Out of desperation, after I lost hope that I would ever find my V-moda vide duo (beware this website plays music) headphones, I went to the apple store in soho to purchase any iPhone headphones that had a mic, the only ones that were less than $200 were the the Klipsch s4i image headphones with mic and 3 button remote. So i bought them hoping that they would sound great out of the box…
Boy, was I surprised as soon as I got them on and started playing some high bit rate music and the s4i’s made my music seem angry at me. Granted I was listing to some KMFDM, but the sound level was just too unbalanced. The treble seemed like it was on overload, and to get any bass response I had to put the headphones on 8, and grind my teeth. However, on the plus side with the correct earpads the s4i’s fit great and blocked out a good part of the ambient noise.
The other thing that bothered me about the s4i’s was the response from the 3-button control. It responded as if it was processing the signal instead of passing it through. sometimes when I would pause a song, the song would stutter and then stop, and when I adjusted the volume my iPhone responded sluggishly.
Would I recommend that you buy these headphones? Absolutely not, at least until they get a firmware update. Single click, double click and sometimes even triple click worked and the volume buttons worked, and they are definitely louder than the headphones that Apple includes with the iPhone. Stick with the V-moda’s they are solid and proven and they have good customer service to boot…..