India, May 9 -- Conventional wisdom has mostly dictated that if you are to tune an audio system (earphones are no outliers) leaning towards bass, or the lower frequencies, it'll immediately be ineligible for anything that would classify as high-quality or premium. Basically, the sort of proposition aficionados would rather prefer. We may be seeing a sort of rebalancing of that wisdom, at least to an extent, with the collaboration that sees Indian company Headphone Zone and Chinese audio makers Oriveti, together tune what can be classified as early buy (key here being the price) in-ear monitors. Results are impressive, with some key takeaways pointing to quality over everything else.

The Headphone Zone x Oriveti Blackbird holds a Rs.4,999...