Three-driver speakers for excellent sound, effective sound isolation...Expensive, Push-To-Hear VoicePort is less useful than it sounds...While most headphones use a single speaker driver for each ear, the E500PTH headphones use three drivers one each side--one tweeter and two woofers...The E500PTH headphones are quite impressive, and the three-driver design and Push-To-Hear technology...
Editor Rating 4.0/5 Published on September 29, 2006
Truly wonderful sound; sound-isolation; Push-To-Hear
technology...Not comfortable for everyone; sound-isolation has
drawbacks...So effective are the E500s at blocking out the outside world that attempting to hold a conversation, even with the sound turned down low, can be very difficult...They’re not just good for earphones, they’re also good compared to large high-quality headphones and even decent...
Editor Rating 8.0/10 Published on September 4, 2006
I seem to be spending a lot of my time evaluating high end in-ear headphones these days...The sound quality produced by the E500PTH headphones is, quite simply staggering and I defy even the most casual of listener not to be impressed...Having listened to everything from MP3 to AAC to ATRAC, I can honestly say that these headphones really shine when you throw files encoded in formats like Apple...
Its too bad they did not work on getting some better iPod compatibility, as that is where most people will want to use them, not hooked up to some big headphone amp...Although quite good, I never felt I was doing justice to a new recording when listening through the E4c's...My conclusion is that if you do a lot of stationary audiophile listening using earphones in relatively quiet environments, you...
These will help keep you relaxed/asleep since you can isolate yourself from annoying/stressful noises! Make sure you match these with a good-quality audio source...If you want to use these on a laptop, I recommend getting a USB audio adapter...You will hear the interference noise with these as they are that good! Ordered on Thu - Shipped Fri - Arrived Mon(but i missed the mailman, picked it up on Tue)...
Summary from 31 user reviews Average Rating 9.4/10
I feel I am able to discriminate between what is good and what is crap...I was going to go all out and get the UE10s, but saw these bad boys on ebay for sub 300...The E500 cable is durable and easier to untangle than the Super fi Pros' superthin cable...
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