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Earbuds and Headphones IEM

Just a quick question err reassure me before i buy that i need to buy a set with 3 pin layout right?
Are all the 3 pin layouts the same ie.. if i find one with the 3 it will work?
Like say this...
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I want to buy these but i really don't know if they work or not...
hxxp://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Earphones-Microphone-iPhone-Compatible/dp/B002RWJDB6/ref=acc_glance_e_ai_purchase_similarities_t_4
Please any and all help and criticism welcome too...

I won't comment on the pins but if you're replacing the stock earphones for better sound quality, these will not give it. I have not listened to these but I have to a higher-end model of JBuds and they sound worse than stock.

The JVC Air Cushions on Amazon for 16-20$ are amazing, especially with PowerAmp app and listening to Techno/Electronic/House music, as well as everything else. I bought a 75$ pair of NuForce 700X IEMs and they sounded the same as my 20$ JVC Air Cushions.
This
http://www.amazon.com/JVC-HAFX66W-C...PH6U/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1296386326&sr=8-3

Compatibility question
I have been searching far and wide for compatible in-ear headphones with a mic.
Looking at the pinout differences between the iphone and most android phones, I was very disappointed in what is available. The GND and MIC signals are reversed for many popular android phones compared to the iphone headset pinout. However, the other day, I plugged my friend's iphone headset into my captivate... AND IT WORKED!! I was shocked! I tried my headset in her iphone and that also worked.
Does this mean that iphone headsets work with the captivate? I would just love it if the headset and mic worked. Buttons would be nice, but you can't have everything.
Does anyone have experience with the Klipsch S4i or the Ultimate Ears 500vi with their captivates?

I have experience with the Ultimate Ears TripleFi 5vi on the Captivate and it works, so I'd imagine that extends to all iPhone compatible headsets. I checked out the 500vi and those use diaphragm rather than balanced armature drivers, even though they are not that different in price. I really suggest going for the pair with the better drivers, as there will be a drastic difference in sound quality.

If anyone cares...
Ok this is what i found in the I9000 forum hope it works for what i want...
Ebay link paid $13 shipped from UK...
This is what i want from it Vol up down button and mic...
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88EVGAFTW said:
The JVC Air Cushions on Amazon for 16-20$ are amazing, especially with PowerAmp app and listening to Techno/Electronic/House music, as well as everything else. I bought a 75$ pair of NuForce 700X IEMs and they sounded the same as my 20$ JVC Air Cushions.
This
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These earbuds...are the cord lengths of equal length or is one cord shorter than the other? I hate that around the back of the neck crap. I hate how manufactures and retailers never explicitly tell you.
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THIS DOES NOT WORK WITH THE CAPPY!!!
Lol now that i got that out of the way waiting for the other adapter for my phone...

jjojjojoe said:
Does anyone have experience with the Klipsch S4i or the Ultimate Ears 500vi with their captivates?
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I have the S4, but I'm interested in trying the S4i. Anyone have an answer for jjojjojoe's question?

Etys
The Etymotic HF2 work great with the Captivate and the quality is great.
By the way, has anybody tried the HF3? They don't work with some Android phones with I haven't found anything about the Captivate.

Play/pause music with in-line mic control button
Lots of headphone/mic threads, so wanted to bump one with recent activity to ask a question.
I recently upgraded to GB, was listening to music with a seat of headphones with an in-line mic. I paused the song using the control button on the mic, had a conversation, and when I clicked the mic button again...nothing. The button would only begin playing the paused song if the screen was on. I tried several different lock screens, music players, widgets etc. No matter what, I experienced this functionality:
1. Music is playing
2. Screen times out after X minutes, or I turn if off with a click of the power button
3. 1 click from the in-line mic button will pause the music
4. If I click again within ~5 seconds, the music will begin to play again
5. If I wait 5-10+ seconds before clicking, the music will not start again with a single click until after I turn the screen back on again.
I’m almost 99% sure that this wasn’t the case on my old Froyo-based ROM, so I wanted to check in to see if this is just standard for everyone.
Thanks!

