My advice is to have a listen to the SE535. It is a very well-regarded headphone, not just among head-fi people either but across the board with reviewers and users :)   As I've said before, without knocking the quality of the SE535 in any way, I just personally don't enjoy the sound signature...

I would fully agree with gotak that the QC20 sounds like a $100-150 headphone for audio quality. You are paying much more than 150 for the Bose name and their excellent active-noise cancelling tech. I have also had the pleasure of listening briefly to the Westone 4R and I thought they sounded...

I think if you want an all-around earphone that is comfortable and sounds alright, the QC20 is a good bet. You don't have to go eartip hunting and, minus recharging the battery, it's not much trouble. However it is a Bose product and IMO does not really produce great sound for the money – they...

Hello,   I really enjoy the IE80, which I've owned for about 2 years. Take what I say with a grain of salt because the IE80 is my main IEM, while I only heard the QC20 for about 20 minutes at an electronics store demo. I do own the QC15, but not the QC20.   Using your criteria:   Sound...

Hey, I'm an IE80 user (IE8 cables fit the IE80 fine), and my original IE80 cable recently broke. Fortunately Sennheiser's customer service was excellent and they mailed me a new cable. While I waited, I looked at Chinese eBay options such as the silver galaxy, night stalker and a few other...

I'm not from the US but I am willing to bet that Radioshack stocks the Beats line. If you have a gift card and a budget that stretches a bit beyond $45, perhaps consider the Beats Solo 2? I've only heard them standing at the local electronics store. I thought they sounded quite good, with...

  Hi shadow,   Of course you can, I use the Z2 all the time with my amp (it's an E11) through the headphone jack.   I have heard that it might not be great for the sound quality, though. The Z2 doesn't have a LOD like Apple or Sony players do, meaning that when you plug the amp into the...

Quote:   Congrats on the purchase; I hear the E17 is a pretty nice amp and if I had one I would use it as a DAC with my laptop and the IE80, which the E11 can't do. Glad that our impressions of the E11 are similar; I don't mind using it for now, but I'm glad my experience with it reflects...

Quote:   Hmm... For other amps in that price bracket, you could try the C&C BH - I have no idea what it sounds like, but it's seen by some as a competitor to the E11. I read it has an 80 hour battery life, which is great. I have heard the Hippo Cricri with the IE80 also, but I didn't find...

Quote:   Hi, I use a FiiO E11 with the IE80. Note that I don't use line-out with the amp, which is how it's meant to be done. My player doesn't have a suitable LOD. So yes, I am 'double amping', which is meant to ruin the sound (I find it sounds all right actually, but your experience may...

Quote:   I am not totally sure whether the Momentum and its accessories are up on the Sennheiser spare parts site, but I have the brown Momentum and its cable is just black/silver. Perhaps if the red cable bothers you enough, you could just buy the replacement cable for the brown one (and...

Quote:   I have yet to hear them for myself, but I've read the (also very stylish) MDR-1R has a wider soundstage, and it's also designed for portable use. If you wanted something very similar in sound to the Momentum but with large soundstage, the only headphone I'd know is the HD600/650...

Quote:   Hey crazy,   Warm, full bodied, with inoffensive treble? Yes, I think so. Huge bass? That too; the IE80 will not sound thin at all in noisy places. I take mine on the rattly Sydney trains to uni every day, and they sound rich and full, not drowned out by the tunnel noise etc...

I use the QC15s for flying, but one IEM which has worked well for me on planes is the Klipsch X10. It's a little more expensive now (I bought them for $85 around Black Friday last), but they isolate plane noise really well for me with the dual flanges. It's probably the small size and the deep...

Quote:   Hi Jones,   1. The included ear hooks and cable clip mitigate any problems that might be experienced while using the IEM. For instance, if the wire keeps looping off your ear, simply attach the hooks to keep them in place. The shirt clip is used to reduce the movement of the...