray colored
cables in all its length.
This is the control
system based on three buttons and the
mike in the rear shown as a very small hole. The guide shows just a centre
button that totally depends to the smartphones'
specifications .
The plug with
its three bands of connection. Stereo
plus mike's or control pass. And the
protective plastic case.
This is the
cable separator system made by possibly aluminum. The whole logic reminds me some models of A4 tech on
middle 00's that use the same logic in their earphone design.A4 tech today is rather nonexistent here in Greece .
A nice close up
of the ear bud .You may also see the
drilled metal.
This was a short overview of the model. Now on its
specifications as measured and compared
by myself .
The immediate
first test was using my Bolong radio, the
B25 GLD60 earphones with a audio splitter for faster listening I don’t
know if this can affect the operatively of the smaortphone ears but this is the
only fast way to investigate the efficiency
between various earphones or headphones
without plugging and unplugging them. And also to check simultaneous cross-bud
efficiencies. This is a way I do for more than 15 years. As noticed in
other posts in this site this radio has
the widest sound among my radios with increased trebles perfect for testing
among headsets.
This was the burn-on text for the GLD60.Separate set listening shown the
60 have little less volume than
B25, around 1-1.5 db only little less
bass and little less trebles. If I can set B25 as perfect
I can rate 60 as 4/5.But parallel
listening with two LEFT ear buds shown the sound being in exactly the middle.
This can mean sounds are exactly the same and there is no difference between the audio responses
of these earbuds. Exactly the same happened testing then with the two
RIGHT ear buds and then reversing them
into my ears!
Next step was
to use it alone into my smart
hone and test the microphone with a short recording in a special app. Tested in
a radio station with good sounds and
into a mp4 that had also good sound and then
tested the control buttons . I was surprised that the (+) and middle buttons stopped the
player while the (-) button didn’t affect the
smart phone! I sent a email message to the company who advised me that
the model is compatible with Samsung models and the mode generic version could
not possibly offer anything to my smartphone neither the microphone can work
(??)
Later same night
I continued me tests with other
equipment.
- First I did some shortwave logs on the ICOM R75 comms receiver and listened to my previously fav radio station RTM Sarawak .The sound is extremely sharp in AM wide and also quite sharp with the narrow filter very close to the sound of ICOM's internal speaker . This sound annoys me quite much especially mixed with the local noise caused by various sources including DSL flat TV screens and LED lamps as example As in result I stopped listening after 20 minutes and lowering the sound with external attenuator and used again my20+years m@h40 Sennheiser headphones that are perfect to equalize the receiver's headphone sound .
- Next test was with my smartphone. But ... i was disappointed that the sounds between B25 and 60 were very different , less bassy less trebly and at least 2db lower.
- At next using them in parallel wit the audio splitter to the Q3 player recorder both sounded OK . Q3 is used primarily for recordings from the ICOM receiver but also as mp3 player.
- Once again I used both of them with the splitter and both sounded properly with the same audio . Tested in two online stream programs with mp3 and aac formats.
- And finally tested separate having almost the same fidelity. So possibly I can think that the buds were not properly fitted into my buds though I always try to do.
- And another day tested headphones working properly wit Samsung smartphone Both vol controls adjust the volume while the middle activate or stop the player.
Please look my
previous posting. Considering a HiFi
earphone model B25 relatively the
same bass with model AKG518
,higher audio volume by 2-3 dB
and very sharper trebles . As 60 has
nearly the same audio we can assure that it follows the same curve.
Verdict : 60
has quite good audio fidelity with sharp
and bassy sound. At GBP9/Eu10.5 its specifications are well
above its price. It is now decreased to7 GBP.
5/5 for this
reason (quality vs. price )
4/5 comparing to B25
4/5 comparing to B25
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