Unscrewed and disassembled: Tear-Down
The fact that the two ear warmers can be rather easily removed and attached by carefully pulling off the six lugs is very good. Then it also works with the hygiene for in between. You can see where money was saved here, especially on the back. The PU cover immediately uses the attachment of the shells as a tensioning device. It doesn’t look really nice, but you don’t usually see it. The padding is a bit too soft and how long the shape can be kept will probably only be answered by a long-term test. In any case, expensive cold foam is not.
Without ear pads, the view of the 50 mm driver’s diaphragm is unobstructed, which looks purely as you would expect. However, you can see from the small cone that the stroke is not particularly large. Well, costs. By the way, the installation is also a bit different than usual because Edifier has saved costs quite cleverly even here without sacrificing stability. Let’s just unscrew the part.
Remove five screws and then you can immediately get inside? Thought. But it’s not quite that simple. At this point, the headphones do not consist of a shell with a screwed-in cover, but of two half shells that are then additionally plugged together at the headband pickup. Right there (picture below, top right) we also see the lugs for the headband’s grid effect. Here, too, the design is solved rather cheaply, so you shouldn’t pull on it like crazy too often. This is quite usable, but does not tolerate a daily multiple load due to a constant shifting.
The 50 mm neodymium drivers sit in a sealed chamber without any acoustic frippery like bass tubes or dual-chamber resonators. The picture shows the left shell with the PCB including the socket for the microphone and the LED light guide foil including the cables. All the electronics are in the control box in the cable.
The circuit board also makes a clean impression, just like the rest of the workmanship inside actually. The strain relief of the cable to the right side is solved by means of an attached guide and is absolutely sufficient. The rather small inner volume of the chamber (right) is not quite as conducive to bass. We will hear and see what the consequences are in the next few pages
Software that nobody needs
I put the software in the teardown this time because it really looks naked when you download the huge package, especially since the functionality is virtually nil, because apart from the usual volume controls you can’t adjust anything else, not even RGB. Not to mention the sound, the surround is always active. This makes the whole package superfluous, because the headset is actually a simple plug & play solution with a very simple C-media chip and USB DAC/ADC for headphones and microphone.
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