Ultimate Ears’ triple.fi 10 Pro are Ultimate Ears best earphones except for the custom-made to your ears. They have a frequency response that is low and high enough to accommodate all but the most demanding projects (10-17000 Hz).
The triple.fi 10 Pro comes in a black box, holding the earphones themselves, silicon rubber tips, foam tips, a cleaning aid, an extension cable, a 1"4 connector, and a sound attenuator plug. There is also a nice metal case to hold all this stuff together in the box.
When your output channel is video and audio, you should make sure your sound is what it should be, and for that you need audio monitoring. Speaker monitors are used in recording studios which are sound-proof, but that often is impossible to do with a small budget.
Ultimate Ears earphones were first on my list, mainly because ambient sound reducing earphones seem like making sense. And of course, Ultimate Ears being one of the most well-known earphone suppliers of modern music professionals, the choice was rapidly made. (they’ve recently been acquired by Logitech).
The choice proved to be a good one. The triple.fi 10 Pro earphones are a comfortable fit, courtesy three sizes of silicon earplugs delivered with the kit. I didn’t try the foam plugs because those are limited use only, and the silicon ones are perfect. As soon as you plug in the earphones outside sound is blocked and sounds muffled.
The cable of the triple.fi 10 Pro is made of a special material as used only in high-end, Hi-Fi cabling. That’s what you would expect from high-end in-ear monitor speakers. However, the extension cable is made from the same material—and that’s highly unusual; most of the time, extension cables—if they are delivered at all with the earphones—are of a lesser quality.
The sound attenuator serves to cut off excessively high levels of sound bursts, in order to protect your hearing. Much to my own chagrin, I did not test these. I should have tested them when I switched to the triple.fi 10 Pro from the internal Mac’s speaker, a couple of days ago, as I forgot to turn down the levels and experienced what these three-driver earphones are capable of in terms of dynamic range…
Sound quality wise, the triple.fi 10 Pro are nothing short of amazing. To evaluate the performance of the triple.fi 10 Pro I did something that perhaps is not scientifically correct, but very effective in order to judge a speaker, headphones, or earphones for its sound quality: I compared to something that theoretically should be much better in output quality. In my case, I compared them against a pair of audiophile Sennheiser 650 headphones.
To make the comparison complete, I connected them to a Music Fidelity X-Can v3, playing a CD with opera music, and one with a piece of Cesar Franck’s organ music recorded in a gothic church in Paris, France. The St. Eustache church has an organ with bass pipes that can only be recorded and played back using equipment that can reproduce the deep basses that go well below the tones a 48 year old human can still hear.
The Sennheisers can reproduce these low bass tones, and the rest of the equipment can, but I was very curious as to how the triple.fi would perform. The result was not disappointing at all. The very rich bass tones the Sennheiser can effortlessly reproduce are only within the triple.fi 10 Pro’s reach if the plugs are seated correctly in your ears. If that is the case, it is almost impossible to hear a difference between the Sennheiser and the triple.fi 10 Pro.
In monitoring sound, I found the triple.fi 10 Pro to be able to reproduce details in both voice and music recordings that would stay muffled or muddy with other sound systems, including the EX66—which I could only get to reproduce details at very high sound levels.
In short, if you’re going to edit sound for video output and you want the best possible monitors without having to set up a professional recording studio or disturbing colleagues with high sound levels, the triple.fi 10 Pro is your best bet.
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