| |  Best Earphones $150-$300Best Less Than $50 | Best $51-$100 | Best $100-$149 | Best $150-$300 | Best $300 + How we do it:12 people (4 females and 8 males) among employees, friends and family members, voted, on each price range, for the earphones that sounded and fitted their best. We limited the songs to 7: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Take Five (Dave Brubeck), It's a Beautiful Day (U2), Viva La Vida (Coldplay), Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash), One More Drink (Ludacris) and Iron Man (Black Sabbath). Each person could skip between any of those 7 songs with each earphone model on a given price range group of models. They had to listen to at least one time each song with each model before voting for their favorite model on each price range.
Westone 2 earphones overall performance, comfort and fit, easily beats some competitors that cost $300 plus. The new Westone 2 packs a bunch of eartip options (10) and the drivers have been improved delivering more detail on the mids and highs and stronger bass than the competition. Last Updated March 16, 2010
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 |  | | The Westone UM2 dual driver in-ear earphones provide perfectly balanced output with a very musical sound. We also like their superior designed cables and the outstanding customer service Westone offers extremely fast and responsive. Both the UM2 and the UM1 are made in the USA. | | |  | | The new Westone 2 along with the Westone 1, which share the same exact casing, are the most comfortable earphones in the market tested so far. With a 2-way passive crossover built-in and 2 dedicated drivers on each earpiece, the Westone 2 outputs great sound quality. The bass, mids and highs are improved over the little brother Westone 1, while featuring the same excellent cable design. If you have a $350 budget, get the Westone 2 for $249 and save a $100! They will outperform all the earphones we tested even in higher price categories only losing in sound to Turbine Pro Copper ($399), Westone 3 ($399) and if you really like your bass pumping, the UM2 ($299). | | |  | | Turbine Pro Gold has awesome overall sound delivering crisp highs and thumping bass, however it comes in second here because the UM2 cable design is very hard to beat and the forward mid range was most of our staff's preference. In the end comfort and fit gave the top position in this price range to the Made in USA UM2. | |
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