It’s not unusual that earphones these days just fall away from your ear as if something yanked it out, and totally destroy the music-listening experience. That’s where sports-centric earphones come in. I’d personally rate them as “sport-grade” instead since they can withstand the roughest maneuvers when worn – just like how industrial-grade products can withstand the toughest conditions.
That’s where the SonicGear Earpump Sport 2 comes in. It claims to be a sport-grade earphone while maintaining an incredible price. How does it hold up? Let’s find out!
The packaging looks fairy simple, with the earphones themselves showing through the transparent plastic at the side.
The SonicGear Earpump Sport 2 also included a single-button in-line control with a built-in microphone in it.
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Funnily, SonicGear has some fondness to include the in-line control to the left side of the earbud… And I’m really glad they did – because I’m a leftie! 😛
[nextpage title=”Listening test”]First of all, the test begins with me putting on the SonicGear Earpump Sport 2 on my ears first, obviously. Every single sport-grade earphones that I’ve played around with had a different “mounting” mechanism, where some of them require the user to perform some randomly awkward ritual to put it in – but not this one.
The SonicGear Earpump Sport 2 is pretty straightforward to put on. Rotate the support loop there the gap can enter my ear from the top, then rotate the support loop to go in my ears directly. Then, plug the eartips into my ears, and I’m set to go! It’s quick, easy, and definitely accurate yet painless.
The usual listening test right here – Adventure Time by Rogue. The beginning part sounded a little messy, and when the bass comes, it’s just distortion all the way. First of the Year (Equinox) by Skrillex is out of the question too. Practically speaking, anything with intense synthesized bass just doesn’t play well in high volume.
I tried Battle Medley 2012 [FINAL FANTASY I~XIV] by the FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, and it sounded balanced for sure. The bass wasn’t too heavy, yet the low frequencies were played well in this case, since they’re not as heavy as Adventure Time. Mids sound decent, but the highs are a little mediocre, as it sorta reach my expectations halfway, and somewhat fell short at some intense highs.. Also, it felt like the volume is muffled, but increasing the volume did fix the job.
Then I went on and try some other songs that I have, and I found out that the sound quality is pretty much hit or miss – it works well on certain songs, but some of them just sound painful on this pair of earphones. Soundstage is okay – it did manage to deal with the front and middle section of the stage well, but not the rear.
[nextpage title=”Wrap up”]It’s a tough conclusion to make – it sounds not entirely bad, and the build quality is certainly questionable, but they had some good compromises to make a workable design. The sound quality however is up for debate – for me, certain song sounds painful.
I do have to highlight though – SonicGear Earpump Sport 2’s sport-grade loop really does work great. Easy and quick to put on.
For the price though, the SonicGear Earpump Sport 2 only costs RM59.90 on Leapfrog’s official Lazada page. Wanna get a budget pair of sport-grade earphone? Try this, it might suit you nicely.
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