Yes, I'm an earphone lover. I love music, I love sound and I love earphones. I try to wear a set at all times to avoid listening to the assholes 'round me :) And well, this is the list of the earphones I currently own, in no particular order: - ★ Etymotic mc5, metallic black. Isolation is unbelievable!
- Got me a new pair of Sennheiser HD-201, to replace the ones Haru destroyed last year.
- Meelec M11+, metallic red. Darn pretty look, darn good sound. My review here. My favourite all terrain phones. I have to order another pair in black...
- A pair of iBuds, believe it or not.
- Meelec M6, clear. Wow, these look cool!
- Meelec M9, silver. Probably the earphone with the best price/quality relationship. I like them!
- Philips SHE3581, white. Not bad. Philips gave me them when I bought a hair trimmer!
- Kanen KM92, wood. You wouldn't believe how cheap are these, and they don't sound bad at all!. Real wood.
- AKG K-313. My only non-IEM by now. I'm an IEM guy. They are VERY good but don't isolate shit.
- SoundMagic MP21. An error from FocalPrice. I wanted the PL21, they sent the MP21 (with mic).
In the past, I have had many others. Some of them were eaten by my cat, Gato, and others by my pussycat, Haru. Others, I gave to friends. This is the list, more or less up to date:
- Meelec CC51. Utterly beautiful. I've written a review. I got them back from Esther and were my favourites in sound. Unfortunately, shit happens and the cable got broken. The cable was always my main source of concern with these puppies :(
- TDK EB900, black. The "EB" is for "Enhanced Basses". For bassheads only... Sold them.
- SoundMAGIC PL50, metallic blue. A cheap balanced armature. Decent for the price. The left driver decided to die :(
- Meelec CX21. The entry model of the new Clarity series from Meelec. Review here. Gave them to my friend Dabisu :)
- Meelec M21, metallic blue. Absolutely great. I gave them to a friend, Arufuredo Sama!.
- Meelec M6, polished black. Cool, airy and comfortable. Gave them to a friend, Raquel.
- Meelec M9, black. Esther has them by now.
- Meelec A151. The first balanced armature from Meelec. Review here. My wife is using them now.
- Sansa earbuds, not bad, but not remarkable. I threw them to the face of Arufuredo Sama.
- Sennheiser MX-560, I gave them to someone. Don't remember.
- Sennheiser HD-201, I liked them a lot. My only full sized cans at the time. Haru decided to have them for breakfast. After eating the cable, she noticed she was so full she couldn't eat the rest, so she limited to wreak havoc biting furiously.
- Meelec M2. More than one pair. Some of them destroyed by my wife, Esther.
- Meelec M11. Very good quality, but I didn't like the sound signature. I gave them to a friend, Jesús.
- Sennheisser HD-228. Not my piece of cake. Isolation was not bad, but not IEM-like, either. Sound was a bit congested, being closed back and that. They stayed there, defiant, insulting, challenging Haru all the time. Finally Haru taught them a lesson they wouldn't forget. She brought me the cable to show me she had won the fight. I somewhat managed to add them a shorter cable and gave them to Arufuredo Sama, so he could have a pair of comfortable phones.
- SoundMAGIC PL30. They caused me a problem in the ear canal, they peeled... They sounded quite good, but we had a very sour relationship. I finally sold them to a friend, Paco.
- JVC FX66B. Brought from Japan from my good friend David. Gato decided that they would make a quite decent appetizer and devoured them with fruition. After that they didn't sound good.
- JVC HA-FXC50. Not bad, but not my favourites. Haru noticed that I really didn't love the phones and destroyed them for me. She did a terrific job chewing the microdrivers. I thought they were a bit hard, but she managed quite good.
- Sennheiser PMX-100. Oh, my beloved. One of the first quality phones I had. The cable was badly damaged after years of use, but they were still usable. Nonetheless, Gato thought that biting the cable would be brilliant, but then he noticed that running through the house while biting the cable, dragging the phones around, would be MUCH better. And yes, it was. They were utterly destroyed.
- Sennheiser HD500. I bought them a lifetime ago. They were my first "quality" full cans. They lasted a lot, but finally the drivers started to disintegrate or something like that. I loved the way they sounded, the detachable cable... They were a jewel, and they costed me like a jewel, too.
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