Good earphones

Can anyone recommend good earphones for SGS2? I've got Sennheiser CX400II and they sound rubbish with this phone. I tried them on my son's Experia Play and they sound decent there. I used to have a different pair of Sennheiser, which were quite good but I lost them and I do not know the number of the model.

TA123 said:
Can anyone recommend good earphones for SGS2? I've got Sennheiser CX400II and they sound rubbish with this phone. I tried them on my son's Experia Play and they sound decent there. I used to have a different pair of Sennheiser, which were quite good but I lost them and I do not know the number of the model.
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Get a i9000 for music, the dac on the sgs2 is rubbish

It's so annoying how bad audio quality is on this. I've got some average Klipsch S3's I use for daily use, on my iP4 my ears are vibrating with the bass, on this I can barely hear the music. The ones that come supplied with the S2 are better on the S2, but nothing else. The cheaply made quality to them is so irritating too.
= What are you even doing asking whether or not you should root your phone on XDA?! =

thats odd!
my sgs2 sounds way better than any ip4 or sgs1 i ever tried!!!
im talking about sony XB700 !!

The oem headset lost output from the left earphone as well.
So I can only hear music from the right earphone.
The headset is cheap ****e..

Strange...I use 5 euros in-ear and audio quality is good...

I had the Samsung earphones that came with the phone and ever since the 2.3.5 upgrade and using power amp and equalizer the sound quality is excellent, i lost the earphones but i was so impressed with them i bought them on Amazon again and the sound quality is absolutely fine unless your a total snob when it comes to the "perfect sound" the Samsung earphones do the job very nicely.

U guys can give it a try, not only for sgs2!
FiiO E7 USB DAC and Portable Headphone Amplifier

Try using the stock music player.
If you use the 3rd party players, you can instantly tell that the 3rd party music players screwed the whole thing up.

Klipsch S4a. Boom.

Can't go wrong with Bose IE2

http://www.earphonesolutions.com/shure-se215.html
Using this earphones now for nearly a month.
Impressive qualtiy.
Flac over sgs2
really good.

I use Sennheiser CX300II, they're pretty cool, really good actually, turning my volume up high with some nice bass on the train, drowns out all crap that goes on around me.
What's better still, is they were a gift from my employer's for Christmas

These. With Comply tips, they sound brilliant. Obviously the recording you're listening to is important, 128kbps MP3's (or less ) are going to sound ****e no matter what you stick in your ears.

I use stock in-ear headset that comes with the phone together with dsp and cm7 music app.. sounds very good!

I'm using sennheiser cx300's too. Excellent earphones. Very happy with the sound......
But if I plug my phone into a stereo the audio output is terrible.
Very disappointing.
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Been using Sol Republic Track HD and they sound amazing with Power Amp.
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best so far
http://www.meelec.com/Clarity_Series_CC_51P_Ceramic_In_Ear_Headphone_WT_p/ep-cc51p-wt-mee.htm

crx16 said:
I'm using sennheiser cx300's too. Excellent earphones. Very happy with the sound......
But if I plug my phone into a stereo the audio output is terrible.
Very disappointing.
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I have the exact same problem sounds great with earphones but when i plugged it into the speakers sounds absolutely terrible not sure why
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Shure SE315 get my vote, excellent quality.
PowerAMP & FLAC

Sennheiser MM 550-X Travel Bluetooth Headset with Apt-X

So, I'm analyzing the info found on the internet and this headset seems to be pretty good. People praise the sound chip of SGS3 promising a really good sound. How good can it be? Could it at least be comparable with sound of Cowon products (I own J3)?
I checked the prices, seems like MM 550-X Travel costs half of SGS3 if not more. Pretty pricey...
Just prices differ a lot, check these out, the same product but prices are way too different:
333 EUR
423 EUR
On this page, one of the users complained that the volume level of MM 550-X is the same bad as MM 550 and he owns both headsets. He says that these headsets have too low maximum volume and it is not enjoyable to listen because of that.
I was checking the specs on the Sennheiser website.
I own three Sennheiser headphones myself, they all are sounding very good, loud and overall quality is excellent. So lets get into loudness specs to compare with the models I have:
Sennheiser HD 650: Sound pressure level (SPL) 103 dB
Sennheiser RS 180: Sound pressure level (SPL) 110 dB
Sennheiser MM 550-X Travel: Sound pressure level (SPL) 107 dB (at 1 mW, 1 kHz)
So, as I see by the numbers - the loudness is OK. At least the numbers of the headphones that I already have and use every day and my personal experience say that 107 dB is ENOUGH
I'm using these headphones with computers and media center and these have pretty good outputs, i rarely need to use the maximum output.
But what output via Bluetooth will SGS3 have? There were numbers of outputs including wired headphones, but what about Bluetooth?

