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Logged Monday, 18th October 2004 - Daily - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Check out my Recently sidebar. Lots of new gadgets, restaurants and bars in the past couple of weeks. Busy lad. Also continuing on the In-Ear headphone front I took CM's advice and bought a pair Shure's. I picked up the E3c's with a rec. retail of US$179 for US$135 at JR in NYC. They're decent, fairly crisp sounding although still lacking in bass for my liking. Honestly, the standard issue iPod buds still have better bass. It takes me a lot of fiddling to get them properly inserted into my ears. They're certainly good headphones for flying, but are inpractical for office use as they have to be removed so people can talk to you and then take too long to re-insert. I guess I'll get better at inserting them correctly quickly so my opinions on appropriate usage scenarios may change. Tried the uber Bose noise cancelling headphones too, but I'm not sure I like noise cancelling. While it sounds quiet, it feels like there is pressure on my ears from the constant inverse cancelling(?) and therefore found them uncomfortable. I think I prefer the In-Ear approach of just blocking the sound out rather than cancelling. Interestingly the Bose model I looked at is standard issue in Business Class on American Airlines 777's. They go to a great deal of trouble making sure they've accounted for each headset handed out during the flight.

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