Ear-canal headphones, or earplugs (as I like to address them) have gained immense popularity among music-lovers; though it doesn't necessarily mean that they are the best type that suit all. They can be great, but it totally depends on how comfortable you are using them. I find many people keeping away from them simply because they didn't fancy the idea of earphones entering their ear-canals, or because of the vacuum it creates; while others don't mind this and love the whole isolated music experience.
In the ear-canal earphones category, one of the pairs that Sennheiser offers is the CX400. It promises to provide premium sound quality and sound isolation, along with comfort in more ways.
You have mentioned that it is better than all earplugs you have used, but have you tested Creative Aurvana in-ear phones? They are available at around 4000/- but they are multi-driver design rather than single driver like cx-400 or creative own EP-630
by nishikant
from mumbai
on 18/05/08 10:54 AM
You keep saying in the review that the earphones create a vacuum inside the ears. But that is not possible. That's because sound requires a material medium to travel and in case of earphones it uses the air between the speakers and eardrums to propagate. If it were vacuum, the sound wouldn't propagate at all and we would here nothing. All that these in-ear earphones do is create a barrier between your ears and the external world so that you do not get disturbed by the ambient noises. They don't create a vacuum. A vacuum inside the ears can totally damage the ear drums.
by krazzy
from Mumbai
on 16/05/08 12:53 PM
As usual over priced -- these r available on Amazon for $ 32, but here they want to charge three times as much !!!
by vijayshimla
from Shimla 171001
on 14/05/08 10:31 PM
A bit funny this... but what you say scary, the guy who reviewed the bose earphones terms it as good design in the heading snippet
by Nitesh
from Mumbai
on 14/05/08 08:43 PM
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