Yo! Been using bijou for two weeks already. Here's my mini review:

At first, it sounded realli realli realli bassy, so i leave it for burning in (using wavefiles consist of frequency sweep, noises, etc at low volume from my mp3 player). After 100 hours (i realised that my sony mp3 player battery life is loooong; oni nid to recharge it once ), improvment is obvious, but it shows lots of dark signatures as claimed.

For songs with strong bass (e.g. drop it like its' hot - snoop dogg) esp techno music, it is an advantage (for bass lovers, bijou is for ya). But for classical, pop, new age, etc, its realli bad. All the treble and mid-range are muffled by the bass.

So i went thru a torture of "don't-play-music-with-emphasis-on-high-frequency" days (you get wat me meant, me hope). That is until i played around with the equalizer.

i hooked up the high frequency bar (6.3khz and beyond) in my mp3 player, and my music realli realli realli ROX!!! Any music: pop, rock, techno, new age, classical, trance, hip hop, etc. All of them sounded realli nice! So i figured that the earphone's inducer (or izzit speaker?) is actually good, but not used in its' optimum level. After hooking up the level of high pitch, the sound produced is fine no matter which frequency, clear and no distortion whatsoever. The high pitch and midrange can be produced without trembling; every word and instrument can be heard.The bass is still strong; no loss in bass, and the bass now is "Dum!Dum!Dum!" rather than "whoomm!whooomm!whoom!".

Conclusion: if you love bass, go for it. If you love anything other than bass, buy it (or test it) and adjust the equalizer. There should be oni ONE particular adjustment of equaliser that will suit your taste, whatever the music is. Right now, i loooovveee my bijou! Good build (metal built), range of earbud's size, great casing for keeping earphone (btw, the hippocamus thing feels painful for the bijou), and worth the money too.

Now listening to Herbie Hancock's Jungle Line.

wahahah~! lol... for me, one equalizer suits for all songs in my mp3 player (jazz, pop, hip hop, techno, new age). But for some ppl, dey adjust equaliser for diff songs, which i cant realli imagine [everytime change song mahfun] . Since i don't adjust the equaliser at all (i alwiz put settings "none" for equaliser), now i using equaliser to counter the weakness of the earphone.

dark signature juz mean bassy type of trademark... erm... in other words, if an earphone were to show dark signature, it means the earphone present more bassy feature (why am i beating around the bush??). bright signature means more towards clarity of high frequency.

*since last time u asked how to increase bass in a-726, now with bijou, no nid to increase edi

yuheng,

oopsie... misunderstanding of the term signature. forgive me =D


nintendo wii,

can use your regular songs in your playlist. As long as you play songs at low volume (dun la go explode ur earphone), burning in will occur. BUT if you are doubtful, you can go download burn-in waves files. i tink at www.burninwave.com got good samples.