How about these.....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/JayBird-JB-...9?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1337284517&sr=1-9
Jaybirds

I don't know, I use Sennheiser products for years, they are top notch

My sennheiser mx500 were unusable on my sgs1 til supercurio released voodoo sound. They were far too quiet. Now excellent.
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any other options?

lol you know theyre expensive when you check their website, and theres no price, but a checkout option.. $500 dollar headphones..
i love sennheiser, i just wish they didnt look like skullcandies
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AMoosa said:
How about these.....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/JayBird-JB-...9?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1337284517&sr=1-9
Jaybirds
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It is very heavy. The Sennheiser is ~3X more light.

Zisworg said:
It is very heavy. The Sennheiser is ~3X more light.
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Really?? I have the Jay bird and they are extremely light. And only £89
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AMoosa said:
Really?? I have the Jay bird and they are extremely light. And only £89
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love this headset and looking forward to trying it out with the sIII on the 30th, especially if you are an active person they dont shift off your head at all. Comfy too!
My dog ate my covers for the earpieces though and now the metal is not so comfy and i cant find the spares that came with them now! If anyone knows where i can buy any that'd be awesome!
UK based

Great set of earbuds to pair with your HTC 10

So since we didn't receive any Hi-Res earbuds in the US I was looking for some that sounded great without breaking the bank and I think I found a winner. For only $26 you can't beat the quality. I ordered mine directly from the mi.com website to ensure I didn't get some fakes. They have dual drivers also just like the HTC 10 and sound better than my beats urbeats for sure. http://www.mi.com/en/headphonespro/
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Had these for the past 3 months and I agree, for the price it can't be beat. They sound even better with v4a imo.

Nice! Are they loud?

Lurien said:
Nice! Are they loud?
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Yes they are.
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Would you say that these would sound better than for example like Bose soundtrue headphones. i been wanting a new pair to take advantage of my htc 10. I have researched for awhile but i don't know what to get?

daniel2744 said:
Would you say that these would sound better than for example like Bose soundtrue headphones. i been wanting a new pair to take advantage of my htc 10. I have researched for awhile but i don't know what to get?
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I've never heard those before so I couldn't tell you. But these sound awesome.
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Lancerz said:
So since we didn't receive any Hi-Res earbuds in the US I was looking for some that sounded great without breaking the bank and I think I found a winner. For only $26 you can't beat the quality. I ordered mine directly from the mi.com website to ensure I didn't get some fakes. They have dual drivers also just like the HTC 10 and sound better than my beats urbeats for sure. http://www.mi.com/en/headphonespro/
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How do you find them? I had this pair for over 6 months and I do like them but compare it to the previous piston2, it seems lack some bass but overall a good neutral sounding earphone

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How do you find them? I had this pair for over 6 months and I do like them but compare it to the previous piston2, it seems lack some bass but overall a good neutral sounding earphone
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I never has the piston2, but I did have a pair of the mi colorful editions which sound great also but I gave them to my son since he lost his others. And those were only $5 shipped so for the price it's really hard to beat their headphones and the quality is great.
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Lancerz said:
I never has the piston2, but I did have a pair of the mi colorful editions which sound great also but I gave them to my son since he lost his others. And those were only $5 shipped so for the price it's really hard to beat their headphones and the quality is great.
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Yeah I agree in term of bang for bux xiaomi is hard to beat.

