Do these headphones have ridiculous bass? Do you need a amplifier for it to become a substantial amount better?
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These headphones sound more like a fine tuned night club. The bass is present, lush, tight, and gorgeous. An amp will only help, but isn't necessary. If there's no bass in the song, you won't hear any. If you want that "bass in your face" feeling, I'd recommend the XB500, which is far cheaper. It will make any song sound bassy, and sounds more like 2 15" juggernaut subwoofers rattling in your car. Not nearly as clean. Personally, I enjoy the XB1000's, but pick whatever one sounds like you'd be into.
1042341
These headphones have amazing bass. An amplifier improves the overall sound quality but it is not a necessity to enjoy these headphones.
1042342
They have in my opinion a good amount of bass w/ out amplifier. Now with an amplifier these headphones get rediculously loud and the bass does get deeper. Any amp would work even pocket one. These headphones do leak a lot! Seriously they leak a lot! But they do sound great. So honestly you won't be getting the price tag sound with out an amplifier.
1042343
The bass is phat! You don't need an amp as long as you are playing from a decent source (iPod, etc.)
1042344
The bass is just right, not too much and good quality. The Impedance is just 24ohms, so amplifier is not require. By the way, this headphone is bigger than you thought.
1042345
I use an E9 amp at home, and it's pretty much perfect, but even if you just have them hooked straight to your iPhone or w/e they perform pretty damn well in the bass department.
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I disagree completely with all the comments above.I think people have a wrong perception of headphones quality. I am a basshead myself. The Q701 are perfect to restitute ANY frequency! I love listening to Kendrick Lamar for instance with them and the infra bass are making my head vibrate... But you will need an amp, that's all.
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No, not at all. you have to really push them into your ears to get any bass
800867
Nah. they sound like your in a tunnel wearing earbuds. No bass barely sound. I would advise skullcandy they cost a little more but they sound great and they last for months or even years. This break the next week so u can't do nothing with them really but sit calmly and they will hurt ur ears because the squishy ears part is thin plastic not rubber. if u get samsung earbuds order them off the site for the $30 price. Or skullcandy for $20 Or waste ur money on these..
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Hi Bryan, it depends if you appreciate flat response. If you're into augmented bass maybe look at something that is more tailored to bass boosting, etc... However, if you're interested in faithful representation of what you're listening to these are great. Most electronic music is well-balanced enough to not need artificial bass boosting in earphone design. These are really great earphones, I've been enjoying them a lot.
1723749
Thanks for your question. These wonderful sounding headphones are not self amplified.
1934875
They have incredible bass! You can feel the deep pounding of the bass drums and it sounds excellent. I use an Android phone with DSP Manager and turn the bass boost to extreme to get the effect maximized and these headphones don't distort at all even at higher volumes.
574961
I think they have plenty of bass. Guess it depends on what you're listening to. Hard rock/heavy metal sounds great. But if you're listening to (c)rap and want the distortion, maybe not for you.
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According to my son, yes they have a good bass sound and they are very clear sounding. I wouldn't know what you mean by "extra" bass sound.
2066459
Hello. I listen to my headphones in amplifier of Technics and sound great. Sound card, which you want to buy seems to be very nice. There are also built-in amplifier for headphones and very high quality. I see no reason these headphones do not sound good, not to say super good. Good choice in my opinion!
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You need a headphone amp to get great bass performance out of these (Recommend the BSG CMOY). They are open headphones though, so they won't hit you in the face with their bass.
1311291
No. You want to treat these more like tweeters. They sound good on the high end, but trying to put a lot of mid-frequency and low end bass through them will only make them crackle.
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No, they have terrible bass... Maybe if you have a powerful head unit or drive them with an amp they might have some bass. But other than that, don't expect these to give good bass.
1767161
More even, well rounded vs overwhelming bass. If you are looking for the latter exclusively, you will probably want to look elsewhere. These are good for a range of music/audio though if you have diverse tastes.
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I own these headphones and i hook them up to my mac laptop and computer all the time and the sound quality is fantastic. I also have a fiio e5 and that really doesn't do much. These headphones are very sensitive and only 50 ohm so therefor you will not need an amplifier. People say you need a headphone amp for high end headphones, but that is only if you have 300 ohm headphones. Most high end headphones are much higher than these. SO you should be fine hooking them up to your pc speakers or just directly into your pc.
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I wouldn't say these headphones are particularly bassy. I feel like they simply provide a clearer listening experience than some others I've tried, but in my experience they don't tend to amplify any one aspect or another of music.
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these have the best bass I have ever heard in a pair of headphones.. smooth as silk and POWERFUL. (as noted in the other answer - the source music has to be good quality!)