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The Ultimate Ears Super.Fi 5 Pro earphones are long and a little knobbly compared with most sets, but then again once you enter the world of exotic, expensive earphones, you find they come in more shapes and sizes than you’ll find down your local Currys. Find out if strange shape equals strange sound in our Ultimate Ears Super.Fi 5 Pro review.
In order to help you make sure their relatively substantial girth remains happily within your ear canal, the Super.Fi 5 Pro headphones’ cable is stiffened at the bud end so you can mould it around your ear. These ’phones are strictly for wearing behind your ear too. We tried the other way and frankly, it didn’t work at all well. Some might not like this, but it does make them surprisingly suitable for use while running.
There’s another less contentious fact about the cable on the Super.Fi 5 Pro earphones too – that it can be completely disconnected from the buds themselves. Your days of worrying incessantly about seeing that glint of exposed earphone wire are over – you can just get yourself another cable rather than shelling out £150 for a brand new set. On a lesser set of headphones this would seem like a bad idea, but the build quality of this pair is excellent.
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Normally we might find ourselves centring in on one frequency range best served by the Ultimate Ears Super.Fi 5 Pro earphones, but there isn’t one to speak of. These high-end efforts don’t focus on being super bassy or ultra revealing – instead they do their best to be as punchy as hell.
However, that’s not to say that the Super.Fi 5 Pro ‘phones aren’t bassy or detailed – they’re both – but rather that they try to make your music listening fun rather than analytical. They don’t offer quite as much ultra-fine sonic detail as the Ultimate Ears 700s, Jays q-JAYS or Etymotic Er6i, or the lush, warm mid-range of the Shure SE530, but they have a knack of making your music sound that bit more exciting.
Somehow, they do this without sacrificing fidelity either. Where the Denon AH-C751 earphones can cause palpitations when matched with dance music but pay off the debt with an artificial-sounding treble, the Ultimate Ears Super.Fi 5 Pros sounded as at home with Sibelius as System of a Down. At their price, these earphones are up there with the best.
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