GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Are you keeping your loved one up at night? Needing a way to hear things but not get noticed?
The Magic Ear promises to enhance sounds in a compact discrete way. But does it?
Let’s try it.
The Magic Ear comes in an easy-to-open package and feels cheap when it’s in your hands. Even the included earbuds feel cheap. We decided to put some batteries on and start testing it out. The magic of the Magic Ear is this little microphone at the top of the device.
The first test was to see how it would work with amplifying the volume of a television. We set the volume of the TV down to a whisper and then amplified the sound using the Magic Ear. We slowly increased the volume until we reached its peak. There was no real difference between the Magic Ear and our ear. The magic ear made things sound a bit worse because it sounded muffled.
We even tried using a pair of beat headphones with the device, and even with these fancy headphones, the sound was still not great.
Our last test was to see if it worked better with a voice across the room, and just like the tv, our ears worked better.
The Magic ear does look like a little pocket radio, but that’s all it was good at.
So the results.
The positives
- It looked like a pocket radio
And the negatives
- It felt cheap
- Did not amplify sound better than our ears
- Poor audio quality
The magic ear was not magic for us. It was cheaply made and failed to make any difference in amplifying sound. For this, we rate this as an avoid it.
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