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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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Let me start of by saying that these earphones do sound really good but only when they actually work and I have now twice had horrific experiences with their build quality and customer service. I bought these with a lot of excitement and after doing a lot of research I was convinced that these had fantastic sound quality and exceptional build materials backed with a lifetime guarantee.
When I first received them, the headphones started falling apart after the first two weeks. Initially one of the earphones would only output a very very low volume while the other was fine and soon after that both earphones started to break apart at the cable joint. I called customer support and they asked me to ship in the earphones for replacement within 3 weeks. I did and then for more than 3 months went through torture as Monster refused to provide me with any estimated time for resolution. I live in Australia so calling customer support means staying up till 2 am on a week night. I had to do this many times as Monster sis not even once respond to my many emails. When I was able to get them on the phone [1 hour waiting time on average] the only answer I ever got was that they were out of stock and did not know when they will be able to provide me with a replacement [all this time MTPCs were being sold with plenty of available stock through many retailers]. Request for a refund got me transferred to a "manager" who never got on the line after an additional hour and a half of waiting on the line [this all from a phone call from Australia at 3 am in the morning]
Finally they sent my a replacement set and these sounded good for 2 months but now the left earphone is coming apart and has a very pronounced buzzing noise which makes it unusable. I have thought about sending these in for warranty replacement but i cannot go through the torture again.
For headphones which are supposed to be "as good as they get" my experience with the MTPCs could not have been any worse if they had tried. The sound is good, but it just does not work.
When I first received them, the headphones started falling apart after the first two weeks. Initially one of the earphones would only output a very very low volume while the other was fine and soon after that both earphones started to break apart at the cable joint. I called customer support and they asked me to ship in the earphones for replacement within 3 weeks. I did and then for more than 3 months went through torture as Monster refused to provide me with any estimated time for resolution. I live in Australia so calling customer support means staying up till 2 am on a week night. I had to do this many times as Monster sis not even once respond to my many emails. When I was able to get them on the phone [1 hour waiting time on average] the only answer I ever got was that they were out of stock and did not know when they will be able to provide me with a replacement [all this time MTPCs were being sold with plenty of available stock through many retailers]. Request for a refund got me transferred to a "manager" who never got on the line after an additional hour and a half of waiting on the line [this all from a phone call from Australia at 3 am in the morning]
Finally they sent my a replacement set and these sounded good for 2 months but now the left earphone is coming apart and has a very pronounced buzzing noise which makes it unusable. I have thought about sending these in for warranty replacement but i cannot go through the torture again.
For headphones which are supposed to be "as good as they get" my experience with the MTPCs could not have been any worse if they had tried. The sound is good, but it just does not work.
42 of 48 people found the following review helpful
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The Monster Turbine Pro Copper (MTPC, or just Copper, below) is, without a doubt, the *BEST* *SOUNDING* *HEADPHONE* I have ever used, and I've used a lot... couple of specific points.
Bass response. I love organ music - and organ music sometimes has deep bass that (almost) no other recorded music approaches. For example, on some of the recordings of the Saint-Saëns 3rd Symphony (the "Organ Symphony") there are fundamental tones as low as 16Hz. No home speaker system will reproduce these accurately at reasonable volume without a subwoofer - at least, none that I know of. You might get a "doubling" of the fundamental tone (2nd harmonic) at a fairly high level at 32Hz, and think you're hearing the right note, but you're not. In fact, you can't really "hear" it - you more or less "feel" it. My Sennheiser HD600 headphones can hint fairly strongly at the deepest notes, but you're not going to feel like you're in a concert hall with a massive organ moving enough air to lift you out of your seat. The Coppers, uniquely in my experience, actually got the tone and timbre, the shear majesty of the music, right. I've heard this performed live a few times in a concert hall that had an organ that could perform this piece the way the composer wanted - and the Coppers made me feel like I was back there. I tried many IEM's before I tried these, and none of them came close in the really, really deep bass department. Which makes me all the sadder (see below.)
