The spring breeze does not close the jade door, and I see the talent to accompany the music and talk.
Sigh this opening sentence, it has been a month since the last Beijing exhibition report update, this "see you again" can also be regarded as a long time to listen. The recent busy work has indeed delayed some time to share text, fortunately the process of trial play and listening has not stopped, the protagonist I want to talk about today, is also a new product seen at the Beijing exhibition last month, from the old manufacturer Philips wearing Bluetooth noise-canceling headphones L3.
Before talking about this product, I want to cut in line with a separate topic, that is, about the volume of daily listening, in every offline exhibition in the big world, Caizi will meet a lot of new friends, in addition to sharing music and blowing water, will also share and exchange equipment to listen to each other, so I also have the opportunity to hear a lot of personalized collocation, with the style and effect and put aside, Caizi found that the difference in listening volume of different players is still quite large, because their normal use of volume is small, So basically listen to other players' systems, are used to first turn the volume down a section and then on the ear, but there are also miscalculations, the deepest impression is the first Chengdu exhibition, there is a burner with a hugo-based portable bundle system push plug, up an ear to up, a closer look, the plug is actually inserted in the line out position, have to admire that burner is also an iron ear. Here is a friendly reminder, although the background noise of the offline exhibition is still relatively large, but in order to protect the hearing, everyone tries to pay attention to the volume, so when the Philips booth of the Beijing exhibition, without advance preparation, when bringing L3, the feeling of the world being quiet for a moment still makes me happy.
After thinking about it, I still review the history of Philips and give you a brief introduction. First of all, the European century-old brand we will not mention much, since its inception has been deeply rooted in the audio field, from the early chapel radio to the cassette tape recorder, CD record standard definition, there are Philips figures, add a sentence, this is the talent of Philips the most favorable place, after all, the CD party do not forget the contribution of Philips and Dafa, while Philips in the middle of the last century many tubes are also representatives of affordable sound.
The transformation took place in the second decade of this century, and in 2011, Philips Video's high-end series Fidelio was born (another place that I liked, named after Beethoven's Federio), opening a new chapter in the legendary sound journey. Designed for discerning music lovers, the Fidelio series represents Philips' highest acoustic technology, whether it is headphones or home theater systems, Fidelio's products will present consumers with "excellent sound quality, leading technology, top design and materials", and each of fideilo's innovative audio products is to better enhance the consumer's audio and video entertainment experience. "Obsessed with sound" is the unremitting pursuit of Philips Fidelio.
Repeat machine time to this end, there is a said headset, Philips as an old manufacturer, these years in the field of headphones have also been innovating, but in the big altar of this more "pure HIFI" platform, the amount of discussion is not particularly high, personally feel that or positioning and entry point of the problem, Philips headphones have been biased towards the general public positioning, taking the fashion, practical, sound-price ratio of the route, to say more bluntly is more HIFI than ordinary fashion headphones, more trendy than ordinary HIFI headphones. So you will see that in the past two years, caizi has not only shared the hifi of the s3 series, but also shared bluetooth plugs such as TAT5505. As the flagship product of the current Bluetooth headset, L3 is also positioned like this: the HIFI headphones bought by ordinary people & the Bluetooth noise-canceling headphones that burners can see.
Philips in its high-end series, in recent years a characteristic is the use of Muirhead leather, L3 is no exception, you can see a copy of the instructions from Muirhead in the package, leather material plus the use of aluminum material to form the overall frame, L3 as a whole as far as possible to do light and portable, of course, we are talking about "as far as possible", the reason is that L3 in the portable HIFI headphones is a lightweight existence, but in the Bluetooth headset, to be a big hunk. Why? Not only in its 40mm large-caliber unit, but also in that it integrates a bunch of electronic functions that you use or can't use, and we comb through them one by one.
As a Bluetooth, the supported formats and standards are certainly the first part of our attention, the L3 uses the Qualcomm QCC3034 chip, which is a low-power, high-performance chip that supports Bluetooth 5.1, apt-X/HD. In the transmission of CD-level bitrate music, it is enough, so we are common in the country of various music apps, such as NetEase Cloud, QQ or whatever, does not constitute a bottleneck of transmission, of course, if you only listen to tidal/Qobuz and love HERES, I still recommend honestly equipped with a wired headset. L3 actually has a wired mode, connected to a headset cable can be used as an ordinary headset, so that players can also be used with various types of players, which is to make up for the monotony of the use of the scene. However, it should be noted here that even if it is wired mode, L3 must also have an effect in the boot state, and the wired mode can choose the switch of noise reduction or ambient sound, that is, if you want to treat L3 as a pure passive headphone, it is impossible to do it.
