Those of you who have iPods know what I mean by wear and tear. After using the iPod earphones for about 1 year, they'll sound like crap. Yeah crap, the quality of the sound gets reduced by a whole bunch and it only produces very, very low sound, so this is the reason you see a lot of teens with...

Yeah. Why does everyone say that Sensaphonics is awesome but not better than JH and UE. What's the main difference? and Why don't people mention Sensaphonics too much.

Okay, today I got my Etymotic HF5 and the sound isolation is freaking awesome, with the foam of course. These are the HF5's isolation specs. ---Noise isolation: 35- 42 dB (depending on eartip used) I tested the 3 flanged and the foams it came with, the foams won for best sound isolation...

I'm getting the Etimotic HF5. Because I was told it has the cheapest(price) BEST sound isolation. Now, I also heard that the sleeves/ear tips suck and are super stiff. How can I get the the softest and most durable and most noise blocking sleeves? Remember this, I wear earphones...

YUP. I don't care about sound quality or any other mumbo jumbo that doesn't help isolate sound. My only goal in buying phones is to keep ALL environment sounds when I put on the phones. I heard blocking out environment noise is measured like this, Noise Isolation -20dB or whatever...