Noise blocking earbuds?

[John Doe]

They fit into the ear canal instead of just hanging on the ear. Any
contemporary professionals interested in the technology? Mainly
curious.

[Scott Dorsey]

John Doe > wrote:
>They fit into the ear canal instead of just hanging on the ear. Any
>contemporary professionals interested in the technology? Mainly
>curious.

Those aren't earbuds, those are in-ear transducers. Most of the commercial
ones use transducer assemblies from Knowles, although Etymotic makes their
own. Of the ones with the standard transducers, I like the Live Wires
sets.
--scott

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[John Doe]

(Scott Dorsey) wrote:

....

> Those aren't earbuds,

Semantically speaking.

> those are in-ear transducers.

Sounds like very topical jargon. A search for "in-ear transducers" at
online merchants (like Amazon) produces zero relevant results.

If that is well accepted terminology, I appreciate the correction.

[Scott Dorsey]

John Doe > wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>
>> Those aren't earbuds,
>
>Semantically speaking.
>
>> those are in-ear transducers.
>
>Sounds like very topical jargon. A search for "in-ear transducers" at
>online merchants (like Amazon) produces zero relevant results.
>
>If that is well accepted terminology, I appreciate the correction.

You can try "in-ear monitors" and you will turn up a bunch of common
ones. That's an application, strictly speaking, rather than a device.

These are what people called "earphones" before the earbud craze
came along.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Les Cargill]

John Doe wrote:
> (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> Those aren't earbuds,
>
> Semantically speaking.
>
>> those are in-ear transducers.
>
> Sounds like very topical jargon. A search for "in-ear transducers" at
> online merchants (like Amazon) produces zero relevant results.
>

Earbuds tend to be shaped like (small, upholstered) coins that you
lay in your ear, in-ears are shaped more like bullets you stick
in your ear. In ears act not only as transducers but
also as earplugs.

> If that is well accepted terminology, I appreciate the correction.

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Les Cargill

[John Doe]

Anyone here have an opinion on Apple's dual driver in-ear headphones?
If so...
I am speaking in relative terms... How bad is it compared to others
in its price range? Seems they do not use "dual driver" as a
marketing gimmick.

[Scott Dorsey]

John Doe > wrote:
>Anyone here have an opinion on Apple's dual driver in-ear headphones?
>If so...
>I am speaking in relative terms... How bad is it compared to others
>in its price range? Seems they do not use "dual driver" as a
>marketing gimmick.

It's made from the dual-armature driver that Knowles sells. It's okay,
but there is no custom earmold for it, so you're stuck with using the
rubber insert that comes with it. It's a hell of a lot better than
any of the crappy earbuds.

Some folks will say the dual-armature Knowles is better than the more
expensive three-armature Knowles. I have never done a careful A-B.

Apple also sells the Etymotic ER-6, which is sort of a cheapened down
version of the standard Etymotic driver. I think it's better than the
Knowles units but it's also more money. Custom inserts are available.
Isolation with the custom inserts is much better.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."