Ultimate boomer

Sony's take on how the young audience enjoys music is a bit delulu, but is this the solulu?

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I You have to plunge into the Ult Wear's warm and bass-heavy presentation to find Sony's intention with it and some tracks do sound much fuller and richer with the pulsating bottom end.

Eternal sounds fun. It never needed a bass boost but it does sound fuller and full-bodied with Chance the Rapper's vocals dictating the rhythm. The Sony Ult Wear doesn't inherently sound unpleasant for hip-hop tracks. Still, Kendrick Lamar wouldn't have expected you to appreciate Die Hard for its bass over his lyrical apologies.

I But the Ult Wear lacks definition and sonic presentation even in songs that might need an extra punch from the bottom end. It colours the subtleties in Bnxn's voice in Loose Emotions by brute forcing bass and bleeding the bottom end into the mids.

It has the texture but there's a lack of depth in the presentation. To put it simply, it sounds tedious and lacks dynamic range for non-bassy songs like Funny the Way It Is by Dave Matthews Band. If at all you find yourself pressing the dedicated ULT button on the left earcup, the song fills up with bloat and overbearing bass pressure. It doesn't give you anything to appreciate the Time Bomb song's soundstage.

Bass-ically bassy