Impact (transient response, speed, whatever you want to call it.) Wow. No, wait a second... *WOW* Sit in a small club with a rock band. Sit close. Wince when the drummer starts letting loose. *THWACK* and you blink and jump back a bit in your seat. There's a visceral impact you get live that you (almost never) get listening to a recording. Most recordings don't really capture it, and for those few that do, finding a way to play it back so recreate that impact is not easy. Really good speakers with enough power from a really good source can sort of do it. Really good headphones properly driven can also do it, though it's different - the "thwack" is there, but it's outside coming in, not inside letting loose. ("What did he say???") With the Coppers, the first time I put on Muse - Uprising I not only jumped and blinked, I realized I'd never, ever heard a recording that sounded "real" in this regard. Never. Which makes me all the sadder...
Other stuff - midrange, high end, transparency, soundstage, imaging, tone, timber, pace, rhythm, vocals, yada yada yada - the Coppers were at least as good as any other headphone (or speaker, for that matter) that I've ever used. The only possible criticism I could offer of their sound is the dynamics might even be a bit expanded - sort of like running a non-encoded signal through a dBX decoder, for you old guys out there. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether the Coppers are more right, and simply reproducing the dynamic range with less compression than I'm used to hearing, or whether the Coppers are editorializing a bit. They're dynamic as all get out, though. Which makes me all the sadder...
I simply cannot use these. I spent hours and hours fussing with every tip included with the Coppers - and that's a lot of tips - and not *ONE* *SINGLE* *ONE* of them fit me right. I guess I have weird ears or oddly shaped canals or something, because I've not heard others with this problem, but it drove me absolutely nuts. I could, at times, by pushing and prodding and twisting and tweeking and pulling and swearing, get a fit that let me hear what these things could do. But it only lasted until I took the phones out - the next time I tried to put them back in, I'd start with the rigamarole all over again, sometimes achieving a good seal, mostly not. I even tried 3rd party tips - head-fi dot org has many suggestions - but even those didn't work for me. One Saturday afternoon in a fit of extreme stubbornness I spent (literally) five hours trying every which way with every tip I had to get a decent seal, and all I managed to do was mess up my left ear to the point where it was two days before I could hear properly out of that side. Think all the popping caused by the vacuum when pulling the phones out (and in and out and in and out and in) caused some significant irritation.
I finally gave up and sent them back.
This is not unique to me with the Coppers. I've tried other brands of IEM's and none of them fit me either. Go figure. I guess some people just aren't meant to use IEM phones. Which is a real bummer, because they really do sound wonderful.
Please don't let this review steer you away from these - far from it. I promise you they sound simply amazing. Just be aware that for at least one person who wrote a review, they couldn't get them to fit. Which is a good reason to by from Amazon, of course - if you get these and they don't work, you can always return them.
Be careful with you ears, though. If they don't fit, no amount of stubborn attempts at jamming them in will solve the problem. Trust me on that.
Bass response. I love organ music - and organ music sometimes has deep bass that (almost) no other recorded music approaches. For example, on some of the recordings of the Saint-Saëns 3rd Symphony (the "Organ Symphony") there are fundamental tones as low as 16Hz. No home speaker system will reproduce these accurately at reasonable volume without a subwoofer - at least, none that I know of. You might get a "doubling" of the fundamental tone (2nd harmonic) at a fairly high level at 32Hz, and think you're hearing the right note, but you're not. In fact, you can't really "hear" it - you more or less "feel" it. My Sennheiser HD600 headphones can hint fairly strongly at the deepest notes, but you're not going to feel like you're in a concert hall with a massive organ moving enough air to lift you out of your seat. The Coppers, uniquely in my experience, actually got the tone and timbre, the shear majesty of the music, right. I've heard this performed live a few times in a concert hall that had an organ that could perform this piece the way the composer wanted - and the Coppers made me feel like I was back there. I tried many IEM's before I tried these, and none of them came close in the really, really deep bass department. Which makes me all the sadder (see below.)
