Shure - Best Earphone Company Ever?

[Waveguy]

Originally Posted by Beau

RE: the $1500 Stax setup... I had about $5k sunk into this hobby as of last year, sold off much of my setup to buy a motorcycle. There are guys on head-fi that have several $10k into it - drink the kool-aid, I know you all want to.

Once again.

www.head-fi.org

Oh yeah, and don't mention any love for Bose on that site, you will get ripped a new one.

I just took a look at the site and I see what you mean! It does bring back memories of discussions about the benefits of direct drive vs. belt drive turntables, tube amps vs solid-state amps, and so on, though.

[col3man]

I'm an audio freak as well, I write music and kinda live it.. ( I have some SHURE mic's and I'm happy with them) I bought a set of E3c Sound Isolating Earphones and.. well, not too impressed.. I returned them after a few days.. the sound was great, no doubt.. the space and staging of the drivers was good, the bass was there; acoustically, I had no issues.. here is what I had problems with.. First, the cable to the drivers was so thick and industrial, every time it moved, while walking or moving, it transferred the sound to the ears, it was like a giant stethoscope! It absolutely sucked. Then the fact that it was like 5 feet long.. thanks for the thought, but I dont need my iPod across the room.. So i had to kinda wrap it around my iPod or something.. The second issue was the quality of the headphone, it was really, really bad.. it looked like a model carved out of a chunk of plastic by a 5th grader.. It was like low-density PE, or a low pressure mold, there was flash all over the place and the parts barely fit together.. (maybe we're spoiled by nice Sony molding or apple fit and finish, but this would not have passed for a rough prototype.. (yeah, I'm an Industrial Designer who works with plastic, but anybody could see this.) I returned them and just use Sony MDR-EX85's the sound is just about the same.. good bass, decent sound space, etc..

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