Skullcandy S2INCZ-033 3.5mm Connector Canal Ink'd Earphone Black/Black (2011 Model)

Pros: Good sound quality

Cons: Not for runners. When the cables swing around, it sounds like low pitched banging

Overall Review: Quality is there for low priced ear buds - beats everything else on the market today.

Pros: - price: good headphones for 12.99
- good bass
- great sound WITH an equalizer

Cons: High range sound was pretty bad and metallic sounding.

My computers realtek audio drivers have an equalizer with the frequencies (100, 200, 400, 600, 1k, 3k, 6k, 12k, 14k, 16k). To get the best sound out of these i slightly lowered 100, slightly raised 2 4 and 600, slightly lowered 1k and 3k, greatly lowered 6k, left 12k around the default, and gave a moderate boost to 14k and 16k. Dropping 6k cancelled out the metallic sound but left the treble overall too quiet, necessitating a boost to the frequencies above it. The rest was very minor, mostly vocal-centric, tweaking.


I tested this equalizer setting on a variety of rock, hip-hop, pop, folk, classical, jazz, and opera, and found it made a huge improvement universally. There wasn't a single exception. The only commonalities were that all the music were high bitrate mp3s, my laptop, my ears, and the headphones. One of them had to be causing bad initial levels, and its almost certainly the headphones.

Overall Review: They can't seem to generate the bass properly unless they're fit snug in your ears, like 100% airtight. I'm not sure if that's really a con or a universal condition for this kind of headphones.