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Technical Details
– Earbud Headphones; In-Ear
– Frequency Response: 10-23kHz
– Impedance: 16 ohms
– Driver Size: 11 mm
– Plug Size: 3.5 mm
– Compatible with iPhone, DVD Players, CD Players, iPod, MP3 Players, Computer
– Features: Rich, Detailed Music, Neodymium Magnet
– Audio Features: Outstanding Bass Response
– Unit Construction: Custom-Fit Design
– Cord and Cable Features: Single-Entry Cord
– Accessories Included: 3 Different Sizes of Silicone Inserts
– Lifetime Warranty
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2009-08-24
By John Fell (pryor, oklahoma)
sound quality was excellent but after a few months quit working… wires i assume… i wont buy another pair from this maker…
2009-05-11
By DirrtyDirrty
I’ve had the Skull Candy Ink’d earbuds for almost a year now. I’ve always used the earbuds that either came with a purchased music device or just the cheap kind you can buy for about $20 at any store. I guess I fit into the category of the typcial music listener and not the ones that spend hundreds for headphones or speakers, etc.
I was extremely impressed by the sound of these earbuds. Since I’m used to the “cheaper” headphones, I was blown away by the bass as well as the clarity of the sound. I was able to hear parts of songs that I’ve never heard before in my previous headphones. The noise cancelling process works because the earbuds create a suction in your ear and basically blocks out any outside noise.
One of the issues that I’ve encountered is that you do hear a good deal of vibration from the cables rubbing your shirt or something. It’s hard to explain but every time the cable hits something, it gives this rubbing sound in your ears. This is something than can be ignored after a while. That is one of the reasons why I don’t suggest wearing these while working out. I tried running with these earbuds and the vibration of my feet hitting the ground creates a weird sound from the suction in my ears. I guess it sounds a little like sticking a finger in your ear and moving it slightly ever time your foot hits the ground. Another reason I don’t suggest using it for working out (mainly running) is because the sweat gets into your ears and the suction of the earbuds creates a “squishing” sound.
The last issue that I have is that I checked every where and the earbuds don’t have any way to distinguish which bud goes into which ear. At least mine didn’t. What I did was just plug my earbuds into my laptop and moved the audio balance slider back and forth to determine which earbud was left and right. I then just marked each earbud with a marker.
Overall, I would definitely recommend these earbuds. Like I mentioned before, I’ve always used the “cheaper” headphones and this is by far the best I’ve used in the $20 category. I just don’t recommend them for use while working out (especially running).
2009-05-09
By Greg A. Scoggin (San Francisco, CA USA)
One would think that quality and durabilty are synonymous, but they aren’t.
I have noticed that price plays no part in durability versus sound quality when it comes to ‘in the ear’, earbuds. My $110.00 dollar battery operated, Panasonic noise cancelling earbuds, lost one ear’s signal, after 4 months. My $350 dollar studio reference M-Audio IE-30 earbuds had a wire that severed on the ear harness reinforcement wire losing all signal in one of the buds. This happened twice! First with the wire that came with the set, then again with the replacement set I had to order. I gave up, threw em in the wire box most of us use for all the USB cables and junk that comes with all electronic stuff that we keep near the home computer desk. another set of overpriced, useless proprietary wires lying around At least with M-Audio, though, I have the option to buy a replacement wire set and plug it back into the buds, since it is not the bud that fails, it is the wire and the system is ‘modular’ that way. Still, they charge you 35.00 dollars for a replacement set plus shippin and handling aand you have to order it via their website via credit card. A kid wouldn’t have a way to do it if mom won’t give him the card. You’d think for a $350 dollar set of earbuds, they’d send it along for free, once you registered your product at their website. Not so. Welcome to corporate America in the 20th century. planned obsolescene coupled with GREED.
But I am being tangential and this a a review of INK’d’s product, albeit a low end one, but nonetheless still a product that costs 20 bucks plus tax and shipping on this website alone.
INK’d really shouldn’t have an excuse for such poor durabilty in their Skullcandy earbud product as ‘INK’d’ is a U.S. based company out of Utah. Like everything today though, this company is probably at the mercy of a Chinese manufacturer, who assembles and sells the product back to INK’d(among others) for pennies on the manufacturing chinese dollar and then INK’d marks them up 2000 percent of their own cost in order to pay for all their graphics, packaging adverts , overhead and transport fees..and of of course, a little left over some good ol American profit, too for the CEO’s six figured salary, Christmas bonus and vacation to Baruba. That being said, we all know how hard it is to ensure quality control in another ‘outsourced’ country, so I will be nice and give INK’d the benefit of the doubt and say they are a good old american company doing what all others do, exploit the third world for personal profit and they can live with their conscience because at least they supply a few low paying jobs for a few folks over in Utah.
Enough of my soapbox, though.
