I guess it's horses for courses, because a couple of days in and the Linkbuds S seem great. I can walk down a busy road and speak and people hear me well and don't hear the cars. I like the sound too, not too exciting but nice and balanced and I can't see myself getting sick of them. Great...

In the end I bought the 1More Comfobuds Pro from Amazon, and they can have them straight back. Before I even got to call quality, the sound quality was frankly pathetic; I know it's subjective but compared to the 75ts they lacked detail, separation, punch, you name it. I can't believe all the...

I've had the Jabra 75ts for probably a couple of years, and they're fine for music but they suck for calls whenever I'm not in a quiet environment (and when I am I generally don't use earbuds for calls!). I can be walking down the street, it doesn't even have to be insanely noisy outside...

Thanks, I should update - I indeed bought refurbished Final E2000 and E3000s from hifiheadphones.co.uk's Ebay shop, they were so cheap I have budget left over for **** and Mee M6 Pro 2nd gen as (relative) beaters / testers - maybe I'll get a nice surprise! Appreciate everyone's input.

Why?

Interesting. Up until now I'd been considering Final E2000 or E3000, and a **** / C10 as a beater / experiment. I agree that the warranty is kind of tempting, half-price replacements!

I've had all kinds of headphones in my life. At some point I owned Tesla T1s (wonderful, sold due to tinnitus) and Sennheiser IE8s (weird, had to EQ the **** out of them, hence sold). Also various Grados (SR60s 20 years ago, RS1s more recently, wasn't wowed by them), Shure SRH840 (loved them but...

Okay, the UE6000s have arrived.  From the first notes of Velvet Revolver's Sucker Train Blues, I knew this would be good.  Great soundstage, detail, nice and punchy without being overblown. Very comfortable. Definitely more in love with these than the 4000s, but I need to listen to both more.  ...

Okay, the UE 4000s have arrived.  I haven't listened for very long, but I'd like to give my initial impressions.  Disclaimer: I have probably been spoiled in the past with SRH840s, and also probably forgotten just how bad $5 Deal Extreme IEMs are.  :)   I really like the comfort, and they feel...

Ah wow, you know I was concentrating here: http://www.head-fi.org/t/726275/lightweight-cans-with-good-isolation-for-listening-whilst-studying/15 because I'd be worried about losing good IEMs and I find the tips fall off cheap ones.  But I read this and for $29 with all those great reviews, I had...

I just ordered a UE4000 and UE6000 from Amazon US for $158, including international shipping and customs.  I couldn't look past the fact that they are both heavily reduced from Amazon, and I'll sell whichever one I feel is redundant.  I think I did okay, in that I sort of resisted the temptation...

Is there much of a difference between the UE4000 and the UE6000 in passive mode?  Also I'm not sure that I'd be up for using active NC - what's the 6000 isolation like without the active NC switched on?   Thanks for some amazing responses, I'm as excited as I am confused! :)

  Thanks for the feedback on the above.  I read a bit on the K450s, some people complained about muddiness and clamping (although 5 hours on a train isn't bad!!!).  I think I would like something with great isolation though.  HD380 Pro looks amazing but the coiled cable might annoy...  It seems...

After browsing a bit on Amazon, like to know what people think of K550 / HD449 / DT770 / HD380 Pro for my use case.  Too large to commute with?

Thanks for continued feedback - I'll look at all of them - argh, too many options.... At least at the exotic end there are less to choose from... ;)   The DT1350 / HD25 look out of budget, but maybe second-hand.  Typical head-fi scenario coming up.  ;)  I read some amazing reviews of the HD25...

Thanks both of you for the suggestions.  I couldn't find much on the Soundmagics, there was a suggestion that the build quality wasn't all that.  On the JVCs I heard that the isolation isn't all that.  Any comments on either of those topics?   My Googling on those two also brought the Sony...

Listen mainly to rock, prog, folk, blues country, fusion.  Like a presentation that has excitement, but also not fatiguing.   I had some IE8s a while ago, I thought they were good once EQd, but the isolation wasn't great, and overall I feel they were good but I expected more for the money...

I'll check them out, thanks.  How are the build quality and isolation?

Listen mainly to rock, prog, folk, blues country, fusion.  Like a presentation that has excitement, but also not fatiguing.   I had some IE8s a while ago, I thought they were good once EQd, but the isolation wasn't great, and overall I feel they were good but I expected more for the money...

Reposting with more detail to help you to help me. :)   Would appreciate a recommendation for some headphones / IEMs / earbuds for my girlfriend to wear whilst she's studying in the library.  Some salient points: She likes rockier music, however she is not fussy about signatures, she's...

Would appreciate a recommendation for some headphones / IEMs / earbuds for my girlfriend to wear whilst she's studying in the library.  Some salient points: She likes rockier music In the library, isolation is important She's not very good at looking after her stuff, so nothing too...

Would appreciate a recommendation for some headphones / IEMs / earbuds for my girlfriend to wear whilst she's studying in the library.  Some salient points: She likes rockier music In the library, isolation is important She's not very good at looking after her stuff, so nothing too...

Thanks for the replies - one saying try an iPod - you never know, and one saying it needs a better source than an iPod!  :)  I guess everyone has an opinion...   My sources are generally laptop / desktop soundcards with FLAC or Google Music (320k MP3 standard).   I would like to buy an...

 I'm a bit late to the party - I bought my buttonless RS1s (not 'i') second-hand from a forum member last year, but only now am I getting a chance to really listen to them.  My sources are mainly rock 60s - present, proggy stuff but anything with some excitement and dynamics.  Not a posh source...

Oops, wrong thread.  Mod please delete.  :blush: