Creative EP-630 - Are they meant to sound this bad?

Caged · 7 Sep 2006 at 20:48

I've just gotten a pair of these earphones after people seemed to rate them pretty highly, and they sound . . crap. Everything sounds 'muffled' like there are no highs at all, they sound worse than my old iPod white earphones. Am I doing something badly wrong here? I've tried various earpieces with no change.

Eliot · 7 Sep 2006 at 23:40

thats dis comforting, arent they the same headphone as the new sennheisers?

fish99 · 8 Sep 2006 at 09:43

While looking very similar, the CX300 are supposed to have different and better drivers. Still, I've heard people say they found the EP630 to be nice headphones, so I'm surprised to hear them described as muffled.

Where did you buy them from Caged? There's a lot of fakes around. Were they in sealed retail packaging?

Caged · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:47

Yeah I picked them up from my employer (large department store). At least I can return them easily.

Vegetarian · 8 Sep 2006 at 16:09

Well they should sound a lot better than stock ipod phons - try burning them in - some music at just above normal listening volume at least over night - best over 100 hours.

Maybe you not used to a bit of bass...

Caged · 8 Sep 2006 at 17:23

There's a difference between a bit of bass and no highs

It's a shame I had to go and destroy my E2c's.

Fubsy · 8 Sep 2006 at 18:06

What happened to your e2c's?

Mine are starting to split open in certain places along the wire, i keep trying to repair them with superglue and leccy tape, although it's only temporary.

Had them 2 years now so out of warrenty.

Caged · 8 Sep 2006 at 18:35

They got trapped in the mechanism of a MAC 500 and I can't afford to replace them.

Vegetarian · 9 Sep 2006 at 11:26

Caged said:
There's a difference between a bit of bass and no highs

It's a shame I had to go and destroy my E2c's.

My sugestion is go and get yourself some "audiclean" from boots .... and burn in the headphones....

e2cs - are well known for having no highs - sounds like your ears are blocked!

Caged · 9 Sep 2006 at 16:43

I'm not sure what your definition of 'highs' is, but the E2c's had more than these do. Surely if these sound more bassy than the E2c's, then they have even less at the high-end? I'm pretty sure my DX4's aren't removing the bass from all music either.

Unless these EP-630s are perfect and every other set of speakers and headphones I have ever listened to are wrong.

My ears are clean as.

Edit: What you say about burning them in seems to make sense, if I crank them then the highs seem to appear.