Acoustibud adaptors to improve iPod earbuds?

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techitesm

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#27984 13-Nov-2008 12:50

Has anyone tried these adaptors from Burton technologies? Are they recommendable or am I better off replacing my earbuds? Any recommendation?

http://technology.tipsminisites.com/news/acoustibud-adaptors-to-improve-ipod-earbuds.html

Thanks

n00dy

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#177806 13-Nov-2008 15:33

I think the earphones that come with ipods are not up to it for serious music listeners, I dumped my ipod one for Sony Noise cancelling earbuds but then got my hand on Shure SE530, wow, what a difference, I thought the sonys were good. What I am getting at is that the end product must be of good quality to get good sounds, you cant improve the sound quality just by channelling the sound a different way. I would use the money spent on upgrading the earbud to buy a set of good quality buds. ps the difference between the std ipod - sony - shure was, ipod volume slider (itouch) at 50% same volume and quality on sony volume slide set at 30% on the Shure volume slide is at the 10-15% mark, cant have it half way as they are too loud.

blakamin

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#177867 13-Nov-2008 20:54

techitesm:
Has anyone tried these adaptors from Burton technologies? Are they recommendable or am I better off replacing my earbuds? Any recommendation?

http://technology.tipsminisites.com/news/acoustibud-adaptors-to-improve-ipod-earbuds.html

Thanks

The trick is to get some good in-ear "monitors" (as the expensive ones are known).

I work outside alot of the time in a rough, dusty enviroment and have found the $39 panasonic RP-HJE240 to be excellent sounding, comfortable, resillient and cheap!
And besides all that, no bits have fallen off yet! (3 months on, touch wood).
They sound a billion times better than the stock ipod things and are good value for money if you ever think they might be damaged.
I originally bought skull candy smokin buds for outside work because of the lifetime warranty, and while the nz importers were great, skull candy changed the warranty and they had a mega-buttload of faults... from being too bassy to crapping out in one channel all the time due to a cheap plug setup... I had 2 sets replaced and the importers even sent me a spare set of silicon bits as you cant buy the sets in NZ like you can in the US.

I bought some expensive IEMs and the silicone bits fell off in my t-shirt inside of a day and these weren't evn used at work. They sounded brilliant, but not really worth the hassle/money for any "rough" stuff.

If you have the money, buy sennheiser or shure or even spend more, but if you want great sound at a great price with great ability to take the knocks, get the panasonic...