 The fractal design to find our four case gets featured on the WAN show build logs the week section more than any other case. Click now to learn more about it. So when Minishio reached out to me about unboxing the 9s I was a little bit skeptical because they looked to me at first glance like fashion earphones which I really do just try to avoid talking about altogether because if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all. So I replied to them and I basically went look if they don't sound good I'm gonna just tear them apart. I'm just gonna give them a terrible terrible unboxing and overview and I'm gonna say that they sound bad and they went no no no they sound really good and for a hundred and seventy dollars and headphones that are like shaped like bullets that fit in your ears I was like okay well they're either all show and no go or they legitimately sound good and they just have like a really cool sort of fashion sense. So without further ado this is my unboxing of the Minishio 9s SLV. They are titanium coated they are constructed out of solid copper okay they have three different sizes of what they call ha ha hollow tips so those are the silicon caps silicone not silicon silicone caps that go on top of them to fit in your ears and they really do look like the housings of 9 millimeter rounds sticking out of your ears which is extremely cool they're available in a variety of colors which you can check out on their website and I mean okay okay so here there's a couple things so because they're constructed from copper they are quite heavy so they actually come with two ear clips that look at little something like that you've also got a little clip for the wire that's included in their nice little carry bag which is actually quite stylish got a nice little orange accent in there and then there's another pouch for putting presumably the actual headphones themselves and it closes magnetically I like that good design oh look at that the loop on it as well all right okay I'm down for that we've got a Minishio card that makes you feel premium as well as a manual warranty they have a two-year warranty next up we've got ah yes this is it the earphones themselves so they are made for iPod made for iPad and iPhone which means that the inline controls here which are able to control voice as well as volume up and down and track skipping by clicking multiple times that's only going to work on iOS devices overall the construction of them feels very solid but this is what you'd expect from sort of fashion headphones as well 24 karat gold plating on the connector which will only matter if you unplug and plug them in like a billion times nice knurled finish on this connector right here though like that lots of grip on it and then they're nice little branding there they've got a Kevlar reinforced braided cable which is only important if you have cats that tend to chew up your earphones which some of us do so I'm not even I'm not even gonna make fun of them for that it's like yeah we put Kevlar on it yeah good that's awesome thank you for that and then finally wow those really do have some heft to them finally the earphones themselves when we pull off their hollow point silicone tip I love that branding we find the 9 millimeter rare earth neodymium magnet drivers it's something to bear in mind about these headphones is even though they have that made for iPod branding they are fairly high impedance so these are 32 ohm impedance earphones which when you consider that something like a Sennheiser Momentum on the ears are running at 18 ohms of impedance you kind of go oh wow what's going on here so you may want to look into something like a portable headphone amplifier or you may find that they sound great to you out of the box one of the advantages of higher impedance headphones is that they can help with bass roll-off as well as roll-off on the higher end giving you a flatter more well a more flat sounding sound for lack of a better way of putting that so without further ado we're gonna have to listen to these and let you guys know what we think so now that Brandon and I have had a chance to spend some time really playing around with these I have a few things to point out so number one is I was terrified when I looked at the back of the package and I was like oh no they deliver unmatched sound purity okay that sounds okay so far tight thundering distortion free bass okay when the first thing they talk about is the bass that's that scary because a lot of the time that means yeah we couldn't figure out how to optimize the drivers and how to optimize the output so we're just gonna be like yeah it's got lots of bass and it's loud and put big drivers on it that that is not that is not a good audio experience but then they kind of go crystal clear mids soothing smooth highs accurate and enveloping sound that is uniquely munitio and they're actually right so the first thing I noticed about them is that even though they look like fashion earphones and even though they are branded like fashion earphones they're like bullets and stuff the second I plugged them into my HTC one so I'm using Apollo now which dramatically improves the sound output compared to even power ramp which has a great reputation Apollo is much better anyway I'm using Apollo now and I was like oh well they have a very flat sounding that signal sound signature they don't have like this pumped up bass that you get so often with headphones and earphones these days so I kind of went oh well I wonder if they're even capable of really pumping out the base so then I fired up power ramp which I'm really not that big of a fan of anymore but it does have a built-in EQ and lo and behold really punchy tight bass I'm impressed I'm really impressed if I had one complaint about them it will okay if I have like I'll list all my complaints about them because I do have a few complaints number one is that these ear clips are not really very useful for me they don't even sit on my ear once you put the once you put the earphone into it and they're made out of a hard plastic so I really just didn't find them that useful but the good news is in spite of their weight I really didn't have trouble keeping them in with the smallest tips and they come with three different sizes of tips my next complaint is that there is a little bit of sibilis that is at the very high end when high frequency sounds can be a little bit harsh sounding to your ears the way that you can compensate for that though if you do have a software EQ in your media player is that you can take the very very high frequency and turn it down a little bit with that said pretty much anything under several hundreds of dollars you're going to experience a noticeable amount of that so it's just a matter of your tolerance level and it was really only detectable for me at very high volume levels speaking of volume levels I was able to drive these up to higher than comfortable I didn't actually make it to the maximum volume on my HTC one so I wouldn't worry too much about the 32 ohm impedance unless you have extremely weak output on your phone or mp3 player or otherwise and then the last thing that I wanted to talk about is the noise isolation they don't have the best noise isolation ever but it's weird because you end up in sort of the situation where I can put these in and if I'm not listening to anything I can I can hear myself quite clearly I can hear my surroundings very clearly Brandon was able to hear the embarrassing music I was listening to very clearly but when I'm listening to them they have a more closed sound to them I don't know if it's the metal construction or if it's something else about the engineering of these earphones but the sound signature sounds more closed but they are actually not very noise isolating compared to the ones that I use more regularly which are the SteelSeries flux in your pros where I'm using comply tips so maybe it's not really an apples to apples comparison and Brandon's frame of reference is what are those again monster turbine pro so we're talking earbuds that retail for like $400 as opposed to these ones with $170 price point so I think at the end of it all the conclusion that we were both able to agree on is for $170 if you want something that sounds good and it doesn't look like garbage you know what not a bad bet so color me surprised and impressed the munitiono nines are not just fashion earphones good job guys guys don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment if you're as surprised as me that earbuds shaped like bullets aren't total garbage and as always check out the Linus Tech Tips forum for a great discussion about technology and all that cool stuff