KZ Ates are very very good with the 10 and for only 9$ delivered free with aliexpress it's crazy not to buy them.
The bundled Hi-res earphones are slightly better in terms of soundstage but a bit too much on treble side, the KZ Ates are more balanced but with an emphasis to bass though without making shades over other channels, they have a great amount of details too.
They have a memory wire perfect for sports

I've got Xiaomi Piston 2s and yes, Xiaomi makes the best price to performance earbuds on the market. I lose earbuds quite a bit, this is my second pair of Piston 2s, and I had 2 pairs of Piston 1s as well. Hopefully I don't lose these, but when I inevitably do I'll grab the new ones.

Hard to argue with xiamois price to performance. But a dynamic + BA hybrid is hard to come by for <100. Might have to try these out.

Supplied Earphones

The supplied earphones are white in my UK Platinum model!
The earbuds are a bit too big and don't fit very well in my left ear. I used crappy apple type earphones for my current phone and do not have any earbuds I can refit. What do you recommend is a good pair or earphones in UK that are very reasonably priced!

Soundmagic e10, the best and cheap.
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Aid777 said:
The supplied earphones are white in my UK Platinum model!
The earbuds are a bit too big and don't fit very well in my left ear. I used crappy apple type earphones for my current phone and do not have any earbuds I can refit. What do you recommend is a good pair or earphones in UK that are very reasonably priced!
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china:
https://www.banggood.com/Original-Xiaomi-Hybrid-Pro-Three-Drivers-Graphene-Earphone-Headphone-With-Mic-For-iPhone-Android-p-1103184.html?rmmds=search

Any minimal price earphone suggestion?that i can hear the power of a quad dac audio.

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Any minimal price earphone suggestion?that i can hear the power of a quad dac audio.
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Soundmagic e10 are superb!

I find the (presumably) same white earphones included with my 870DS to be fine, but the DAC doesn't normalise the sound. So volume levels are all over the place if files aren't normalised in advance (I only use flac files). So I use high quality bluetooth 4.1 earphones when on the go, and a high quality mini-jack to phono cable for playing through my hifi amp. Given the price of a dedicated hifi music player, such as the Pioneer XDP-300R, which has only a twin dac but includes a balanced output, or the Fiio X5, which has coaxial digital output but no dac, the G6 does an admirable job for the money.

Jostian said:
Soundmagic e10 are superb!
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I don't have much idea about sound, but i read somewhere at least 50ohms is required to feel the quad dac.your mentioned earbud Impedance is 46 Ohms.i have apple earpod.which is 45 ohms.
If anything wrong i said please enlighten me.
Btw thanx for the suggestion.

Not sure about the ohms but the sound quality from the e10's is really amazing, though the bundled earphones are better than expected to.
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Yeah, i find the bundled earphones pretty damn good.
They look cheap as hell, excluding the braided cable, so i was sure they'll sound like ****. Was pleasantly surprised by them.

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sagor1 said:
I don't have much idea about sound, but i read somewhere at least 50ohms is required to feel the quad dac.your mentioned earbud Impedance is 46 Ohms.i have apple earpod.which is 45 ohms.
If anything wrong i said please enlighten me.
Btw thanx for the suggestion.
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Soundmagic ES-50 and Sony MDR 510-AS both are 50+ ohms earphones that I found good and cheapest.

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Soundmagic ES-50 and Sony MDR 510-AS both are 50+ ohms earphones that I found good and cheapest.
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i am really confused, because on amazon.in show 16 ohm and Sony site show 56ohm.

sagor1 said:
i am really confused, because on amazon.in show 16 ohm and Sony site show 56ohm.
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Always parent site shows true one right ? Try some authorised online sites selling audio accessories exclusively and check details and let us know.. I will search by my side too

Any recommendations for earbud type, similar to the classic Apple earbuds?
(I have the regular G6 without quad-dac)
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Always parent site shows true one right ? Try some authorised online sites selling audio accessories exclusively and check details and let us know.. I will search by my side too
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Check the comment
http://musicphotolife.com/2017/05/sony-mdr-xb510as-review-washable-sports-earphones/