The trouble with most headphones is that they really don’t have enough oomph in the bass department. Love the trend or hate it, today’s popular music really makes use of bass to help you get your groove on (and, unfortunately, rattle your windows as a “boom car” drives by so slowly, it’s almost loitering). Likewise,
movies punctuate the falling down and blowing up of large objects with chestbuzzing bass, thanks to your home theater system’s subwoofer.
It’s true that it’s physically difficult to reproduce very low frequencies with speakers small enough to fit in earcup-style headphones (let alone earbuds), but Genius pulls it off with its GHP-05 Live. These inexpensive headphones are nice and comfortable, thanks to their thick, velvetcovered pads. The headset has a lengthy cord, plus an extension cable.Genius thoughtfully included detents and marks in the headstrap band, so it’s easy to return it to your favorite settings if the adjustment gets off-kilter.
The GHP-05 Live ’phones sound really good when their batteries are fresh. Their DRD True3D Sound processing and respectable speakers do an admirable job of pumping out deep bass, right-next-to-you midrange sound, and clean treble. The remarkable thing is that the GHP-05 Live’s emphasized bass doesn’t seem out of place. It doesn’t walk all over the mids and highs; in fact, no part of the songs and movies I listened to seemed too loud, too soft, or muddled.
On the downside, it only took about eight to 10 hours for fresh batteries to wear down enough to give the audio a buzzy edge (this happened to me several times). Also, if you carry these phones in a bag or a backpack, their pushbutton power switch can accidentally turn on. And if the two AAA batteries wear down, you won’t be able to hear a thing through the headphones. If you plan to use the GHP-05 Live every day, better invest in some batteries you can recharge overnight.
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