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Shure SE530PTH Earphones

Michael Brown — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:02:51 -0500

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Shure SE530PTH Earphones

Michael Brown — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:10:48 -0500

For the price of one set of Shure’s SE530PTH earphones, you could buy two 30GB iPods, 17 sets of Apple earbuds, or 500 encrypted songs from iTunes. A worthy investment or Marie Antoinette–style consumption? With that question in mind, we couldn’t resist auditioning these pricey phones to the sound of Cake’s Fashion Nugget, ripped and FLAC-encoded, on Cowon’s D2 digital media player. We don’t know if Shure’s BOM (bill of materials) justifies a $500 price tag, but we did have awfully big smiles on our faces after using these earphones.

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M-Audio IE-20 XB Reference Earphones

Michael Brown — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:33:47 -0500

One of the most commonly voiced complaints about earbuds is that they don’t deliver enough bottom end; those tiny drivers just don’t have much material to work with when it comes to producing long waves. M-Audio’s IE-20 XBs are the exception to the rule. These earphones pump more bass than many full-size headphones.

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Etymotic Research ety8 Bluetooth Earbuds

Michael Brown — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:38:44 -0600

Thanks to Apple’s ubiquitous advertising, you can walk around town with wires hanging out of your ears without getting strange looks from passersby. Etymotic Research’s ety8 Bluetooth earphones shorten the wires, but these anything-but-discreet earbuds are guaranteed to draw a few sets of eyeballs your way.

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ExtremeMac FS1

Michael Brown — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:35:29 -0500

It’s been our experience that you get what you pay for, more often than not. The ExtremeMac FS1 earbuds, however, fall into the “not” territory. The $150 for-sale sign hanging on these little buggers easily qualifies them as the most expensive earphones of the group, but they certainly didn’t sound like it.

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Creative Zen Aurvana

Michael Brown — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:12:58 -0500

Creative has pulled together a very nice audio package here. The Aurvana’s are a terrific-sounding set of headphones that deliver crisp, well-defined audio across the sonic spectrum.

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Alienware Ozma 7 Headphones

Michael Brown — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:23:49 -0600

If you know your Wizard of Oz lore, you’ll recall that Ozma was the young princess and rightful heir to the throne of Oz. Exactly what this has to do with audio and aliens is anyone’s guess, but these headphones did take us over the rainbow.

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