Your ears have a new friend

Sony MDR-1R is a set of premium headphones that feature good quality for music reproduction with good bass, details and clarity.

And it has a good design for listening comfort and allows you to enjoy long hours of music.

It comes with enhanced Beat Response Control design by enlarging air vents at the back of each driver unit for improved airflow with low-end sounds. This larger vent allows freer diaphragm movement particularly in bass frequency area, resulting in a quicker, more ‘rhythmic’ low frequency response with improved transient characteristics.

The MDR-1R reproduces vocals clearly in a natural fashion, achieving good balance among all instruments, vocal and powerful low bass sounds, by using 40mm liquid crystal polymer film diaphragm to provide the rigidity and internal loss for balanced and highly accurate mid-high range sounds.

The MDR-1R is comfortable to wear thanks to a new enfolding structure that reduces the width of structural parts supporting the ear pads to a third of conventional Sony headphones. This allows the ear pads to tilt inward when you wear the headphones. This allows for structural softness, which in addition to the pressure-relieving cushions that wrap around your ears, resulting in comfy fit.

It is nice that the headphones come with a tangle-free serrated cord and minimise mechanical rattling to provide maximum listening comfort, and an immersive music experience.

The MDR-1R features 105 dB sensitivity and frequency response of 4-80,000 Hz.

It can be used as a headset for an iPhone because it comes with inline remote with built-in mic and volume controls. The inline remote also supports an iPod and iPad.

I enjoyed using the MDR-1R for hours with an iPad and my Android-based Motorola smart phone.

Listening to AC/DC’s “Black Ice” album, the MDR-1R reproduced very powerful bass with the powerful vocals of the singer and details of the lead and rhythm guitars and drums and percussion.

When I listened to the “Best Audiophile Voices V” album, the MDR-1R reproduced the sweet voices of the female singers beautifully and provided clarity and good details of the instruments. For example, “You’ve Got a Friend” featured beautiful and clear voice of the female singer with bass rhythms from the cello.

The MDR-1R reproduced saxophone very beautifully in good harmony with other music instruments when I listened to the “Sax for Sex/Beautiful Night” album.

Sony MDR-1R retails for Bt8,990.

 

        Key specs

_ Driver Unit: 40 mm, dome type (HD, OFC Voice Coil) Liquid Crystal Polymer Diaphragm 

_ Frequency Response: 4 - 80,000 Hz 

_ Impedance: 24 ohms at 1 kHz 

_ Sensitivity (db): 105 dB/mW

_ Power Handling Capacity: 1500 mW

_ Compatibility: iPod/iPhone/iPad; 3.5mm Headphone Jack

_ Cord Length (Approx.): 1.2 m

_ Weight (Approx.): 240 g