Best Earphones by Price Range

How we do it

Updated on May 11th, 2011

This is a very subjective task but we have a group of 12 (4 females and 8 males) among employees, friends and family members that get together for some wine and vote on each price range, for the earphones that sounded and fitted their best. The songs used for our test are always the same 7 songs: 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 reviewer may skip between any of the 7 songs with each earphone model on a given price range group of models. They have to listen to at least one time each song with each model or until they feel comfortable before voting for their favorite model on each price range.