Refusal to take responsibility.
Hi, Just thought I would make a note here of your handling of my issues. I ordered a pair of HD6xx headphones and then earlier today recieved the package. I drive to go and get it, as I like in the UK I had to pay import tax and handling fees. These total £47.92. The breakdown being £35.92 in tax and £12 in fees. These taxes were calculated of the shipping label of the box, which marked the shipment as the 6xx headphones of $199 value. Before leaving the parcel depot, I open the box to find a $35 lord of the rings mousepad. So now the problem is not only do I not have the headphones, but you have marked the shipment wrong so I have paid £47.92 fees for the handling of the mousepad. Which would have acrued £0 of fees if marked correctly as it is under £135. I go back to the desk but as I have already paid the fees I am unable to reject the shipment, but as the box said 6xx, there was no way for me to know before opening it. I contact support and they offer me a replacement, which...
Jan 17, 2025
Unboxing is uneventful, despite a strong whiff of plastic odour. Cable looks cheap and probably is. The shell of the IEMs is OK, nozzle is quite wide but i manage to get them into my averaged size ear canals (unlike the horrible KZ ZS10s I recently bought here on which are probably made for people who use screwdrivers to remove earwax)
What I could hear during the first snippets of sample tracks was a massive bass which extends quite far into the lower frequency regions. Unfortunately the bass is so intense that it drowns out a good portion of the midrange. Everything else (upper mids and highs) is about to sound like when people call on the phone in the movies: dim, drowned out and far from defined and clear. Some of the lyrics sounded like undiscovered language (OK thats a bit exaggerated but on some tracks things became really blurred). If you don't care about this and love pounding bass only then this is for you. But you will miss a substantial proportion of the music.
Again, as you can see from other feedback I would like to warn buyers from joining the multidriver craze. More drivers does not mean necessary betters sound. Splitting up the audible frequency band and allocating it to drivers that are dedicated to a specific section makes sense but only if the developer does that homework on electronics and acoustics. Just tossing drivers into a bloated shell and call it audiophile will win no fans. As a comparison (and positive example) I have a LEAR LCM A1D which feature a single dynamic driver. The LEAR LCM A1D outperforms the GK3 substantially with this one driver and I don't think this is only because it is a custom IEM shell.
To sum up, invest in a decent pair of IEMs and give "Geek Wold" some time to improve their product. And the correct spelling of their English brand name.