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new earphones
24_bauer_24
02-08-2007
hi

in around december of last year i bought an iPod whilst in the US (they're cheaper there). Unfortunately the earphones supplied with it have stopped working, so i need to buy a new pair.

ive looked around and the cheapest i can find the official ones is £17, i know you can buy fakes on eBay for about £4, but surely they wont be very good?

im looking for a pair that will have as good sound quality as the official Apple ones which broke.
i dont know a lot about sound quality so any advice would be appriciated.
coolgirl
02-08-2007
you can't go wrong with a pair of sennheiser cx300s they are the best in the price bracket. Best price is around £15-£17 delivered from play.com/amazon (hmv sell them for £40 instores), also be wary of ebays fakes have terrible sound quality.
24_bauer_24
03-08-2007
these ones?
sancheeez
03-08-2007
Yup. Thats the ones.

You'll find they should have better sound quality than the ones that ship with the iPod. Standard iPod headphones are pretty mince. (as are most headphones that ship with MP3 players ...)
NINJAMARK
03-08-2007
Originally Posted by 24_bauer_24:
“hi

i dont know a lot about sound quality so any advice would be appriciated.”

If you don't know much about sound quality, will you really notice the difference anyway?
24_bauer_24
04-08-2007
Originally Posted by NINJAMARK:
“If you don't know much about sound quality, will you really notice the difference anyway?”

what i mean is i dont understand whats technically good (eg ipendence), i dont want to buy a mickey mouse pair that sound rubbish
Havelock Vetinari
04-08-2007
Sennehesier's are hardly Mickey Mouse. Apple headphones are Mickey Mouse trash. I got sennehesier's for my Zen and the quality is superb. Don't buy apple headphones, you're wasting your money.
Mr Giggles
04-08-2007
I've just ordered a pair of sennheiser cx300's, I normally use Sony but as many people rave about sennheiser cx300's I thought I would give them a try.

I normally use Sony MDR-EX71SLW which are fantastic but a few quid more than the CX300's hence why I'm taking the plunge.
gary the great
05-08-2007
whers the cheapest place to buy a legit pair of sennhiser cx300?

there seems to be fake everywhere, i want the real deal at the lowest price!
sancheeez
05-08-2007
Amazon. As per the link in post 3 above .....
gary the great
05-08-2007
What im saying is there is no way they could be real, the ones on amazon are £3.50 plus postage! They couldnt possibly be the real deal?
Havelock Vetinari
05-08-2007
Almost certainly not at £3.50. But the ones that are about £17 are the real deal. Come on use your noggin. No "brand" name decent headphone are going to be £3.50 are they?
gary the great
05-08-2007
Originally Posted by Havelock Vetinari:
“Almost certainly not at £3.50. But the ones that are about £17 are the real deal. Come on use your noggin. No "brand" name decent headphone are going to be £3.50 are they?”


No obviously not. Are the £17 the cheapest ones available that are real?
sancheeez
05-08-2007
The ones from Amazon themselves will be genuine.

Who knows with the marketplace ones. Pot luck .... be as well buying them from ebay ....
Mr Giggles
10-08-2007
Originally Posted by gary the great:
“whers the cheapest place to buy a legit pair of sennhiser cx300?

there seems to be fake everywhere, i want the real deal at the lowest price!”

www.7dayshop.com

Oh and I bought a pair of CX300's and they are crap.
b100
12-08-2007
the cx300's are fantastic for the price. try iheadphones.co.uk.
Havelock Vetinari
12-08-2007
Originally Posted by major-giggles:
“www.7dayshop.com

Oh and I bought a pair of CX300's and they are crap.”