Let's talk about the first attraction of L3, that is, noise reduction, the official information is that L3 uses dual core + doubly-fed noise reduction communication, specifically the use of independent Qualcomm QCC3034 Bluetooth communication chip and Sony 3872 noise reduction chip for collocation. The Bluetooth chip can enjoy a smooth wireless experience; the noise reduction chip significantly improves the noise reduction attempt and ensures the level of music performance after noise reduction. In fact, when you look at the inside of the earcup, you will see a small protrusion inside the right earmuff, which is a sampled microphone to collect the sound on the inside of the earcup. L3 body mounted microphone is actually a lot, there are before and after, there are inside and outside, according to the multi-channel sampling induction, the result input chip, synthesized out of the inverted phase copy of the ambient noise, and transmitted to the human ear, plus a good seal of leather earcups, will catch my ears in the exhibition environment.
The advantage of the big head-mounted ear is that the noise-cancelling headphones have more freedom in the position and number of sampled microphones, and you will hardly see more than two microphones on one side on the small noise-cancelling earbuds. So as a commuter, L3 is very competent, and its noise reduction effect is also the best to try it out at present. In addition, like the TAT5505 that has been shared, the L3 is equipped with a touch operation function, players can use their fingers to click or slide on the right side of the cavity panel to achieve playback/pause/switch/volume adjustment and other functions. It should be noted that the volume adjustment follows the phone and does not have a built-in separate adjustment. Also on the lower button of the right cavity is the noise reduction mode switch, and the L3 boot is turned on by default. Players can switch the listening mode through the mode key loop, the three listening modes are: "ANC ON (noise reduction on) / Awareness (ambient sound) ON / ANC OFF (noise reduction off)", Philips has a special official APP for controlling its various Bluetooth headphones, but from the personal experience, the button is obviously more convenient and fast than the APP. In addition, the L3 has a multi-point connection function, that is, it can stay connected to two Bluetooth devices at the same time, which is a completely unusable function for me. It should be pointed out here that if the L3 is listened to in wired mode, the noise reduction function is not affected, but the function of touch operation is turned off, because the connection with the front end at this time is only pure audio streaming.
Talk about the sound of L3, in two aspects, open noise reduction and no noise reduction, in the default noise reduction state, L3 in the energy distribution is a little similar to the e version of Alice M1 trend, low frequency powerful and solid, the middle bunk is warm and mellow, but the high frequency is not very top-notch, belongs to the slightly dim type of timbre, personal speculation is not because of the noise reduction algorithm, in the erasure of high-frequency noise in the environment at the same time, but also some of the instrument's high-frequency overtones are wiped out together. L3 in this mode, listening to all kinds of popular music is very appropriate, especially the old songs of Hong Kong and Taiwan, there is a little bit of dim meaning, very enduring to listen to nothing exciting, after all, many of the music sources in our mobile phones are still high-code MP3, and the high frequency is relatively bleak, which can perfectly avoid the defects of the sound source itself. Because of the thickness of the mid-frequency, the vocals of L3 are not particularly close to the ear, but they are still in a close proximity position, and this vocal with a certain sense of distance is more like a tavern to listen to vocal jazz. Flip through the playback records on your own mobile phone for a while to try to play L3, basically this kind of music.
If you want to listen to music that needs to show "ethereal", such as NEW AGE or some ACG, then turn off the noise reduction (or change L3 to a wired version and then turn off the noise reduction), minus the impact of the noise reduction algorithm, you will hear, L3 This large-caliber unit of high-frequency extension and information, in fact, is still quite good, and because the energy distribution as a whole moves up, in the sound field, there is also room for diffusion and improvement, it can be said that in this "original" version of the state, players can enjoy some instrumental tracks with peace of mind. Including but not limited to the aforementioned NEW AGE or ACG, small classical instrumental music or solo are remarkable, in terms of frequency density, L3 is full enough, since ancient times to get the mid-frequency of the world, not to mention the mellow and warm mid-frequency, which makes L3 in the tolerance of all kinds of music, to reach a small apex of its similar products.
According to the routine, at the end of the article, it is necessary to shout a real incense and then finish. However, put down the moment, or to spit Philips a little southern hemisphere thinking, it is now three volts of August, in fact, is not the best time for L3 to appear, Bluetooth headsets in the summer use of the scene is probably only open air conditioning office or subway bus. But this is also bitter, L3 was actually released overseas as early as the first quarter, but Philips for the product sales in China, there is a "localization" process, including optimizing the head beam according to the Asian head shape, or improving the ear cups and wearing, etc., this is a grounded job, but this way accidentally postponed the product to the summer sale, we are actually familiar with a lot of Bluetooth headphones when switching on and off the machine to say a standard "POWER ON/OFF", but to L3, You will hear the pure Mandarin "boot/shutdown", which is the result of optimization, sometimes it seems too detailed, but in fact, it will invisibly close the distance with Chinese users. It is also the humanization of a large enterprise like Philips.