Jens (of Sweden) unveils d-JAY earphones

They say you can't keep a good man down, and so it is with Scandinavian entrepreneur and rabble-rouser Jens Nylander, who keeps popping up with one or another device designed to enhance our portable audio experience. Usually we see Jens hawking digital audio players under the Jens of Sweden brand (now seeminlgly defunct), but today he's hit us up with a product from another one of his companies called JAYS: a pair of in-ear headphones which promise to reduce up to 90% of the surrounding noise by "producing the sound inside the ear." Known as the d-JAYS, these 'phones incorporate a proprietary Sound Isolating System built around a so-called micro armature, that Jens claims, in his typical fashion, will help reduce the risk of a hearing impairment he dubs "iPod ears." We'll find out if the d-JAYS live up to the hype come August, when they'll be shipping in a total of five colors (black, white, and three limited-edition shades) for a hundred bucks -- although you can get your pre-order on now for a 20% discount.

[Gowtham Mahalingam @ Jun 13th 2006 4:43PM]

the question is, at $100 are these going to perform well enough to oust competition from shure and etymotic, which both produce sound quality lauded by even the harshest critics?

[Neoterix @ Jun 13th 2006 4:55PM]

Eh, another Shure/Etymotic in ear armature canalphone clone. snooze.

[prOn* @ Jun 13th 2006 5:20PM]

..yawn..

[Akshat @ Jun 13th 2006 5:31PM]

Engadget - are u sure they're releasing August, I think the black and white versions will be available asap ie June. This is according to the head-fi forums btw.

[Pete Avila @ Jun 13th 2006 6:13PM]

Again I dislike the logo on the ear pieces.

[bliss @ Jun 13th 2006 9:38PM]

there's nothing like a good set of earphones...crossing my fingers

[Justin @ Jun 13th 2006 11:46PM]

Yay, yet ANOTHER company branded these same, tired OEM in-ear 'phones. Let's hear it for... oh who cares.

[Matte @ Jun 14th 2006 4:24AM]

Sounds like they can perform quite well - check out the review on the link below...

http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=181583&page=2

[Jays @ Jun 14th 2006 4:34AM]

Justin - Every little part of the d-jays is owned, created and designed by Jays. If you are so sure of yourself you can scream out that this is a oem phone - please show us ONE single brand using this model. We at Jays will give you or anyone else that finds another brand using, what you claim to be the same old oem ear phone, a reward of $1000. The hunt is on ;)

[james @ Jun 14th 2006 1:11PM]

I've used a pair of etymotics in-ear with circum-aural ear protectors over them, and could not hear the drumset in the same room, or people talking right in front of me. A nice feature of this style of nearly 100% isolation earphones would be some kind of electronic bypass so that I don't have to take them out of my head when I want to have a conversation. Even so, I much prefer the etys to those silly noise-cancelling headphones any day.

[Sam @ Jun 14th 2006 1:17PM]

Hey Jays - nice to see a company stand up for itself! Since I own the senheiser cx31s, a shure set of IEMs, etyo's, and sony IEMs I can say with with reasonable certainty that this is not OEMed and an original design. Though, Jays, why not mail me a comp set so that I can post a review here and prove the naysayers wrong? ;)
-sam
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[Nick @ Jun 19th 2006 5:15PM]

Will these work with my son's Zen Creatives Vision?