Maybe you have faulty ears Most people agree they are some of the better ear-phones around.
Certainly far better than the shoddy ones you get with any MP3 player you can care to name.
mikey86uk
12-08-2007
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sennheiser-P...950668&sr=1-26
mysteronz
13-08-2007
Ive been looking to buy some noise cancelling headphones to replace my original ipod headphones and was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions. Will the new headphones make much of a difference in reducing the background engine noise of a bus?
beko1987
13-08-2007
When I first got my cx300's from Pissy World at £35, after reviews from here they were amazingly better than the apple ones that i had. Sadly though, after 5 months of daily use (whenever I walk I have the ipod on, they get thrown around the car etc) they look very grubby and the rubber cable protector on the buds is perishing at the bottom. Still sound great though!
Rugby Rose
13-08-2007
Originally Posted by mysteronz:
“Ive been looking to buy some noise cancelling headphones to replace my original ipod headphones and was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions. Will the new headphones make much of a difference in reducing the background engine noise of a bus?”

I've done vacuuming while wearing the Sennheiser CX300 and I couldn't hear the vacuum at all. Can't hear anyone talking to you, can't hear cars when you're out on the bike and you definitely can't hear the door ring nor the telephone. It's great because no-one else can hear your music so you won't be irritating the hell out of the other bus users.

It's a good seal on the Sennheisers and a great sound - they come with three different size buds so you can't go wrong really. I got them from Amazon at £17ish and they are the real deal. I love them. Just makes you realise how dire the Apple earphones are. Have a read of the reviews on Amazon anyway.

My Sennheisers have been put through all sorts of accidental abuse, to being trodden on, thrown across the room in the middle of the night with some duvet tossling and even dropped one earbud in my coffee and they are still working. Amazing.

I wouldn't recommend them for wearing while jogging or at the gym though. The wires catch easily.
Mark in Essex
13-08-2007
If you have a little more to spend I would recomend the Sure E2C's - I've had them for 2 years now and they are great headphoned and I was supprised at the sound quality compaired to other head phones.


Here at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shure-E2C-In...7006764&sr=8-2
aok
13-08-2007
I've just bought a pair of V-moda vibe earphones off Ebay, they cost me £37 which includes P&P. Absolutely fantastic, look great and sound even better, great bass.

Alan
Mr Giggles
13-08-2007
Sennheiser CX300 have crap sound quality, my sony MDR-EX71SLW which are the same price have better sound quality. I have a good mind to send my CX300's back.
Paul Evans
16-08-2007
Originally Posted by major-giggles:
“Sennheiser CX300 have crap sound quality”

I have to completely disagree with you there. I ordered a pair of CX300s from Amazon a couple of days ago after getting completely fed up with my earphones (also Sennheiser) falling out of my ears at the first opportunity, and they arrived this morning.

It took a couple of attempts to get them to fit into my ear (I've never used IEMs before, only regular earphones and headphones), but now getting them in isn't a problem at all. They have to form a complete seal inside the ear, otherwise they sound tinny.

I've tried them on both my MP3 player (a Creative Zen Micro) and my PC via a pair of expensive Creative speakers, and the audio quality blew me away on both counts, especially the bass reproduction.

On hip-hop and rap tracks, the bass was the most powerful I've heard on any earphones I've ever owned, and the low bass (<40Hz) that most earphones fail to reproduce to any great degree came out blasting into my eardrums - It was like hearing a whole new layer of sound I didn't even know existed. Even my 8" subwoofers on my stereo system seemed to be lacking it in comparison. In fact, on my Zen Micro, I actually had to turn the bass down a bit - something I've never had to do before. Something this small shouldn't be able to reproduce bass that powerful.

On mid to high frequencies, audio reproduction was pretty good as well, although I have to admit that some higher frequencies seemed a little quiet. However, there was a distinct lack of sibilance on the higher frequencies, which made the listening experience far more comfortable even with the volume turned up. My Sony Fontopia (which were always my choice of earphone) earphones used to suffer a lot from sibilance which sometimes made them uncomfortable to use and my previous Sennheiser earphones (bought a month ago when I needed to replace the Sonys) also suffered from it as well.

I've also tried them out with rock, indie and dance tracks. Putting aside the awful mastering of recent tunes (with the heavily clipped treble), the CX300s performed well, and once again, it was possible to pick out instruments that I didn't even know were there. A lot of this was probably down to the way the CX300s blocked out external ambient sounds.

I'm going to try them out later today with a couple of DVDs to see how they perform there, but overall for £18 they seem like excellent value for money - If you can get them to fit into your ears of course.
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