Poor quality control is still no excuse for screwing the consumer over. Period. I am paying with U.S. dollars here, so at least charge more and make a decent product or don’t waste my valuable time (and money) in putting out garabage that I end up having to just bring back or throw away. Do some of your own internal ‘quality control’, Ink’d! How hard can that be? Give a few pair to your teenage kids and see how long they last. If they break in a week, charge more and get another manufacturer and sell a better product. I mean, you brag on your website about how they are durable, show motorcyclists and kids skating with your product, so what is your excuse, here? It ain’t rocket science,use thicker wire, better rubber. Oh, I see, you got it figured out that most people won’t waste the time to return them, complain or try to turn them in for warranty service and if they do, you’ll ignore them, like you did me. The kids you market to will just ask mom and dad to buy them another pair, and being that they are relatively cheap, you’ll make more money in a society that can’t remember what it bought and what didn’t really work the way it should or broke and we lost the receipt for and can’t take them back..we’re all too busy to worry about that…just buy another pair..next time you make your weekly trip to Target or Walmart or wherever we all spend our money at….and it happens so often, and we are so busy during the interim of our weekly trips to Best Buy, or Target or Walmart, that we (moms and dads) can’t or won’t find the time to make a special trip back to the store to get another pair or argue with the clerk as to why we can’t find the receipt and more than likely, we give up the fight and just buy another pair so we don’t have to listen to our kids complain. You got that one figured out, right? You assume that most people will never get the chance to get a replacement or to worry about returns because you already did the high dollar market research to verify that. Again, it doesn’t take a Harvard MBA to figure that one out, either. You know that we’ll just buy another pair! Heck, why not? Two weeks is too long to have a new product in our throw away society, anyway! Well, I am only middle aged, now and I remember when things were made well, back in the 80’s and in this day and age, they just aren’t and it bugs me to no end. Price has gone up, though, but quality? waaayyy down. Junk. You sell us junk and we accept junk because quite frankly, everything is junk, so we have no point of reference to what is good quality, anymore. We are stuck with the kind of stuff that Ink’d sold me, 5 pairs to be exact. that’s 100 dollars and nothing to show for it after 6 months. But not ever again, and hence this review.
So, yes, 5 pairs of these Ink’d earbuds, some on sale at Staples for $12.99 once, mostly at Target for around $14.99. I have to admit it, I love the sound, good signal to noise ratio, volume defintion and frequency response is all there…I might just say, as good as my way overpriced M-Audio IE-30 studio monitor reference earbuds which ran me $350.00 dollars. Those, sadly, along with these INK’d Skullcandy earbuds, eventually will irreperably fail in either one ear, the wire severing on the inside of the insulation. Sometimes as soon as I pull them out of the box, other times, it takes a month or two. NO QUALITY CONTROL. Now, I am not all that hard on them (or maybe I am but what constitutes being rough?-At 43, I am not skateboarding with them, to be sure). I take the earbuds off, put them in my front shirt pocket at work (not wrapping them around my Ipod, like the included instructions tell me not to do) and , somewhow, someway, the line leading to one ear or the other, will eventually lose contact with the earbud AND fail as the rubber insulated inner speaker wire leading to the speaker cone, breaks and no more signal to that earbud. There goes your stereo sound and you cannot fix it. I’ve tried, the wire is too thin on Ink’d’s Skullcandy product. Kaput. Done. Throw away.
I have given up on this brand. I bought KOSS the next time round, $16.00 bucks, haven’t had a problem yet, lasted 1 month, so far…that is a record! The outer insulator rubber that protects the inner signal wire is made of a more durable and THICKER wire and rubber coating. If I am lucky, they might just last at least six months.
I emailed INK’d after filling out a long winded warranty report on their website claiming that I wanted to return a pair that, get this, came out of the box, not working. Yeah, out of the brand spanking new factory package with a severed wire….which reminds me to tell you that it requires a hack saw or metal cutting sheers simply to open the theft preventative heat sealed 1/4″ thick plastic to get to the buds, so ..If they weren’t broken when they went in the package, most assuredly they would be after a guy got the package open..which i think is probably what happened with me…so, I emailed them, saying the product was busted out of the package, that after 5 pair of broken buds, I wanted them to send me at least one pair free and to please give me an RMA number so I could return the set I just bought and that came broken and toget a replacement set, sick of buying these things, and guess what? Yep, you guessed right, no return reply, nada, nothing. Tried to email, twice. Nothing, nada, no reply.
OK, that seals the deal. Instead, I returned them to Target, defective. I learned to keep my receipt after the 3rd broken pair. If they didn’t sound so good, and weren’t on sale here and there at good prices, i think I would have given up, but this time, I have. Ink’d is gonna take the hit, one way, or another, this time. IMHO, Don’t waste your time or money on this product.
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