Digital Home Thoughts: pocketnow - "Future Sonics' Ears EM3"

"It is a commonality these days to see people turning their backs on their portable CD players and adopting a digital audio player or Pocket PC device to play their digital music. These devices offer mega-huge capacities, dynamic audio control, and a graphical user interface. Often times, though, they come with inadequate ear-bud headphones that have a range of frequencies limited to those blaring from the tweeters in your car. In my quest for an ultimate ear-bud headphone, I came across Future Sonics (notorious for their monitoring products, used by almost every news agency and dozens of recording artists.) Their Ears headphones promise "Superior Low Frequencies" and "Full Dynamic Range." Being a very discriminate audiophile, I was naturally skeptical. And this is what I found...

The Ears use different sized sleeves to fit the canal of your ear. The sleeves are made of a similar material comparable to "memory foam," a material often touted in late-night infomercials for use on beds. This material, when made smaller and inserted into your ear canal, expands to create a tight fit, canceling out noise around you. This alone improves the dynamics of the audio, because it makes each frequency more true without outside interference. "



Looks like they really work, but to be honest I can't get beyond the fact they look like $150 retro airline headphones. 8O