Impact (transient response, speed, whatever you want to call it.) Wow. No, wait a second... *WOW* Sit in a small club with a rock band. Sit close. Wince when the drummer starts letting loose. *THWACK* and you blink and jump back a bit in your seat. There's a visceral impact you get live that you (almost never) get listening to a recording. Most recordings don't really capture it, and for those few that do, finding a way to play it back so recreate that impact is not easy. Really good speakers with enough power from a really good source can sort of do it. Really good headphones properly driven can also do it, though it's different - the "thwack" is there, but it's outside coming in, not inside letting loose. ("What did he say???") With the Coppers, the first time I put on Muse - Uprising I not only jumped and blinked, I realized I'd never, ever heard a recording that sounded "real" in this regard. Never. Which makes me all the sadder...
Other stuff - midrange, high end, transparency, soundstage, imaging, tone, timber, pace, rhythm, vocals, yada yada yada - the Coppers were at least as good as any other headphone (or speaker, for that matter) that I've ever used. The only possible criticism I could offer of their sound is the dynamics might even be a bit expanded - sort of like running a non-encoded signal through a dBX decoder, for you old guys out there. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether the Coppers are more right, and simply reproducing the dynamic range with less compression than I'm used to hearing, or whether the Coppers are editorializing a bit. They're dynamic as all get out, though. Which makes me all the sadder...
I simply cannot use these. I spent hours and hours fussing with every tip included with the Coppers - and that's a lot of tips - and not *ONE* *SINGLE* *ONE* of them fit me right. I guess I have weird ears or oddly shaped canals or something, because I've not heard others with this problem, but it drove me absolutely nuts. I could, at times, by pushing and prodding and twisting and tweeking and pulling and swearing, get a fit that let me hear what these things could do. But it only lasted until I took the phones out - the next time I tried to put them back in, I'd start with the rigamarole all over again, sometimes achieving a good seal, mostly not. I even tried 3rd party tips - head-fi dot org has many suggestions - but even those didn't work for me. One Saturday afternoon in a fit of extreme stubbornness I spent (literally) five hours trying every which way with every tip I had to get a decent seal, and all I managed to do was mess up my left ear to the point where it was two days before I could hear properly out of that side. Think all the popping caused by the vacuum when pulling the phones out (and in and out and in and out and in) caused some significant irritation.
I finally gave up and sent them back.
This is not unique to me with the Coppers. I've tried other brands of IEM's and none of them fit me either. Go figure. I guess some people just aren't meant to use IEM phones. Which is a real bummer, because they really do sound wonderful.
Please don't let this review steer you away from these - far from it. I promise you they sound simply amazing. Just be aware that for at least one person who wrote a review, they couldn't get them to fit. Which is a good reason to by from Amazon, of course - if you get these and they don't work, you can always return them.
Be careful with you ears, though. If they don't fit, no amount of stubborn attempts at jamming them in will solve the problem. Trust me on that.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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I received the Pro Turbine Copper In-Ear-Monitors as a generous "sample pair" in the recent MONSTER CHALLENGE by my own request...in exchange for an honest review. I had always wanted to hear them and so I jumped at the chance to put them through the paces. I feel incredibly lucky that I have been able to listen to and even own some incredible high-end gear, all within about a year and a couple of months of using Apple iBuds! There's a lot to learn about and enjoy in this hobby (audio, music, gear). One of the things that I'm most thankful for is knowing that I'll never be going back to "bad" sound again...
As for earphones, I have had all of the Yuin PK Series earbuds, the HiFiMan RE-0's, Sennheiser IE8's, and have settled on the Ultimate Ears Triple-Fi 10's and the Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors.
For Large Headphones, I have settled on the Grado RS2i, the Grado HF-2, the Alessandro MS1 (being modified), and the Sennheiser HD600.
I did less comparing and more listening to understand what the Coppers sounded like. If I compare to the Triple-Fi 10 often it is because I actually have them right now as opposed to making comparisons by memory.
SOUND FIRST:
BASS: Warm, lots- some really good slam. These "ear speakers" go low and give some rumble like I have not heard a Balanced Armature iem do (yet). Wouldn't want more bass than this. Great amount of full/fun bass to me.
MIDS: Good amount of midrange, very warm though...not the clearest.
TREBLE: Here they seem "just right" or "just north of neutral" (which I seem to prefer in my treble). I think they balance well in the presentation to add detail to the warm bass and midrange. A little peaky. I tend to like treble so some might think it a bit much. I certainly don't think it's too much, I think it is necessary. (But then I like Grados!)
