In-ear headphones (again)

[Albannach]

I've finally downgraded my beloved Panasonic RP-HJE900E-Ks to 'Holiday' status and am now on the search for a set of better in-ear headphones.

A while back, when I said I liked the RP-HJE900E-Ks, a couple of you pooh-pooh'd them as being cheap and not the best quality I could have bought for my money.

Well, here's your chance to prove yourself, which in-ear headphones are better? Amongst others, I like Grado Gr10s but there may be better out there.

Opinions please.

[gwh200]

Re your edit Andy...no,not really.

[Koi]

Monster heartbeats by lady gaga are supposed to be good as well as the panasonic RP HC55 which have a noise cancelling feature. Bloke at work has the panasonic and they do sound good, the noise cancelling bit needs an AA batttery so it needs to be clipped to a shirt etc or it pulls the ear pieces out but does have quite a long cable.

Depends on your budget and what you want them for, just for ipod music or for mobile phone as well.

Anothe bloke at work got a set of Klipsch for over a £100 and found out they only worked on certain ipod & blackberry, luckily they exchanged them as the shop told him they worked on all devices, wrong.

[Apache]

If you really MUST have in-ear, Grado are well respected, as are Sennheisser and Shure.

Personally I'd go for conventional every time, and look at Sennheisser, Bose and AKG amongst others.

[GBV8]

I'll go with Apache on this one with the Sennheisser's. I've had a few different models over the years but they get my vote. I only use the in-ear ones too.
I'm not a fan of walking about with two 'brake drums' slung over my head.

[flounderbout]

If you really MUST have in-ear, Grado are well respected, as are Sennheisser and Shure.

Personally I'd go for conventional every time, and look at Sennheisser, Bose and AKG amongst others.

Yeah, conventional headphones both sound better and make you look cool.

I'd go for some of these...

[Apache]

W... T... F????

[TonyN]

Good thread, off to google these listed. I want some bluetooth in-ear ones as getting fed up with catching the cable all the time.

They don't have to be fantastic, I usually have audio books on during the day when working, but do want music to sound 'nice' as well.

[Albannach]

I really MUST have in ear buds for at least 4 reasons.

1 - Folk walking around the streets with 'proper' headphones on look like w4nkers.
2 - I can't wear 'proper' headphones when I'm on the 'bike.
3 - Buds are handy.
4 - I already have 'proper' headphones.

I'll look in to the suggestions in the thread. I'm still waiting for details of all these high end buds (apart from the Grados) that make my Panasonics look cheap...

[Apache]

Ah ok. I only ever use 'phones at home, so go for 'full' ones. Bose as it happens - and £250 worth in the UK tha I got for about 1/3rd of that in the States.

[yoshie]

These
work well

[Albannach]

My home ones are Sennheiser HD 650. They are good, but not brilliant, I need to upgrade them at some point.

[J i m s t e r]

I got some Shure SE210s a couple of years ago. Only one of the 10008 sets of earbuds they come with work for me. And they've just ripped.

They sound about 1% better than the Sony MDR-EX70LP's that I'd had since 2001. I know this because I bought more Sonys to use on the bike.

I wouldn't spend any more because they get dropped and snagged a bit but if you are minted, this probably isn't an issue.

[Albannach]

These
work well

Only 50% correct there, they work

[Albannach]

I wouldn't spend any more because they get dropped and snagged a bit but if you are minted, this probably isn't an issue.

The RP-HJE900E-K are quite tough and each bud is connected to the cable with a tiny wee jack plug. So dropping and snagging weren't issues with them. If I buy new ones, both these scenarios will be taken into account.