Traditional Headphone Subversive Blue Mo-Fi Headphones Reviews

Blue Microphones is known for its high-quality microphones, and the company that targets high-end professional music equipment is entering the headset market. When a professional microphone manufacturer enters the headset field, what kind of spark will the two collide? Let's take a look at Blue. Masterpiece - Mo-Fi headphones.

Blue released a promotional video on the Internet. Surprisingly, there was no shadow of Mo-Fi in it. Instead, it ridiculed the popular listening habits of today. In the eyes of Blue, those who wear apples are now white. The user of the magic sound headphones can not be called "music appreciation" at all, and the era of the record player is considered to be "the correct way to open the music". It can be seen that the Mo-Fi earphone has a great change in audio.

The first impression of the headset is that it is too big, too bulky, giving a clumsy feeling. It weighs more than a pound. It can be said that Mo-Fi headphones are the biggest headphones on the market today, with Samsung Compared to plusheriffic, you can clearly feel it.

Fortunately, Mo-Fi's multi-point jointed headband inspired by the sports car keeps the earmuffs always parallel, with an adjustable knob on the head for the user to choose the pressure and tightness they like, while at the same time It also provides further sound isolation and reduces ambient noise. The wearer does not even feel that his head is wearing a "heavy object" of up to a pound.

Mo-Fi is so heavy, of course, due to his metal structure, the connecting arms and folding arms seem to be made of stainless steel, which is to increase the durability and strength of the headphones. But Mo-Fi is a typical "appearance" Strong, weak inside, many structures inside the earphones are through plastic hinges. This is the decisive factor for product durability.

MoFis' headphone jack settings are quite novel, we have to use the Blue Microphones cable, because the MoFis headphone jack is not a standard 3.5mm stereo plug, but a very rare 2.5mm 4-pin jack.

On the left earphone there is a MoFis microUSB charging port and a small switch, as a fairly normal person, you might think that means MoFis wired and wireless headset playback, but unfortunately tell you that they are not.

Mo-Fi offers three power amplifier settings: On, On+, and Off. When On is selected, Mo-Fi activates the amplifier to provide powerful and detailed sound. The On+ position allows the amplifier's analog low-frequency enhancement circuit to boost the low frequency. The .Off file is a way for Mo-Fi to connect to a studio-level device with high output in passive mode. That's why MoFis requires a charging cable.

MoFis is the only wired headset and is not used for noise reduction. There is a battery-powered amplifier. "Why do you want a headphone driver?" This is the most critical issue, the answer is just to make the music better, but for A music enthusiast may not ask such questions because they know the pros and cons of analog audio.

To give an example here, the Nexus 5 headphone amplifier can provide up to 22.24mW (32.46mW for iPhone 5). This is enough to drive most of the earbuds, not even for some low-impedance earphones. Distortion. And MoFis, equipped with a 240 mW amplifier. This is ten times the maximum power of the Nexus 5, although this does not necessarily mean that its music distortion is one-tenth of the Nexus 5, but it means a better music experience. Because MoFis provides their own amplification (with built-in power supply), even if we adjust the power of the small headphones, it can bring excellent music enjoyment.

MoFis also has its drawbacks. When connected to some specific devices, it will produce raster electronic noise. When the headphones are adjusted to on+ power amplifier mode, LG's G3 mobile phone cannot recognize the earphone device. Only when adjusting to other power amplifier modes can this problem be solved. If you connect the headset to the Samsung S5, you will hear a slight "beep" sound when you touch the screen.

The use of MoFis headsets on Apple products does not present the above problems, which may prove that Apple is more concerned with audio performance and compatible with third-party audio accessories than Android.

Blue Microphones has added high-powered enthusiast-class amplifiers to traditional headphones, which has undoubtedly improved the level of music experience, making ordinary users jump out of the public listening habits, breaking this limitation, and on the other hand satisfying The needs of music enthusiasts.

But the first attempt can not be perfect, the headset itself has many shortcomings, the plastic short board under the metal material, the huge volume will undoubtedly reduce people's desire to buy, audio compatibility needs to be improved. But the price of 350 US dollars Compared with other audio equipment of the enthusiast level, the price of Mo-Fi headphones is not bad.

Mo-Fi basic parameters

Amplifier output power: 240 mW

Power amplifier THD+N: 0.0004%

Frequency response: 15kHz-20kHz

SNR noise floor: less than 105dB

Noise: less than 20uV

Electricity: 1020 mAh

50mm fiber reinforced moving coil unit

42 ohm impedance

466 grams

Closed size: 21x 14x 12cm

Open size: 18x 29x 12cm