Oh and +1 to BOSE® is SHIT®.

If your used to using a Lanyard with your phone, here's a simple and effective way to tidy up that extra cable length.

All you need is a 1 inch peice of telephone handset cord, white would be best if you can get it.


coil the extra cable around two fingers, hold it neatly against the bottom of the lanyard, and coilthe peice of phone cord around both. Tidies things up nicely, and you can remove the earphones from the lanyard with a simple firm tug






A smaller piece can also be used to shorten the cable so you can slip the iPhone into your top shirt/coat pocket.

Anyone have an Apple Bluetooth earpiece?

I would be interested in hearing a user "review" of the product.

is the last part of everyone elses earphone jack really hard to get in. I can't seem to push the final stage of my earphones in. Is it meant to be so stiff?

I think that is designed that way, a little bit of security if you drop it. I prefer it that way.

it's ok now I got it.

I wouldn't exactly call them shit. They are pretty good in my book. I've got the QC3s.

Personal opinion only but here are my reasons:

• Don't want overly large headhones
• Can't stand in-ear designs
• Light-weight
• Decent build quality

Haven't tried the Bose in-ear ones (see point 2). I also have a pair of Sennheiser sports headphones. For $80; these aren't bad and probably as close to in-ear that I'll use.

After my Earbuds broke (seemingly they're made out of cheese) I replaced them with Sennheiser CX300 Canalphones and never looked back.
I do miss the answer button + mic but I heard Sennheiser released an iPhone version with the mic. which is a good thing because my cat decided he'd chew my current ones :/

thats correct i just ordered them. There were so many other canalphones i wanted to buy, but none had the call button/mic so sennheiser won.


Sennheiser MM 50 iP Earphones for iPhone

What a bad kitty! Yeah, there's new sennheisers - model mm 50 ip. They're selling em up here for about 60 quid which is an absolute rip off since i use to by the cx300s for about 65 bucks at jb hifi

Edit:

I just bought the creative ep-630 headphones. i think someone here bought a pair and was able to rollback the rubber shielding so it could fit in the 1st gen iphone.

A few days into life with my Shure SE210s and music phone adapter, I'm a happy camper. Sound quality is good, the adapter button works well and the fit is a heck of a lot more comfortable than the old Shures I was using (and the pack-in buds for that matter).

Correction... 3 options... Etymotic make a headset called the hf2. Based on the ER-4 IEMs.

Etymotic Research, Inc. - hf2â„¢ Earphones

My choice..

Just to stand out from the crowd and to prove what a tight arse I am, I reckon the standard headphones are pretty bloody good!

Good enough for my ears anyway.

If they're the ones I'm thinking of, they're identical to the CX300's and come from the same factory anyway

Problem with Bose is that they use really shitty drivers in both speakers and headphones. The reason they've gotten away with it for so many years is because most of their speakers are active, as opposed to passive. You can make any active speaker sound alright, even if you have terrible quality drivers.

Bose sound alright if you don't compare them to anything else. I have a pair of c. 1985 Bang & Olufsen Beovox MC120.2 speakers with a decent Sony amp, and there is no comparison. Pretty much any vintage three-way passive speaker will beat Bose, and most modern systems. Bose stuff sounds pretty harsh in the higher frequencies, and quite unnaturally bassy in the lower frequencies.

I don't mean to bag anyone for their opinions, every person likes a different type of sound. Bose have some pretty nice looking gear. I recently won a Bose SoundDock Portable, and I use it when I go on holidays because it has a sweet battery life when not plugged into mains, and it's really portable.

Anyway, I seem to have strayed from the topic. The moral of the story is this: they don't make 'em like they used to.