If last time we looked at the Sphear headphones from the French from Focal, then today we'll take a look at something bigger - the Focal Listen model, which is made in a more customary way for the company.
The first thing you initially look at when looking at the Focal Listen is the simplicity of the exterior finish. Moreover, the simplicity is not the one that outwardly gives out "the generous Chinese origin". Externally, Focal Listen looks like something modest, strict, but at the same time expensive. No kitsch, but the view clings to the details of the design and thoughtful details of the design almost instantly.
Material here was not spared, so the Listen at first seemed weighty, but thanks to a completely cup-closed cup, soft ear cups that do not put pressure on the head at all, and precise adjustment of the headband under almost any head, this Focal product literally appears to be close and close in a couple of minutes.
To sit in the Focal Listen for several hours, alternately listening to music, podcasts, watching videos - it's easy. And it's just as easy to walk in the city for a few hours, to move around in the transport and use it as a headset. All this contributes to many small things.
For a comfortable wearing of the headphones themselves, they provided a fairly reliable folding structure. We did not try to undo them, of course, but they did not express their claims when wearing a tightly packed backpack. This is the same mobile headphones, so it is stated both on the packaging and on the device itself, the letter in the letter: " premium mobile headphones ". So the complete cover can be safely used for its intended purpose and not be afraid.
When moving in transport very often neighbors on a vehicle actively move around the cabin, usually not particularly bothering with attention to others. So headphones traditionally fly out of ears, removable wires are taken out with some degree of cruelty and so on. Listen provided a well-thought-out fastening with a lock from accidental drop-out of the cable - the design looks reliable and is generally more useful than an additional chip for the sake of a chip .
And mobile headphones are the use with mobile devices. Yes, the players are gradually retiring for the majority of mobile listeners. Where is the phone or other sound source usually used? In the pocket. And this means that the headphone plug should be easy to use. At Focal here everything is good - the r-shaped plug seems to be not straight, and does not rigidly bend at an angle of 90 degrees. As a saying goes, there were no complaints.
And finally in this part - about the operation of Focal Listen as a headset. Of course, the quality of voice transmission at altitude. Of course, the microphone does not wheeze and the interlocutor hears you exactly as it allows you to transfer cellular communications. But I liked very much the solution with the separation of the microphone and the answer button for two noticeably spaced modules. Even if the answer button is loose, there will be no sound in the microphone when walking. All ingenious is simple. The button also works on switching tracks or calling Siri, for example.
And in the sound of these headphones are not so simple as one might imagine, after casting a quick glance at them, and continue to practice the Listen mantra " premium mobile headphones " written on the Listen cup. So, having met them on clothes, the communication will continue already "according to the mind" - everything is strictly according to the proverb.
There is only one missing in the Focal Listen. Not me, but I listened to a number of favorite compositions - for sure. They do not "rock" them with a bass voice, that the Chinese sub is in your "eight". It feels like the entire frequency range is very gentle with a tape measure and caliper and measured and accurately divided between the ranges of their rights and responsibilities. This gives rise to a completely unusual perception in the fashionable modern tracks pozaborye . Fans of headphones with a large English letter B on the cup in the Listen look for nothing.
But Listen's love for detail leads to another point, which is important in the selection of the media library, and in our case almost the most fundamental factor. This is not only the quality of the track (compression and other wisdom of the High Sound) . This is the quality of the recording. That is, Ella Fitzgerald or Comrade Armstrong can be obtained with warm and lamp, with a slight hoarse microphones and technology of those years. And if it's just not very well-reduced pop idols of the eighties and nineties of the last century, the discomfort will take the place of lampwork very quickly - a lot, a lot of attention in Listen for details.
Do not listen to the French headphones favorite soundtrack to Les Miserables 2012 I could not. Given that the sound to the film was recorded rather difficult and some moments on the stage are very clever, listening to the same Look Down or Master Of The House, I liked it more in the Focal Listen, although before that my favorite among the headphones of this price range was absolutely another model, and also one more "ears" is more expensive about three times. And yet, they say, electronic music has a propensity for Listen, but as a kid I got a bear on the synthesizer, so I do not understand it very much. It seems to be beautiful, colleagues praised. The fans should try to listen, I think.
Well, just look at this nice accent in the form of a red cloth covering the speakers of the Focal Listen. It seems that no one will see this part for 90 percent of the time of using headphones, but still no-no-and the view for this bright spot will be caught when you sit in front of a window / computer / book (underscore) on long winter evenings. Which is already very close ...
Such an interesting model came out from the pen of the French workers of the sound industry, Focal Listen: rigor in the details of the appearance and attention to detail in the sound at an average market price of 15 thousand rubles can easily spodvig to buy these headphones. Unless, of course, you are not a big English B fan on the cup of the product that you use to listen to the audio.
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