Shure E500PTH Noise Isolating Earphones

Now that Shure have released their E500PTH Noise Isolating earphones the reviews have started to come in and they’re overwhelmingly positive.

Eric Benderoff of the Chicago Tribune loves the ‘phones and has no doubt that they’re worth the costly $500 recommended price. In common with the other reviews, the sound quality of the E500PTH really blew Eric away as well as the excellent noise-isolating capabilities and comfort. Eric’s only problem is with the bundled Push-To-Hear accessory, a clunky in-line attachment that allows you to mute your music and listen to external sounds with-out removing the earbuds. According to Benderoff “It’s a silly idea and poorly executed”.

PC World have compared the E500PTH to two other “iPod replacement” earphones, the Sennheiser MX 55 VC Street and the Creative’s Zen Aurvana. Unsurprisingly, the Shure earphones are the pick of the bunch (I should hope so, they’re five times the price of the Creative and more than twelve times the price of the Sennheiser’s!) with their sound again particularly impressing.

Finally, iLounge are again hugely impressed by the sound quality of the Shure E500PTH, going so far as to say that “Shure has delivered the ultimate in-canal earphone at a better price than its competitors - a very highly recommended offering that is too expensive for many iPod users to afford, but deserves to be worthy of their lust in the meanwhile”.

Their only real complaint about the headphones is the styling and I can understand their point. It’s a pity Shure didn’t put as much effort into choosing a color (brown, in this case) as they clearly have in creating a great sound.

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