Review on 🎧 MEElectronics A161P In-Ear Noise-Canceling Headphones featuring Balanced Armature Technology (Discontinued by Manufacturer) by Julie Phillips

If you've never tried balanced headphones, you should. They sound great, but have the disadvantage of not being able to respond over a wide enough frequency range to fully cover the entire audio spectrum with a single device - that's why you see so many 2-, 3- and 4-strip structures of amplification. IEM class. 161s wisely try to cover mid-bass and mid-treble frequencies well, and unlike 151s, they can be used with a turntable without bass boost or an amp (although they get better with an amp). ' The highs are over the top - yes, these aren't the best IEMs for matte cymbals, but matte cymbals sound musical. Yes, very high roll-off results in a less defined soundstage than some other IEMs, but the soundstage is still well defined and believable. Simply better than anything I've tried for less than $100. I recently tried the HiFiMan RE-400s, budget $100 IEMs, and found them to be vastly inferior to the 161. Overall, the 161 sounds the closest to any sub-$100 IEMs I've tried to the same music played through a decent stereo. The downside is the wires - as others have said, the wires are flimsy. There's no way I would use them for sports or travel - being careful enough not to damage them at the table is a problem. But for home or office use, they handle music very well for sub-$100 IEMs.