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I got an iPod. Now what?

Last updated: October 24th, 2010

The iPod is the best digital music player period. We can talk all day long about Zune, SanDisk, Sony, etc. but when you put iTunes in the mix, I absolutely see no comparison and the iPod wins by a looooong shot.

Since back in 2004 the only big "but" of the iPod was the stock earbuds. "They don't stay in place", "they sound tiny", "there is no bass", "they keep falling", "they hurt my ears", "one of the sides stopped playing", "the cable is broken", the earbuds don't work anymore", "the stock earbuds plain suck".

"...the revelation here is that the iPod,
combined with high-end in ear headphones,
becomes a completely different animal
than the iPod with stock earbuds."

The Best Earphones for the iPod - Over 2,000 Customer Reviews Posted

Last updated: October 24th, 2010

Parallel to the soon to become iPod universe, a small segment was developing high-end in ear headphones for professional musicians. Not for iPod players - because back then, nobody in their right mind would pay more for earphones than what they paid for their iPods - but these high-end in ear headphones were being developed by professional audio companies such as Shure and Westone and after that by Ultimate Ears. These were being used more and more by professional musicians for stage monitoring as many of them were going deaf prematurely due to the very high decibel levels of the stage monitors. This deafness caused by "on tour" performances were taking victims like Phil Collins and many other high profile artists.

So on one side you had this giant tsunami called the Apple iPod. On the other, a tiny wave of very high end micro driver in ear headphones, equipped with balanced armature drivers. It took a while for these 2 to meet but when they did, the iPod gave a huge push on many segments of this industry (ourselves included).

Soon people realized that the iPod player was not the limitation in the sound experience, but the speakers themselves. In this case the infamous Apple iPod stock white earbuds. When some musicians started to plug their professional in-ear headphones into their iPods, a whole new HD, audiophile quality sound was revealed. Because these tiny ear canal headphones would go inside the, well, ear canal, the efficiency combined with isolation started to show that the iPod could in reality deliver an audiophile like listening experience.

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