The styling of the E630's may not be to all tastes and the rather brash red topped with black in ear rubbers is a little unusual, however they are very comfortable and unlike other more expensive in ear earphones they use a softer silicone compound making them fit easily and snugly. We connected the Cresyn units to our 5G iPod and selected a range of tracks to give them a stiff test.

The first thing we noticed was that there is a disproportionate lead length between the earphones leaving a lot of coiled chord hanging under your neck which is quite annoying. Otherwise the fit is generally good and as these are an in ear style that ship with a variety of silicone gels you are able to get a tight seal which aids the isolating effect without an uncomfortable deep in ear feeling.

We started with the now customary FatBoy Slim which does two things, firstly it teases out any distortion caused by high bass levels and secondly it can cause the midrange to get confused by the high bass levels. The Cresyn E630's performed well with a nice tight bass sound and yet did not distort aside from a very slight hint on the lowest fast bass notes. However the real bonus was that they retained their separation from the midrange as proved on our next test track from LP's favourites the JTQ. There is nothing worse than your bass line getting in the way of some grinding Hammond and these units managed to keep LP happy and the Chalk Pit sounding suitably funky.

Moving through a range of tracks from Jazz to classical the only negative seemed to be that the top end on vocals was blunted a bit as if some one was slicing the top of the notes off to early and we suspect we had reached the limits of the Cresyn drivers. Despite discovering some downsides the LMX E630 earphones did a more and adequate job in making our iPod sound better than the standard earbuds ever could.

This perhaps is the real message, Cresyn like a few other bargain manufacturers are able to produce a set of earphones at a price that easily beats the standard ones bundled with son many MP3 players. Not all that glitters is gold and many cheap earphones are just that, cheap. However this model retails at just £21.99 and for our money they deliver the good.

Published - 28/01/2007

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