Unfortunately, Remix Remote has relocated the microphone to the Y-joint remote compartment, and though we were initially impressed by its intelligible, clear sound-only a hint too high in treble-we quickly noticed that the mic was picking up all the friction of the remote housing against our clothing, creating noisy audio that callers didn’t like one bit. V-Moda’s original Vibe Duo design placed the microphone in the same compartment as its remote control, and Vibe II decoupled the components, letting the microphone hang next to your mouth and the remote sit lower at the Y-joint-an improvement. On the other hand, Remix Remote has some problems in the microphone department.
At the same time, Remix offers better treble definition and more dynamic overall sound than the Klipsch S4, which we found to be overly flat and a little bloated on the low end. Like Vibe II, Remix steps back a little from the old overwhelming, ear-flooding bass levels, but it preserves enough of the really low notes that you still feel like you’re hearing your music with greater warmth than, say, Apple’s In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic. Sonically, Remix Remote is closer to our ideal sound signature than the original Vibes and Vibe Duos, which V-Moda continued to produce for years with Darth Vader-like bass levels in an effort to create a “clubby,” DJ-like sound. They’re similar to Klipsch’s Image S4, but feel and look nicer. They’re less jewelry-like than their predecessors, but still have all of the solid metal feel, with distinctive turret-like machining and a little X-shaped etching on their outward-facing edges. Remix’s casings are now almost entirely smooth metal, alternating between silver and black in the standard Nero model, and black and grey in a second version that our remote-less preliminary Remix sample arrived in. Vibe II went upscale, evolving Terminator-like enclosures with faux jewels inside, and Remix goes downscale, losing the diamond-cut color accents found on all of the Vibe and Vibe Duo housings. Like Vibe II, the Remix earphones represent a big change visually from the original Vibes, which continued to appear in a wide variety of impressive colors and cable permutations over their two-year evolution.
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