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so let's take a look at the SHP 9,500 from Philips you can pick these up for around about fifty dollars and people all over the internet are raving about how good they are but exactly how good are they let's find out welcome back to tokyo city ladies and gentlemen this is brian coming back to you guys today with a review of the philips s HP 9500 s now this is sort of for me it's going to be a mixed bag though ultimately for the money these are very good headphones so first off we'll go over the build quality then we'll talk about the sound quality and also the comfort and all that juicy stuff solely in the SHP 9500 s themselves they're made of plastic and metal and the design is really good they're extremely comfortable they're extremely flexible and honestly I wish Philips had have done this design on the philips x ones the fidelia's I found they were just too fatiguing after a long time however these on the other hand are extremely comfortable and you will not get any neck fatigue after using them for long hours so they're very comfortable looking at the top of the headphone you've got here Philips written on here and it's kind of like a hard plastic that they've used below that is a head strap there for comfort which is kind of this cloth material which is touted as being antiperspirant though in practice I find this material made my ears sweat a lot especially compared to my Fidelio L ones or the previous X ones that I've used in the past this same material continues down to the ear pads which are non removable which is kind of a bummer since I would like to honestly take these off once in a while and run them through the washing machine so it's kind of a bummer as they do absorb sweat and it kind of has this even after using them for about a month now I've kind of got this little bit of a gross feeling to these ear pads though that being said looking at the side we've got a really nice design here with a little bit of metal integrated with plastic and you've got the L written there on one side and there are written there to let you know which is your left and right looking below that you've got a 3.5 millimeter jack which will allow you to make this headphone with a V mode of burn pro so you can essentially have one awesome gaming headset now look at the adjustable headphone here you've got a metal clip in here which is very solid and it's very nice like I like the feedback that you get from this clip and the actual clamping force is actually pretty loose I'm surprised I would say I have a medium-sized head and these clamp on just at the right comfort they're very comfortable lastly about the design they are an open-back headphones so noise will leak and however the benefit is you will be able to hear everything around you if you're at home I consider this a good thing though if you're out in public I consider this a bad thing so that being said everyone's probably wondering how do these headphones sound brain and I'm going to tell you straight up that they sound very good in all kinds of genre the the sub-base is kind of lacking though that's to be expected on an open-back headphone the bass is at a nice little level you will get some decent bass out of these headphones and the mids are still there they're still solid medicines one thing I love about Philips is they always consider the mids in all the headphones I've tried the Fidelio ones the Fidelio x ones and now the sh p 9500 s they always hit that mark on just giving used nice solid mids now one thing about this is the treble is a little bit up there though I found it to be quite comfortable still especially compared to some of the other headphones I've tried in the past I like where the treble is out as well I'll try and pull up a frequency response curve for you guys but you can see honestly I had no problems eeeek ewing down the treble a little bit and making these a very balanced sound I know some people have put cloth mods on there and felt mods on there to reduce the trouble but your mileage may vary I honestly found these headphones really nice out of the box to listen to EQ or non eq'd though lastly people are probably wondering how's the 3d imaging how do they sound are they better than the Fidelio x ones and the answer to this is quite simply no I do not consider these an x1 replacement or an x1 contender I remember having my X ones on and the 3d imaging on that was superb it was phenomenal they're in a different class I still consider the Fidelio X ones and most likely the Fidelio X twos which I haven't tried yet I still consider them on a different level though how do they compare to the Fidelio L ones I would say they're around about the same they have similar soundstage in my opinion though these have a little bit more juicier bass and they're a little bit warmer and honestly I do like the material inside the Fidelio ones a little bit better than these they don't tend to sweat as much and the isil a little bit better though I don't care about the isolation too much as long as I can hear things outside so on all these headphones are quite simply phenomenal for fifty dollars the quality of the sound that you're getting and also the decent 3d imaging for fifty dollars is really superb not to mention that they are an extremely comfortable headset though I will give them I will deduct some points for not having these ear pads being replaceable at the very least not even removable if I have to try and remove them I will break the headphones so that is a bummer because I do believe they're absorb sweat though they tend to absorb a lot of sweat and they become kind of yucky even just for me after using them for a month so again your mileage may vary though they are an excellent headphone for fifty dollars and if you want to couple them with say a $30 v motor boom Pro then you'll have one awesome gaming headset for under $100 now that being said guys I hope you enjoyed this review and if you did please give it a 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