OVERALL: A nice balance/amount of everything, but a bit warm/natural/relaxed in the midrange and full in bass so the Coppers can give a feeling of a lack of speed/clarity. Lush, warm, relaxed, enjoyable listening without "digital" harshness. Sounds like a nice warm speaker set-up with some "Loudness" and some treble EQ'd up instead of a "bright" or "analytical" neutral monitoring system to me.
In comparison to my Triple-Fi 10 which many have heard and are not <too> far off in price ($188 vs. $219 on Amazon.com):
-Coppers win on warm bass + slam by a bit and TF10 win for sparkly treble/upper mids by a bit.
-Coppers win for natural or laid back listening presentation and TF10 win for speed/clarity (though there is bloom in the TF10 bass too).
I recently found this updated repository of Frequency Response and other data:
The charts won't tell you everything but it seems pretty consistent with what my impressions are...
(Now I will try some different set-ups of gear with reference tracks to get a sense of how the sources/amps can work with or tune the Copper "sound"...here are some notes.)
GEAR USED:
-Mac G5 via Optical out to Benchmark DAC1 and built-in amp (Main System)
-Sony X portable player (no effects or EQ unless noted) ~$230
-AMB mini^3 portable amp (made to gain of 2, High Performance option by Mister X- no relation to Sony) $130
-iBasso D12 portable DAC/Amp (with stock L/R opamps and dummy buffers installed) $285
The Coppers are very revealing of source and amp characteristics. They can be used straight out of a portable player and I recommend to do that for a while to learn and get used to the Copper "sound" and also to see how well you can get the Coppers to sound with your player. Then when you have an idea of any areas you would like to improve or modify, you can start shopping for an amp if you want to try one. A headphone amp can add bass impact, widen the soundstage and provide more imaging of instruments, or make the instruments more "punchy" and/or clear. I'm now surprised when I see purchases of portable amps before receiving and listening to the phones that will be used. (Hey, a year ago I didn't believe in any change from a headphone amp at all...)
Starting out listening with the Sony X and the AMB mini^3 portable amp to some Pop, Rock, Classical, and Soundtracks...
David Gray, White Ladder "Please Forgive Me": No sibilance (my sibilance test track), but there is still sparkle on the percussion...lots of low and midrange warmth for a big, lush presentation with some detail. At 4:28 you hear the cymbals clearly AND get the sub-bass hit. Listening with the Benchmark DAC1, there is much tighter, defined imaging and instrument separation on the cymbals, more control of the bass (tighter), but mids seem a little more recessed. More bass impact with Sony and the mini^3 plus the mids are a bit more forward. The mini^3 seems a bit brighter so it all seems a bit clearer, but also closer together in instrument presentation (narrow soundstage).
Massive Attack, 100th Window "Everywhen" (with Benchmark DAC1): Massive Attack has been a reference band for all of my phones. I am not always listening to Massive Attack (or drinking Dos Equis) but when phones have impact, Massive Attack shows it. In fact, the BIG bass of Massive Attack may be causing a little sporadic crackling in the right driver which has "flexed" under the pressure of the ear vacuum seal...I will have to monitor that. (See my description of "driver flex" under these listening notes.) As far as the sound goes, nothing is harsh though there is high-end shimmer. I find I turn it up and don't get harsh high-end but a big and full low to the midrange sound. There's impact but it isn't too much high-energy in the treble or too hard hitting in the bass so as to cause fatigue. (Might actually be able to listen to Massive Attack all day and enjoy it with these...) The warmth here is a plus.
Need to explain "driver flex": At first I had some problems with "driver flex" which may occur when there is too much of a vacuum (or air pressure that affects the driver). I could make the right driver "flex" out of position within the housing. I could hear the driver "flex" or "pop" out of position and stop working. After playing with the driver and the pressure in my ear, it adjusts or "pops" back into place and makes sound again. The Quick Start Guide warns not to place the tips too far into the canals or to get too much of a vacuum built up. I have also found in customs that you want a decent seal but not "too much of a vacuum" or the drivers can't work properly and/or sound can't travel properly. So, after warming up the tips and then twisting them to get a better (but-not-too-strong-of-a) seal, the driver flex occurrence became rare with practice. (I might have caused it by wanting to stick the whole thing in my ear when I got them since I am now used to customs. (One of the benefits of customs is a very positive fit and a great seal but you can still be aware of them filling your whole ears, one of the benefits of Universals is that the tips can be comfortable enough as to not really feel them. They both take practice and getting used to them. It's worth the hassle to get the sound wherever and whenever you want it.)
Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid "Mirrorball" (with the Benchmark): Wow...the kick-drum just seemed to move air in my head and the strings are smooth and beautiful while the vocals remain very intimate and detailed. This is a showcase for how beautiful the Coppers can sound. I wondered if this would test the Coppers' resolution and sound congested as Elbow tests some phones and systems with complex sound. Instead, I don't want to move to the next track...very, very nice! In fact, I did jump around more Elbow and to Cast of Thousands "Fugitive": Something works really well here and Elbow is just amazing with the big-sounding Coppers. ANTHEMIC, not anemic (at all).
Jeff Buckley, Grace "Hallelujah" (with Benchmark DAC1): Thought this warm track would be smooth and pretty. It is, but with some added warmth of the Coppers it loses a bit of "space" or "air" that gives the track an even more intimate and disconsolate feel...
Talk Talk, Laughing Stock "New Grass" (with Benchmark) is just a big, lush, warm field to lie in. Everything sings, resonates, and rings. A touch "wooly" in the midrange with regards to clarity, however.
Pink Floyd, DSOTM "Time" (with Benchmark): The intro is a good way to check for treble "sparkle" and the Coppers have it, not too bright either. Then the guitar and drums come in and you can hear that the vocals are nice in quality, the sparkle is there, and the bass is prominent in quantity. Big Bass.
Mozart: Requiem In D Minor, K 626 - Sequentia: Rex Tremendae (Sony X with mini^3): The Coppers sound great with a lot of classical music to me, I was especially impressed with the way they sounded with this track. The Coppers didn't sound recessed or bumped along the frequency range with this piece.
Radiohead- Extra Track, The King of Limbs "Supercollider" (with Benchmark): The glitchy, reverberating bass tells you that you have one heck of a seal because it feels like a really big, tight rubberband is being snapped in your ear canals. Vocals are floating on top and are definitely at a lower level than the bass. But it is such a cool sensation that it doesn't really matter right now...
The way the Coppers sound with the bit of classical music I tried led me to guess that these are really good iems for soundtracks. A problem with some iems is that they cannot produce the fullness or the rumble that you get and expect in a theater...since the Coppers have a strong bass presence they should be good (and they are)... Read more ›
As for earphones, I have had all of the Yuin PK Series earbuds, the HiFiMan RE-0's, Sennheiser IE8's, and have settled on the Ultimate Ears Triple-Fi 10's and the Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors.
For Large Headphones, I have settled on the Grado RS2i, the Grado HF-2, the Alessandro MS1 (being modified), and the Sennheiser HD600.
I did less comparing and more listening to understand what the Coppers sounded like. If I compare to the Triple-Fi 10 often it is because I actually have them right now as opposed to making comparisons by memory.
SOUND FIRST:
BASS: Warm, lots- some really good slam. These "ear speakers" go low and give some rumble like I have not heard a Balanced Armature iem do (yet). Wouldn't want more bass than this. Great amount of full/fun bass to me.
MIDS: Good amount of midrange, very warm though...not the clearest.
TREBLE: Here they seem "just right" or "just north of neutral" (which I seem to prefer in my treble). I think they balance well in the presentation to add detail to the warm bass and midrange. A little peaky. I tend to like treble so some might think it a bit much. I certainly don't think it's too much, I think it is necessary. (But then I like Grados!)
OVERALL: A nice balance/amount of everything, but a bit warm/natural/relaxed in the midrange and full in bass so the Coppers can give a feeling of a lack of speed/clarity. Lush, warm, relaxed, enjoyable listening without "digital" harshness. Sounds like a nice warm speaker set-up with some "Loudness" and some treble EQ'd up instead of a "bright" or "analytical" neutral monitoring system to me.
