http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/ Engadget Comments for M-Audio offers up triple-driver IE-40 earbuds http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
I guess the company has either made an earth shattering discovery about mammalian anatomy, or they added a useless feature designed to suck you into paying more for a set of ear buds.]]>Oct 16th 2007 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
I've been very happy with all the M-Audio equipment I've purchased (sound cards, MIDI controlers, software, etc.). Pretty sure these phones would be top notch, but I could never imagine myself dropping 5 bennys on a set of earbuds...]]>Oct 16th 2007 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
The section "Patented Dual-Bore Design" clearly is talking about canals in the earphones and not YOUR ear canals.

*shakes head*]]>Oct 16th 2007 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
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It's about injecting the odor of multiple speakers since ear buds cannot actually provide them.

There is a lot of BS in the the speaker industry. High end audiois about 90% marketing

I worked for a company for a short time that produced automotive speakers. This is how model fabrication worked:

The graphic/industrial designer would think up a concept that sounded cool and looked visually "badass" (it was a corporate term there. Much like Micro$oft and "innovate")

AFTER the speaker design was finalized, the design would be whisked over to production where it would be very quickly sent through a program designed to make sure the speaker "worked" and which would make small adjustments in the design if necessary. This software was so old it ran on a 286 machine. The most expensive part of the speaker, not infrequently above 50% of the cost, was generally the grill and paint work. the actual enclosure and speaker(s) were minor costs.]]>Oct 16th 2007 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
Although, these IE-40 seem very similar to the UE triple.fi 10 Pro earphones, which go for $400, rather than the $500 for the M-Audios. So, if you're in the market, you might wanna check out UE directly...]]>Oct 16th 2007 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://myspace.com/wyfy) priceless....cant see paying more than it cost me to make good music to listen to someone else's ...mind you I do appreciate high end equipment..and quality....but I have some pioneer ear bud monitors which sound awsome paid $80 for those...and as mentioned above i have some skull candy smokin buds....while i can tell the difference they are also pretty dag on good.....sometimes I think the only people who will be allowed to live in the Jetsons age are the Rockefellers of the world.....tech should bring people together ....not divide by pricing the good stuff out of reach....they are probably outstanding quality the price however keeps em way up on the shelf and out of reach to someone like myself who could appreciate them........]]>Oct 16th 2007 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
I guess so then. Apparently he does get paid to sit around, because either he/she or you are lying. EE's at M-Audio just do repairs, they do not design anything.


Former M-Audio Exec.]]>Oct 16th 2007 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
I guess so then. Apparently he does get paid to sit around, because either he/she or you are lying. EE's at M-Audio just do repairs, they do not design anything.


Really "cool" headphones that stick out more than an inch and a half from your ears.

p.s. These headphones cost M-Audio $23.50 a pair and that includes shipping to them from Shanghai
Former M-Audio Exec. ]]>Oct 16th 2007 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
Keep it movin.]]>Oct 16th 2007 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/MPC-1000: $1,000
Ableton Live: $500
MacBook Pro Refurb: $1,700

Maybe you read the price wrong? They are $500. They are also just a rebranded version of the Ultimate Ears triple.fi 10 Pro buds at $400.

It's worth it to ear the nuance in your recordings.]]>Oct 16th 2007 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
ihavetinybals, M-Audio phones are not 'shit', just overpriced.

NSoria, eBay has Triple.Fi 10s for $360 if you really want these now.

Blakamin, if you ever heard real IEMs (especially triple driver IEMs like these or Shure E500s) you'd know how much better these are than SkullCandy's 'bass and nothing else' earphones.]]>Oct 16th 2007 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 17th 2007 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
Just like your home stereo system will likely have a subwoofer, a mid-range woofer, and a tweeter, with each speaker covering it's own area of the frequency spectrum.

It means you don't have to force all frequencies out of a single driver and increase your chances of distortion.

But you enjoy your medical science.]]>Oct 16th 2007 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
I have seen references to multiple "armatures". these are apparently multiple drive magnets attached to a single drive cone. One is attatched to the center of the drive cone and the other affects the outer edge.

