In ear headphones

[ELIMINATOR]

i just bought a Roberts radio to use on the bike, the next step is for me to buy a pair of in ear headphones, the type that reduce external noise. Please note, I'm not interested in spending £100 + on moulded types such as Green leopard, or ultimate ear so don't bother extolling their virtues.

£50 max. is the budget.

I've looked at a lot of pictures and read their specification, what concerns me is that some of these look quite deep.

Who has experience of these, will my helmet foul on these if they protrude from my ears too far!

Shure EC2 seem to be good, someone on this site recommended them.http://www.lordpercy.com/shure_e2c.htm

 

[boarder]

FWIW i recently bought a ROBERTS radio, on AM "talksport" etc it was absolute cr*p. The nice people at John Lewis gave me my money back ..... result

 

[Beetle2112]

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/accessories/0,39100116,49283965,00.htm


I've used a pair of these for a couple of years and I've never had a problem with them. They actually fit well into the ear canal and deaden a fair bit of noise-you can still hear whatever you're listening to up to 100mph with no problems...Amazons doing them for about 20-00 quid

 

[SamD]

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/accessories/0,39100116,49283965,00.htm


I've used a pair of these for a couple of years and I've never had a problem with them. They don't give the best noise attenuation but you can still hear whatever you're listening to up to 100mph with no problems...Amazons doing them for about 20-00 quid

+1 on those, have been using them for years and at approx £20 they are a bargain

 

[KMD]

I've used Shure EC2, or E2C whatever they're called for quite a few years now, and the only thing I'd change them for is a set of molded in ear's. The Shure's do a good job of blocking out background noise and will give crystal clear speech and music at high speed, without the need for the volume to be racked up to max.

Only thing I found with them was they started to hurt a bit after a while in my Arai, but I've just done two trips totalling over two weeks riding with a Caberg Trip with no discomfort at all.

You'll find that if you wear a silk balaclava under your helmet they won't get dislodged when you put your lid on, instead of dragging them loose it just slides over them, and then holds them nicely in place.

I'd give them a big

 

[wully]

Read and inwardly digest.....

I wasted a lot of money on cheep- o headphones over the years then read this and got me a set of Q-jays...

FANTASTIC......

 

[ELIMINATOR]

I assume that all headphones perform the function of doubling up as the ariel?

This is the Roberts radio that I bought. http://www.robertsradio.co.uk/Products/Analogue_radios/Sports_988/index.htm Mostly listen to radio 2.

Without spending forever analysing the ins and outs, it looks to be a toss up between Sennheiser CX300 Black or the Shure EC2. Any thoughts out there? Shure are about £50, seinhausers area bout 1/2 the price!

 

[Andy80F]

This Radio might be interesting for those in good reception areas. I use it for running and its great.

For headphones those Q-Jays look the buisness, having never seen them for real, the picture of the chap with them in his ear makes them look ideal for under a helmet. However double your budget.
The Sennheisers however are good only if you never get a better set of headphones which will rather dramatically show them up as sounding very muddy and 'orrible but since musical fidelity is not really of too much importance under a helmet they do block a fair degree of outside noise and might be a good "starter" set to try.

 

[Noiseboy]

I personally would go with the sennheiser's because they have a much smaller profile and the sound difference of the E2's is not worth the extra cash imho.

Hope this helps Tom

 

[KMD]

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Without spending forever analysing the ins and outs, it looks to be a toss up between Sennheiser CX300 Black or the Shure EC2. Any thoughts out there? Shure are about £50, seinhausers area bout 1/2 the price!

With the Shure's it's a case of you get what you pay for. You can spend ten pounds five times before you get what you want, or fifty pounds once. Your choice really.

With the Shure's you get a whole host of different ear buds in three different sizes, and are pretty much assured a comfortable fit.

 

[ExpatinIstanbul]

I'm also looking out for some in-ear phones, and reading the lordpercy review of the Shure EC2 I'd be concerned that the background noise blocking would be a problem, for me at least. I've always felt it important to be able to hear what's going on around me, as well as see, particularly in town.

 

[sparkplug]

With the Shure's you get a whole host of different ear buds in three different sizes, and are pretty much assured a comfortable fit.

True in most cases, but I've done a couple of custom moulded earplugs for people using Shure's due to comfort problems... Never underestimate how different people's ear canals are - this makes a complete nonsense of reccomending any 'off the shelf' in-ear product for comfort.

The sound quality of the Shure's is superb though

 

[Beetle2112]

Spookily enough, I've just had a Rock Drummer type chap with NIHL in wanting me to get some Custom Earplugs made for his Shure Moniters....Siemens have just quoted me 15-00 quid to make them out of super-duper biopore soft silicon....I might send them my Sennheisers with a couple of ear imps. to see what they're like....worth a punt for 15-00 in anyones book!!

 

[sparkplug]

Spookily enough, I've just had a Rock Drummer type chap with NIHL in wanting me to get some Custom Earplugs made for his Shure Moniters....Siemens have just quoted me 15-00 quid to make them out of super-duper biopore soft silicon....I might send them my Sennheisers with a couple of ear imps. to see what they're like....worth a punt for 15-00 in anyones book!!

That's a good price - don't go asking me to make them for that

 

[ELIMINATOR]

Well, I've got them. A revelation compared to the supplied earphones. The radio/in ear headphones will be good in areas that have good reception, fortunately this will cover my commute to work.

As a test of their ability to stop external noise, they pass my test. With the radio on at my normal level, i can hear myself talking which to me, at least infers that they are good at stopping external noise and that the radio isn't on too loud.

What could be improved is the reception. Probabling waffling here! but as the headphone cable acts as the ariel, I was wondering if lengthening it might help? Ultimately i guess having an external ariel would be best after screening the cable en route to this ariel mounted to the rear of the bike?

Anyone done this?