Apple Earbuds with Hands Cupped Over Ears Sound Amazing

Oh no. noooo!

I bought an ipod touch a few weeks back and today I did a test with my sennheiser MX760 and apple stock buds. 

I had trouble with which sounded better myself, I thought of making a thread but didnt want to get roasted alive by other hifiers.

After a while the deep subtleties of the sennheisers were revealed though. But maybe my ears suck 

The Apple buds sound much better if you just put a foam earpad on them to make them fit a little better.

This is how dynamics work, dude.

Please contribute to this thread to break the snobbery against ibuds. :)

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/newestpost/536974

If you have to push the buds into your ears or form a resonant cavity with your hands in order to get good audio -- which is the case with stock Apple buds -- it is a fundamentally weak design.

I would also point out that Apple no longer even supplies foam earpads with their buds.

The way I see it, if you have to hold your hands over them to get them to sound good, they're not worth the time or effort.

Hear ya go... 10 Bucks

Ha! I thought the same thing for a while! I was comparing them with a pair of Hifiman RE262, with amp and without amp. I was pretty sad when I couldn't honestly and definitively say that the RE262 was a significant upgrade. Turns out the RE262 just wasn't my cup of tea. I got rid of 'em and kept searching. I've since fallen in love with the Earsonics SM3 and the Westone UM3X

I won't say that the stock apple buds are horrible, but they can't touch a serious IEM