Mixcder ShareMe headphones

Rating: 4/5

Review:
Decent quality headphones with very strong bass

I was sent these ShareMe headphones for review and overall I am impressed. They are very well made, reasonably comfortable and have good sound with exceptionally good bass response.

The headphones are very nicely packaged and come with a standard mini-USB charging lead, a good jack-to-jack lead (with gold-plated plugs) for wired connection and a decent User Manual in comprehensible English. The headphones look very nice, I think, and fold up for easy transport and storage. They have both Bluetooth and wired connection, and I noticed no difference in sound quality between the two modes. You can use wired connection to connect to non-Bluetooth devices, of course, and also use it if the headphones are out of charge which may be a handy feature.

They are light and although they're not the most comfortable headphones I've ever worn, they're perfectly OK for pretty long periods. The controls are the usual you would expect: on/off and volume + and - buttons which also serve for pause/play, skip forward and back and standard phone controls, and there's a perfectly decent microphone. Bluetooth pairing is simple (standard pairing only - no NFC). I found both the battery life and range good.

The first thing to say about the sound quality is that the bass is exceptionally strong and very deep. Middles, too, sound very good but I do find the trebles a little muffled and they lack real sparkle.  I test all headphones and speakers (and I've tested a lot) using a playlist of test tracks which give all aspects of the sound a thorough trial. It starts with 16th Century choral music, it ends with London Grammar and it has most things in between - orchestral, choral, vocal and chamber music, classic rock, acoustic music and so on. For rock and the like these are great; the powerful bass really gives it a kick and the deep bass in London Grammar's Hey Now sounds really good. However, in classical and acoustic music the slightly muffled treble does show, so high strings, a soprano, baroque trumpets and so on don't come over all that well, and an acoustic guitar can sound as though it needs new strings.

This may not bother you, of course, and if you like a real bass boom in your music these will serve you extremely well. They are certainly very good headphones at this price.  They seem solid and durable and if you're looking for a set of Bluetooth and wired headphones with really strong bass, I can recommend these.