The luxurious Audio-Technica ATH-EW9 clip-on headphones offer stylish cherrywood earpieces, a lightweight design, and a soft travel pouch.The Audio-Technica ATH-EW9's Y cable is just 4.5 inches long on the left earpiece and 22 inches on the right earpiece. The overall length is pretty darn short--just 42 inches--so we had to carefully "dress" the cable to avoid snags; Audio-Technica includes a 40-inch-long extension cable.
The tiny 1.5-inch-diameter Audio-Technica ATH-EW9 earpieces don't offer much isolation from outside sounds, so we had to turn the volume way up on the NYC subway and busy city streets to hear our music. They leak sound and might be annoying to anyone nearby if you crank your music up. Ergo, the headphones seem best suited to indoor use.
Sound quality is, in certain ways, spectacular. Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years" was the perfect way to get acquainted with the Audio-Technica ATH-EW9's charms. Simon's voice and guitar were richly balanced and ultraclear. The music sounded remarkably open and never exhibited the trapped-between-my-ears sound we get from most headphones. Comparisons with our Etymotic ER-4P in-ear headphones ($330) put the ATH-EW9's sonic charms in perspective. The ATH-EW9 had greater clarity, but the ER-4P solidified the bass, which was deeper and more powerful.audio tecnica ath-ew9
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