The headphone industry is in top form. According to the American consultancy Grand View Research, this market had a global turnover of 34.8 billion dollars in 2020, but its forecasts predict that in 2027 this figure will increase to close to the 127,000 million dollars. Many other industries would like for themselves to grow at an annual rate of more than 20%.
There’s no doubt that the rise of smartphones has strengthened the headset industry, but in all probability video games have too. According to Statista, in 2020 the global revenue of the PC games industry was close to 37,000 million dollars, while the companies that develop mobile video games that year billed no less than 77,000 million dollars.
The good health of these markets has meant that players currently have a wide range of headphones at our disposal. In fact, it is so vast that it is often difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff and come up with the option that better meet our needs. Curiously, there are some in-ear headphones that are making a lot of noise on the internet for a reason: they are making shooter enthusiasts fall in love.
What’s so special about the 7Hz Salnotes Zero from the Chinese company Linsoul Audio
Very good quality sound equipment is being manufactured in China. This country has had a hard time breaking into this market because it has been forced to combat the perception that hi-fi components designed and manufactured within its borders are of low quality. And the perception of quality is a very important factor in this industry because, precisely, what it offers to enthusiasts is nothing more than reproducing our audio with the highest possible quality and expressive capacity.
The 7Hz Salnotes Zero headphones are garnering very positive reviews for their high quality
The Linsoul Audio brand has a gigantic headphone portfolio, but there is one model in particular, the 7Hz Salnotes Zero, which is garnering very positive reviews for its high quality. We haven’t had the chance to test it (yet), but we couldn’t resist telling you about it due to the noise these headphones are making and the almost total unanimity there is about its features. In the images that illustrate this article you can see that they are in-ear headphones, but they have a peculiarity that we should not overlook: apparently they perform surprisingly well with shooters.
The analyst who defends with some vehemence how well the Salnotes Zero defend themselves with shooting games is Dariusz Müller, a German journalist specializing in sound. According to him, these headphones manage to reproduce the sound scene very accurately and do not overemphasize the low end (something that many headphones that have a markedly gimmicky character unfortunately do), which allows the player to clearly identify the position of their opponents thanks to the noise emitted by their footsteps. In shooters these qualities can make a difference.
According to Müller, the design of the Zero Salnotes has involved Crinacle, a very active sound expert on social networks who publish headphone review very well on point In any case, the characteristics of these earphones reflect that they should perform well with music too, and not only with shooting games. On the Linsoul Audio product page we can see that they seem to be well finished (its enclosure is metallic), and its electrodynamic transducer incorporates a 10 mm diameter composite metal diaphragm.
The characteristics of these earphones reflect that they should perform well with music
Another attractive detail that is worth not overlooking is that its cable is removable, and, to top it off, according to Linsoul its frequency response is unusually flat. They look so good that we are looking forward to trying them. We can get them directly from the manufacturer’s website, but in Europe they are also available from Amazon’s German subsidiary at a price of 28.99 euros. If they really are as good as Müller assures, it will be worth it for players and music lovers to take them into account.
More information: Linsoul Audio
