Ausdom M08 headphones

Rating: 4/5

Review:
Very good quality headphones with dominant bass

Ausdom sent me these M08 headphones for review and I am impressed. They are very well made, exceptionally comfortable and have very good sound - although I find the bass a little dominant.

The headphones are very nicely packaged and come with a standard mini-USB charging lead, a good jack-to-jack lead for wired connection and a comprehensive User Manual in good English. They look very nice, I think, and fold up for easy transport and storage. They offer 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 comfortable; the ear pads are some of the best I've tried for comfort, and they will be fine for prolonged listening. The controls are the usual you'd expect: on/off and volume + and - buttons which also serve for pause/play and 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.

Sound quality is very good for many types of listening, but not ideal for me. The bass is extremely full: in some forms of music that's great, but not in all. 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 fabulous. However, in classical music I think there's a slight flabbiness in the treble and the bass is too dominant and rather boomy, so articulation of individual instruments and voices isn't always clear.

This may not bother you at all, 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 are functional, stylish and comfortable. Ausdom make good headphones; I have tried several sets from them and they have all been of very good build quality. These also seem solid and durable so you can buy with confidence, so if you're looking for a set of Bluetooth and wired headphones with really strong bass, I can recommend these.

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