While it looks clever and complicated I am not at all convinced it actually does anything. It is possible this system may in fact actually improve sound, but I am having a great deal of trouble actually finding any numbers, which does not bode well.

If it did anything concrete The drive cone would need to stretch to accommodate the different vibrations. Stretching is not a good thing in speakers.

In times of old speaker cones in earbud headphones were made of mylar. This material would eventually stretch out from the vibration, making the headphones last for about 3 weeks of heavy use before their sound quality degraded significantly. At that time if you wanted good sound it was better to buy a pile of bargain bin headphones and assume they were each good for a month than buy some high end ones since in three weeks they would be sounding worse than some brand new cheapos.

This was a long time ago and I understand things have changed. Ductile metal cones may help with the stretching issue for instance.

I'll believe it when and only when I see the research though. The BS level is just too high in this industry to trust anything until empirical testing is done.]]>Oct 16th 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
Thats funny because my friend is a EE there. I guess he gets paid to sit around.]]>Oct 16th 2007 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 18th 2007 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
Why would anyone chose these over a pair of Shures? Not being sarcastic...serious question....is there a compelling reason?]]>Oct 16th 2007 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Oct 16th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
http://www.earphonesolutions.com/beeaforip.html]]>Oct 16th 2007 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/

never heard of you, probably never will. No one cares about your equipment, regardless of how cheap, or shitty it is.

Skull Candy....they sell that shit at toysRus]]>Oct 16th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/It might also show how trained his ear is. People who spend a lot of time using a particular sense day in and day out often developed increased sensitivity. Chefs and wine makers are good examples of this. It is possible that the guy may do enough of this to have refined his ear somewhat. Your statement does imply that he may be more of a hobbyist though in which case his ear may not be significantly developed and his opinion may have less weight than it might.

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P.S. Sorry, No offense. It just amused me too much not to say. ]]>Oct 16th 2007 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
I'm happy with my LiveWires.

The best canal phones are LiveWires, and Future Sonics. Nothing else compares to them.]]>Oct 16th 2007 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
I take it, you DJ for free, like a garage band DJ or something. I understand the difference between talent, skill, and good equipment. Clearly the music is horrible so maybe you can make it sound a little bit better with some better gear. Banging on a toy drum isn't better than a real drum set, regardless of how good you are. Or in this case, how bad you are.

word to ya motha]]>Oct 16th 2007 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
ouch! that's hurt.

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UE, in fact, had all their products made by another company for a long time. That company is called Westone, and they also make hearing aids. They introduced a "triple driver" canalphone a few months ago, and it is simply wonderful.

I've not heard the M-Audio, but I've heard quite a few canalphones (including the UE's the M-Audio is modeled on), and the Westone UM3 is both the best sounding and by far the most comfortable. If you are seriously considering spending $500 on canalphones, please also consider these.

As always, if you even the most passing interest in headphones, http://www.head-fi.org is the place to be. ]]>Oct 16th 2007 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
Plus, I've been gone for a few months, but last I checked there was nothing "semi-decent" about a $500 HDTV. That's the bottom of the barrel for HDTVs. Come on, Leon. You owe yourself more than this. Treat yourself to something nice, not just whatever's on the bottom shelf at Circuit City.]]>Oct 16th 2007 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
As someone else mentioned, "dual bore" refers to two bores or channels leading from each earpiece into the user's ear. This is patented by UE and does make a difference in the sound.]]>Oct 17th 2007 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/Nov 18th 2007 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/m-audio-offers-up-triple-driver-ie-40-earbuds/
Setting the record straight - IE-40's are 399.99 street price (check your local Guitar Center), 499.99 is MSRP. They are a collab with UE - and the technology is the same as their Triple.fi 10 Pro.

M-Audio DOES design their own product, and the EE's are hardly just repair tech's.

Making up facts makes you a liar. Resist the temptation.]]>Jan 10th 2008 6:40PM