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First Impressions of Apple In-Ear Headphones

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contractcooker said:
Not really. I too strive for 100% lossless... although I do have a few high bitrate mp3 albums. Lossless takes about 300-400MB per CD. It's a lot of space but hard drive prices are so incredibly cheap pretty soon there won't be any reason NOT to rip in lossless.
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Was using lossless but then just went pure to AIFF. No reason not to with the cost of storage now.
 
Evangelion said:
Same or more functionality? Please give me a link to in-ear headphones with similar quality, similar price AND an iPod-remote. Waiting....

And BTW: Please multi-quote in the future, as opposed to posting dozen separate posts in a row. I know that I'm not the best multi-quoter in the world, but still....
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How about these... I'm sure you could find them cheaper other places online. This is just one example. I know there are several others.

http://store.shure.com/store/shure/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.107013700#t

I'll quote however I please thank you very much. I'm sorry you were put through the inconvenience of reading multiple posts...... on a forum.... ridiculous....

Romanesq said:
Was using lossless but then just went pure to AIFF. No reason not to with the cost of storage now.
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Why would you use aiff over lossless? I'm curious... they sound the same but lossless is considerably smaller.
 
yes technically the same....

contractcooker said:
How about these... I'm sure you could find them cheaper other places online. This is just one example. I know there are several others.

http://store.shure.com/store/shure/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.107013700#t

I'll quote however I please thank you very much. I'm sorry you were put through the inconvenience of reading multiple posts...... on a forum.... ridiculous....



Why would you use aiff over lossless? I'm curious... they sound the same but lossless is considerably smaller.
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But I decided that on any expansion of my library I wanted to keep an original unadultered file is all. I did not go back and redo those already in lossless.
 
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I just need something that allows me to hear a little more detail than these (sony MDR EX71), with cords that are not ONLY retarded lengths. From split to left ear is like 3 inches. From split to right ear is about 4 feet. Without the extension its too short to reach my pocket. With the extension its 3 feet too long for my pocket.

Whoever designed these should be tortured.
 
masse said:
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I just need something that allows me to hear a little more detail than these (sony MDR EX71), with cords that are not ONLY retarded lengths. From split to left ear is like 3 inches. From split to right ear is about 4 feet. Without the extension its too short to reach my pocket. With the extension its 3 feet too long for my pocket.

Whoever designed these should be tortured.
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Agreed. Completely retarded! I have those headphones, they are SO long, or.. SO short. I started wearing casual button up shirts cuz the short cable was perfect to hold the ipod in my breast pocket.

The shirts please the ladies at least... Little do they know is that i could care less about that.
 
Lol @ the in-ear headphones in the online Apple store. 2 - 3 weeks. 3 - 4 weeks for the regular earphones. Looks like we gotta wait 'til after Christmas. I smell another month of delays to the retail Apple stores... I have no interest in online orders since it's such a hassle to return them.
 
The other nice feature of the in ear style is that all that extra sound from the world gets reduced. Can't wait to try them.
 
I dont know if its me, but i've had this pretty often. Im plugged into iPhone, The Killers purring into my ears. Volume is approximately 60% of the little squares, and suddenly there is an incoming call and the dial tone literally bullhorns into my ear. Fumble Fumble to turn down the volume. If i accept the call there and then, hearing the person on the other line is quite akin to standing beside the horn on a boat when its gona sail. Sound check on itunes and iPhone both activated, hence I do not know why the incoming calls have such a drastically different "volume" level as opposed to whats being played on iPhone.

So. Volume control on 2.2.1 (cmon gota have it) will be really neat. But that aint gona stop me getting a pair tho. Dual drivers' done it for me.
 
masse said:
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I just need something that allows me to hear a little more detail than these (sony MDR EX71), with cords that are not ONLY retarded lengths. From split to left ear is like 3 inches. From split to right ear is about 4 feet. Without the extension its too short to reach my pocket. With the extension its 3 feet too long for my pocket.

Whoever designed these should be tortured.
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My thoughts exactly!! I bought the MDR EX71 buds 2 yrs ago and immediately thought "who the hell designed these?". I don't have any shirts with pockets so the short cord didn't work and the longer cord was waaaaaay too long, and the plug-in extension acts like a 5-pound paperweight constantly pulling the cord out of my ear, especially if simply nodding my head. And the worst part of the MDR EX71 is that it has the pathetic wrap-behind-the-neck cord which sticks to your neck causing the left bud to pull out. Most all Sony's have this crappy cord design. It's like, did the Sony designer actually wear these outside of their cubicle? However, the buds stay in the ear if you don't move and many of the Sony's have the best and most comfortable fit. But the disadvantages outweigh. I don't buy Sony's anymore because of the cord design.

