Today, I found out that PMC Greenbelt 3 removed all their other headphones on display and replaced them with the relatively new Bose OE2. I figured that I might as well try it while waiting for their service center area to call out my number, since asking Siri "what is the best headphone?" is always answered by "Bose OE2"
The store price was around 9k pesos, I auditioned them for about 30 minutes with a lot of different genres using ALAC lossless files.
To get to the point, I loved how they sounded until I read the price tag. They had a very musical and fun sound to them from a U-shaped frequency response. I had a hard time putting them down. The way I'd describe them is that Bose set out to create a headphone that'd have the most "pop" sound they could manage, and would be enjoyable to the largest segment of consumers from the general public. When I listened to them in a more analytic manner, the cons started to show -- sometimes they had overly prominent treble on rock and metal music, small soundstage compared to full size headphones, emphasized but slightly uncontrolled and bloated bass compared to high end denons (and planars for that matter), quite hard to drive from portable sources like idevices. It could have been the best portable headphone on the market under 5k pesos, but they decided to charge double the price for whatever reason. I'd definitely be happy if someone gifted me with them though. They're small and foldable too
Has anyone else heard these?
