earphones? up to £150.

aardvark · 3 Jan 2013 at 12:28

thinking about upgrading my earphones since i listen so much to music. got some sony MDR-EX90LP and while they are good they don't isolate sound very well.

any good recommendations??
just a couple of things:
i don't want any volume control or any of that rubbish - straight wires to the plug.
And, is there anywhere i can actually listen to them before i buy since it is a lot of money??

aardvark · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:07

no ideas then?

let me ask another question - are there high street stores that sell earphones in that range? or is it really only internet based?

i had a look in hmv at the weekend and while they had some good headphones, their selection of earphones was very poor.

MartynB85 · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:20

So you are looking for some IEM's rather than proper over your head headphones?

aardvark · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:24

Amraam · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:41

The Klipsch X10s are good. They are usually about £180 but a rainforest site has them at £99 atm.

bemaniac · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:58

Amraam said:
The Klipsch X10s are good. They are usually about £180 but a rainforest site has them at £99 atm.

oooooooh

aardvark · 4 Jan 2013 at 11:08

Amraam said:
The Klipsch X10s are good. They are usually about £180 but a rainforest site has them at £99 atm.

they look like a good deal - lots of reviewers are saying the build quality is not great though

j0sh · 4 Jan 2013 at 14:11

I'd highly reccomend AKG a550's
extremely comfortable (at least for me) and they can be found for just under your budget with a quick google

MartynB85 · 4 Jan 2013 at 14:19

j0sh said:
I'd highly reccomend AKG a550's
extremely comfortable (at least for me) and they can be found for just under your budget with a quick google

I had a pair of those for xmas :cool:

They are great, but OP didn't want full size headphones.

aardvark · 4 Jan 2013 at 14:39

yeah - these are for my mp3 player as i'm walking everywhere.
Already have some hd600's at home but obviously these are not designed to be used whilst out and about.

i might have a wander around leeds at the weekend and see what people have - richer sounds, superfi, pc world even!

aardvark · 5 Jan 2013 at 16:16

well, got some musical fidelity eb-50's for £135

trying them out now - certainly different to my ols sonys - less bass but not as boomy. more detail definitely.
come with 11 set of buds and only one actually fits my ear properly lol!

sometimes a bit harsh - going to need burning in for a while i think.

aardvark · 5 Jan 2013 at 21:14

going to take them back to the sop tomorrow but i don't know whats going to happen as they have a non returnpolicy for earphones.

after listening for a while and comparing to my old phones and to my other hd600's these eb-50s are really not very good.
no bass, sound very closed and tinny - i can only assume they are faulty - i can't believe a pair of £150 earphones sound this poor.

but its weird - i've switching between phones for the last few hours and sometimes they sound ok, other times they sound awful.

aardvark · 5 Jan 2013 at 21:38

think i've figured it out - i'm finding it difficult to get a decent seal in my ears hence it sounding different - going to have to experiment!

aardvark · 7 Jan 2013 at 09:09

listened to them for the hour and a half journey this morning - nope, don't like them, too light weight, no impact in the bass at all and this is with a good seal in the ears.

rang up the shop and they are going to speak to musical fidelity and see what they say, but it looks like i just wasted £135.

aardvark · 14 Jan 2013 at 12:28

managed to get store credit for them - good enough.

in summary - the eb-50's are crap.

aardvark · 15 Jan 2013 at 09:14

probably going to have to go for some full size headphones and be one of those people - can't really justify taking the risk of buying something i can't listen to again.

the sennheiser momentum are looking like a possibility.