Comments Sleek Audio SA6 Customisable Earphones - Portable Audio - review

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Sleek Audio has created an intriguing product in the SA6 earphones. They combine the sort of sound quality we'd expect from a set of single driver earphones costing around £100 with some innovative sound customising features that push the price up a bit. The result is a set of cans that succeeds in confounding the problem they set out to solve - that of not knowing what you like until you've tried it - because you're either likely to love or hate the whole customisation thing.

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8/10

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Reviewed by Edward Chester

19 September 2008

Price as reviewed

£139.95

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cjb110

1:02 PM on 11 June, 2008

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Just a thought about headphones in general, shouldn't they be as accurate as possible and leave the treble and/or bass adjustments to the source?

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Ed

3:39 PM on 30 September, 2008

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A fair point cjb110 but that simply isn't the case. All headphones have a distinct timbre and often choosing a pair of headphones is less about whether they're truly accurate or not than just whether you prefer a bassy or trebly sound.

Also, having had another listen to these earphones recently i have to say I'm even more impressed than when I first heard them. I stil maintain the adjustability brings little to the table but in their default setting these phones do sound great. Bass is strong without sounding muffled, clarity is also mightily impressive. Most of all, though, they just sound wonderfully neutral. The price is still too high to change the scores but these are definitely worth considering.

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