I've never known this brand Jays before, but apparently it's a Swedish earphone brand, and the earphones came with rather fancy (and unnecessarily heavy) packaging. They also have a fancy website showcasing all their pretty looking earphones. It is quite clear that they are a design-driven and well-branded company, but somehow I never came across them in any outlets before. Maybe they sell solely on the web? I don't really know. In any case, they make lovely sets of earphones and I'm rather happy with what I got.
The ones I got sound alright, nothing too superb as they are £25 earphones after all, but they're much better looking than the ones in the same price range.
I love their matt texture and the thick cables are meant to be tangle free. To be honest they do tangle a bit, but the untangling them is nothing compared to the pain I went through with my previous earphones; I'm definitely satisfied about that.
As a consequence, the cables are rather thick and they do stand out more than normal earphones around. Not that this matters much.
They are good for people like me, who are not too fussed about the sound of earphones, but would like to have decent ones within a cheap price range. Their great design is definitely a big bonus and make them attractive choice over all other competitors.
Also, they are for people who buy all their gadgets black, and cannot stand white earphones that Apple is sticking to. I like how Jays only make black products, as I pretty much only buy black anything.
I'm really good at breaking or losing earphones and I decided I won't invest too much money in them. I liked Nixon's earphones, but I broke them so quickly (not their fault but mine, just be fair), I never actually went back to them. As far as my limited knowledge of cheap and decent earphones go, I'm quite satisfied with Jays, Nixon and Sony. Nixon has the best looks, Jays is the most practical, and Sony the best price-for-quality (even super cheap ones sound decent and endurable).
とうとう新しいイヤフォンを、Mobile Funより手に入れました。日本への発送もしています。
a-Jays Oneというイヤフォンで、スウェーデンのJaysというブランドのもの。このブランドのこと聞いたことすらなかったのだけれど、主張しすぎず、デザインがしっかりしている印象。友人は「きしめん」と名付けていましたが、確かにきしめんなイヤフォンです。絡まりにくいのがいい感じ。マットな質感もグッド◎
値段の割には、お洒落です。今まで「お洒落かつ安い」イヤフォンはNixonの安いラインが好きだったのだけれど、Jaysも良い感じ。基本的になんでも黒しか買わないので、このブランドは黒しか売ってないというところも、勝手に共感が持てます。
So, what I have been listening with these new earphones?
Some super sexy songs.
For instance, I've been addicted to Sade's Smooth Operator. So seductive:
Sade、いいですね。この曲にすごくハマってます。セクシー。
This is my number one favorite song by Michael Jackson: Dirty Diana. The sexiest song by Jackson by far.
マイケル・ジャクソンの曲のなかでは“Dirty Diana”が一番好きです。そうです、わたしはセクシーな音楽が好きなんです。マイケルのなかで最もセクシーな曲ですよね、これ。
And a mixture of dance classics from early 00s. I wasn't so into house music back then, but they sound so nice to go back to now.
Take Dirty Vegas. I only started listening to them about a month ago, I don't think I even knew them (this reveals how little I know about music in general). But boy, their self-titled album Dirty Vegas from 2002 sounds still fresh to listen to in 2013. It's one of those albums that I love listening to as a whole and don't care too much about the details of individual tracks.
2000年代初頭のダンスミュージック、特にハウスを最近聴き始めていて、Dirty Vegasっていいなと思いました。
Dirty Vegas、Dirty Projectors、Dirty Southと、わたしの好きなミュージシャンはDirtyが多いな（しかもみんな別にdirtyじゃない）。
And the classic. Tiesto's Lethal Industry has been in my Spotify playlist for a while.
1999年リリース。確かにその時代の音なのだけれど、今聴いても新しい。飽きそうなのに、何度聴いても、本当に飽きないです。Tiestoマジック。
And finally some Adele. Her cover of Lovesong by the Cure.
It sounds so much like her other songs, it's hard to believe she didn't write this. This song then to Someone Like You is such an emotional part of her stunning album 21.
恋愛している人に染みるAdele。アルバムにも入っているカバー曲。最初、カバーだとはまったく気付かなかった。違和感なく、彼女の曲に聴こえます。歌詞がすごい。