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Hed Kandi Discothéque On-Ear Headphones

Been seeing a lot of branded headphones coming into the Philippines lately (and we’ve been testing a bunch of them in the past months) and one of the newer and more recognizable brand is Hed Kandi.

Originally started out as a record label, I guess it made sense for Hed Kandi to venture into the headphone market.

We picked this Hed Kandi Discothéque from the local distributor to test out.

The Discothéque is a simple on-ear headphones with a stainless-steel frame for a head-band coupled with soft leather-like pads (on-ear headphones are categorized as supra-aural headphones).

Another twister strip of stainless-steel protrudes from the side, holding the ear cups and allowing the bands to be extended according to the size of your head. The accordion-type cord (more commonly referred to as curly cables) provides good cable-management yet offers the extra cable length when needed (the Discothéque maxes out at 1.5).

The ear-pads are soft and comfortable although I fear that thin piece of polymer film that covers the pads might easily get torn off by accident.

The head-band is strangely very tight, not just because I have a fairly-sized head, but because the steel frame is not very tractable so the pressure of the pads against the ears becomes significant over time. I just think the head-bands can be very tiring to use over prolonged periods of time.

Sound quality is impressive — clear and crisp in the low and mids, not tinny on the high end and has really solid bass. For the most part, I think it’ the bass that gave this headphone really good marks.

The ear pad does a fairly good job at isolating ambient noise but not by much (and because it’s a supra-aural headphones, it really depends on the size and shape of your ear lobes).

Hed Kandi Discothéque technical specifications:
Driver diameter: 40mm
Frequency response: 20Hz – 20kHz
Impedence: 32 Ohms
Sensitivity: 108dB
Max input power: 100mW

The Discothéque retails for about Php1,190 in local stores (like Astrovision, Mobile 1, Digital Hub, Digital Walker, PowerMac and iStudio among others), a very decent price-point if I may say so.

They come in a variety of funky colors as well and it’s pretty obvious that this model is targeted towards the more trendy or fashion-conscious crowd. I just feel you’d end up putting it around your neck than around head because of that somewhat uncomfortable head band. Too bad because we really liked the sound quality of this unit.

In any case, we’d love to give this Hed Kandi Discothéque to one of our readers. Here’s what you need to do to score this unit.

In 160 characters or less, complete this line:

“I’d love to have that Hed Kandi Discothéque! I’d give up … “. Include this link at the end — http://www.yugatech.com/143hedkandi.

Post it on your Twitter, Plurk, Google+, FB or Tumbler and leave a comment here with the link to you entry. We’ll pick the random winner on Monday.

Disclosure: Digits Trading, the official distributor of Hed Kandi in the Philippines, supplied us with this unit for review and allowed us to keep it or give it away to readers. They’re also an advertiser on this blog for the next 12 months so you should see their banner ads by end of the month.

Abe Olandres
Abe Olandres
Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.
  1. PETER JAMES ESCOBAR says:

    I’d love to have that Hed Kandi Discothéque! I’d give up ALICE IN WONDERLAND PLAYING CARDS — http://yugatech.ph/143hedkandi.

  2. Peter James F Escoba says:

    I’d love to have that Hed Kandi Discothéque! I’d give up my school report card — http://yugatech.ph/143hedkandi.

  3. Royce says:

    “I’d love to have that Hed Kandi Discothéque! I’d give up my w700i Walkman Phone :) “.

  4. Reisa Maas says:

    Reisa Maas-http://www.facebook.com/reisamaas

    “I’d love to have that Hed Kandi Discothéque! I’d give up our home theatre for it because it’s still like having a home theatre and being able to bring it everywhere!“ — http://yugatech.ph/143hedkandi

  5. Jomar Sadie says:

    I’d love to have that Hed Kandi Discothéque! I’d give up my apple headphones!

  6. suzette says:

    “I’d love to have that Hed Kandi Discothéque! I’d give up MY LIFE TO HAVE THAT“. —http://yugatech.ph/143hedkandi.

    http://twitter.com/#!/setmartizano

  7. Lhon says:

    Sa akin na yang headphone na yan!! (crossfingers!)

  8. vince says:

    after the horror I felt when I saw the price of some of the headphones you reviewed, this one is much more affordable

  9. Rolly Go says:

    I’d love to have that Hed Kandi Discothéque! I’d give up my fuzzy P150 headphone

  10. late technology says:

    may kirf? oem or class a? which sounds better? which is more expensive? which is closer to original in terms of sound quality?

  11. jonaflormicfren says:

    The appearance and style is convincing.

  12. nixmanabat says:

    if i will be blessed with this,,it will be my first over ear headphones! please see my entry @

    http://www.facebook.com/stig04

    unfortunately cant post on google+ right now,,service unavailable :( goodluck to all of us guys!:)

  13. Bon says:

    Hi. I left a comment on your article on Google+. Keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks! :)

  14. drew says:

    sh*****t… i like to have this one..

  15. tipler says:

    good job catching the grammar mistake early on

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