I also bought the earlier enhanced Apple buds a year ago and quickly found that they had a major fitting problem if you were at all active. If you're sitting at your desk looking at a monitor all day without any head movement then the buds were fine, but if you are the slightest bit active or need to look at the clock then you're screwed as they immediately become misaligned. This is partially due to the cheezy chalky rubber that Apple used. Hopefully the new buds fix this problem.
 
mccoolio said:
My thoughts exactly!! I bought the MDR EX71 buds 2 yrs ago and immediately thought "who the hell designed these?". I don't have any shirts with pockets so the short cord didn't work and the longer cord was waaaaaay too long, and it incorporates what felt like a 5-pound volume control box so it always pulled the cord out of my ear if I just nodded my head. And the worst part of the MDR EX71 is that it has the pathetic wrap-behind-the-neck cord which sticks to your neck causing the left bud to pull out. Most all Sony's have this crappy cord design. It's like, did the Sony designer actually wear these outside of their cubicle? However, the buds stay in the ear if you don't move and many of the Sony's have the best and most comfortable fit. But the disadvantages outweigh. I don't buy Sony's anymore because of the cord design.

I also bought the earlier enhanced Apple buds a year ago and quickly found that they had a major fitting problem if you were at all active. If you're sitting at your desk looking at a monitor all day without any head movement then the buds were fine, but if you are the slightest bit active or need to look at the clock then you're screwed as they immediately become misaligned. This is partially due to the cheezy chalky rubber that Apple used. Hopefully the new buds fix this problem.
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I laughed while with joy while reading this, finding someone who feels my pain for these stupid headphones, and in ironic manner my left earbud fell out while i was laughing!

Hahaha.
 
Any chance that the volume control could work with an Iphone firmware update in the future? I only say this as the plug looks exactly the same as the normal headphones?
 
londondude said:
Any chance that the volume control could work with an Iphone firmware update in the future? I only say this as the plug looks exactly the same as the normal headphones?
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I think we can be assured that Apple is not a bunch of idiots. If there was a simple way, correct way, that would make sense? they would do it. Keep it mind; marketing, reliability, customer satisfaction, yadda yadda.

i would assume a firmware update is all that would be needed, but then again the iphone just might straight up use different hardware.
 
elmateo487 said:
I laughed while with joy while reading this, finding someone who feels my pain for these stupid headphones, and in ironic manner my left earbud fell out while i was laughing!

Hahaha.
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YES, haha the extension is about half a pound and always rips the left earbud out.

This is funny. I posted out of frustration that I did not think others felt. cheers.
 
Quillz said:
The iconic "mug-me-white."
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this whole theft cause of earbud color is ridiculous. i'd seriously doubt any thief seeing you walk around with black earphones is gonna think that you carrying around a 1986 sony walkman. ipods have 70% market share. that means any thief has got 7 in 10 shot getting an ipod no matter what color headphones you are wearing.

and i'm sure they not gonna say "it's a zune, so why bother?"

if i'm looking to mug somebody (which i'm not), i'm going to take whatever they have regardless whether it's a zune, an ipod, or an iriver clix.
 
slicecom said:
Yes, you can. But there are many other in ear headphones with arguably better quality sound and better prices that can do the same.
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Any suggestions which product that have a better quality sound and price? thanks....
 
Noticed a few of you are mentioning other in-ears like Sony EX's-so this my thoughts on these:
I a lways have liked the Sony MDR-EX series-my current pairs are the EX32LP,EX52SL and EX85-which at AUD$90 is very comfortable to wear, has 13.5mm drivers for nice SQand its tips are nice and soft.

Note that the EX85/90's feature a unusal angled earpiece which I quite a fan of.

Have got cheaper Sony earbuds with a neck-chain type cord and these often have their cord worn out quite quickly-but that hasn't happened to the EX pairs.

Then at $59 is the SHE9500 from Philips- is also likeable due to what i found to be excellent isolation due to a perfect in-ear seal.

Now Apple's got a in-ear headphone that here in Australia is priced at $110-compared to $140+ plus for Shure & UE seems to be a very good bargin.

Not to mention the advantage of a dual driver design (although Apple doesn't actually publish how many mm's the drivers are).

Although I've yet to see these at my local Next Byte store, I think these are are a better buy than Sennheiser CX300 and would suit those interested in a premium in-ear but don't want to pay lots for.

Might want to get the new Apple pair soon for myself.
 
I imagine if the ability to adjust sound volume on the iPhone was possible with a software update, Apple would have snuck that in with that last 2.2 update, because they knew these new headphones were going to be coming out soon afterwards.
 
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