In comparison to my Triple-Fi 10 which many have heard and are not <too> far off in price ($188 vs. $219 on Amazon.com):
-Coppers win on warm bass + slam by a bit and TF10 win for sparkly treble/upper mids by a bit.
-Coppers win for natural or laid back listening presentation and TF10 win for speed/clarity (though there is bloom in the TF10 bass too).
I recently found this updated repository of Frequency Response and other data:
The charts won't tell you everything but it seems pretty consistent with what my impressions are...
(Now I will try some different set-ups of gear with reference tracks to get a sense of how the sources/amps can work with or tune the Copper "sound"...here are some notes.)
GEAR USED:
-Mac G5 via Optical out to Benchmark DAC1 and built-in amp (Main System)
-Sony X portable player (no effects or EQ unless noted) ~$230
-AMB mini^3 portable amp (made to gain of 2, High Performance option by Mister X- no relation to Sony) $130
-iBasso D12 portable DAC/Amp (with stock L/R opamps and dummy buffers installed) $285
The Coppers are very revealing of source and amp characteristics. They can be used straight out of a portable player and I recommend to do that for a while to learn and get used to the Copper "sound" and also to see how well you can get the Coppers to sound with your player. Then when you have an idea of any areas you would like to improve or modify, you can start shopping for an amp if you want to try one. A headphone amp can add bass impact, widen the soundstage and provide more imaging of instruments, or make the instruments more "punchy" and/or clear. I'm now surprised when I see purchases of portable amps before receiving and listening to the phones that will be used. (Hey, a year ago I didn't believe in any change from a headphone amp at all...)
Starting out listening with the Sony X and the AMB mini^3 portable amp to some Pop, Rock, Classical, and Soundtracks...
David Gray, White Ladder "Please Forgive Me": No sibilance (my sibilance test track), but there is still sparkle on the percussion...lots of low and midrange warmth for a big, lush presentation with some detail. At 4:28 you hear the cymbals clearly AND get the sub-bass hit. Listening with the Benchmark DAC1, there is much tighter, defined imaging and instrument separation on the cymbals, more control of the bass (tighter), but mids seem a little more recessed. More bass impact with Sony and the mini^3 plus the mids are a bit more forward. The mini^3 seems a bit brighter so it all seems a bit clearer, but also closer together in instrument presentation (narrow soundstage).
Massive Attack, 100th Window "Everywhen" (with Benchmark DAC1): Massive Attack has been a reference band for all of my phones. I am not always listening to Massive Attack (or drinking Dos Equis) but when phones have impact, Massive Attack shows it. In fact, the BIG bass of Massive Attack may be causing a little sporadic crackling in the right driver which has "flexed" under the pressure of the ear vacuum seal...I will have to monitor that. (See my description of "driver flex" under these listening notes.) As far as the sound goes, nothing is harsh though there is high-end shimmer. I find I turn it up and don't get harsh high-end but a big and full low to the midrange sound. There's impact but it isn't too much high-energy in the treble or too hard hitting in the bass so as to cause fatigue. (Might actually be able to listen to Massive Attack all day and enjoy it with these...) The warmth here is a plus.
Need to explain "driver flex": At first I had some problems with "driver flex" which may occur when there is too much of a vacuum (or air pressure that affects the driver). I could make the right driver "flex" out of position within the housing. I could hear the driver "flex" or "pop" out of position and stop working. After playing with the driver and the pressure in my ear, it adjusts or "pops" back into place and makes sound again. The Quick Start Guide warns not to place the tips too far into the canals or to get too much of a vacuum built up. I have also found in customs that you want a decent seal but not "too much of a vacuum" or the drivers can't work properly and/or sound can't travel properly. So, after warming up the tips and then twisting them to get a better (but-not-too-strong-of-a) seal, the driver flex occurrence became rare with practice. (I might have caused it by wanting to stick the whole thing in my ear when I got them since I am now used to customs. (One of the benefits of customs is a very positive fit and a great seal but you can still be aware of them filling your whole ears, one of the benefits of Universals is that the tips can be comfortable enough as to not really feel them. They both take practice and getting used to them. It's worth the hassle to get the sound wherever and whenever you want it.)
Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid "Mirrorball" (with the Benchmark): Wow...the kick-drum just seemed to move air in my head and the strings are smooth and beautiful while the vocals remain very intimate and detailed. This is a showcase for how beautiful the Coppers can sound. I wondered if this would test the Coppers' resolution and sound congested as Elbow tests some phones and systems with complex sound. Instead, I don't want to move to the next track...very, very nice! In fact, I did jump around more Elbow and to Cast of Thousands "Fugitive": Something works really well here and Elbow is just amazing with the big-sounding Coppers. ANTHEMIC, not anemic (at all).
Jeff Buckley, Grace "Hallelujah" (with Benchmark DAC1): Thought this warm track would be smooth and pretty. It is, but with some added warmth of the Coppers it loses a bit of "space" or "air" that gives the track an even more intimate and disconsolate feel...
Talk Talk, Laughing Stock "New Grass" (with Benchmark) is just a big, lush, warm field to lie in. Everything sings, resonates, and rings. A touch "wooly" in the midrange with regards to clarity, however.
Pink Floyd, DSOTM "Time" (with Benchmark): The intro is a good way to check for treble "sparkle" and the Coppers have it, not too bright either. Then the guitar and drums come in and you can hear that the vocals are nice in quality, the sparkle is there, and the bass is prominent in quantity. Big Bass.
Mozart: Requiem In D Minor, K 626 - Sequentia: Rex Tremendae (Sony X with mini^3): The Coppers sound great with a lot of classical music to me, I was especially impressed with the way they sounded with this track. The Coppers didn't sound recessed or bumped along the frequency range with this piece.
Radiohead- Extra Track, The King of Limbs "Supercollider" (with Benchmark): The glitchy, reverberating bass tells you that you have one heck of a seal because it feels like a really big, tight rubberband is being snapped in your ear canals. Vocals are floating on top and are definitely at a lower level than the bass. But it is such a cool sensation that it doesn't really matter right now...
The way the Coppers sound with the bit of classical music I tried led me to guess that these are really good iems for soundtracks. A problem with some iems is that they cannot produce the fullness or the rumble that you get and expect in a theater...since the Coppers have a strong bass presence they should be good (and they are)... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Ear buds pure and simply awesome
I did plenty of research on ear buds before I decided on the Copper Turbine PRO by Monster. It began with a temptation to try bluetooth technology, but there was not a single pair... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Scott Renaux
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beyond superb!!!
As a musician and life long audiophile I would not have believed any headphones let alone in-ear buds could rival my
reference audio system.....Well!! Read more
reference audio system.....Well!! Read more
Published 3 months ago by jazophile
4.0 out of 5 stars
fast shipping good condition
I like the price and the quality of this new turbine pro.While the new one changed the cover but the website havn't.I hope I got the genuine Monster...
Published 3 months ago by ZhangYifan
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is an innovative earphone
Good sound and user-friendly package and global warranty until everything is highest.Has not had a good rumor by Dr. Dre existing monster has definitely changed.Is the best.
Published 4 months ago by Minsoo Kim
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good sound
An perfect earphone, but just good at pop/rock. Also, I found it can supply an amazing performance on Chinese classic music.
Published 7 months ago by Smlucifer
5.0 out of 5 stars
awesome headphones
clear sound, deep bass.I bought some time ago and I stayed home to listen to all kinds of music, I finally found a headset that excites me
Published 7 months ago by Francisco
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good highs and lows / very balanced earphones!
They look sexy, only thing i would like is them having a better quality cord :). They are very balanced earphones and having amazing clarity with a good amount of bass, it would be... Read more
Published 7 months ago by bwong247
3.0 out of 5 stars
Horribly Decent
I bought these headphones after doing a lot of research about them, and was unfortunately not pleased with the sound quality. I mean for $400 bucks these are a rip-off. Read more
Published 7 months ago by SC
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice product
love this product.
PROS AND CONS
pro - 1.nice base and good mid,trevel . wide sound range and no noise from outside(seriously i cant hear anything from... Read more
PROS AND CONS
pro - 1.nice base and good mid,trevel . wide sound range and no noise from outside(seriously i cant hear anything from... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Kyeongwoo Nam
