Ultimate Ears 700 noise-isolating earphones for your iPod, not Apple's
By Thomas Ricker 
posted April 14th 2009 6:28AM
posted April 14th 2009 6:28AM
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Engadget,
Logitech does NOT go out of their way (certainly not on their website) to advertise "for your ipod", so why do you?
http://www.ultimateears.com/_ultimateears/store/products/ultimateears700.php
Why feel so compelled to add the superfluous plug for Apple?
You almost disingenuously make it seem as if these are proprietary in some way, as if they are made specifically for ipods, whereas Logitech themselves only mention at the very bottom of the page that it plays well with others, basically anything that sports a 3.5 mm jack.
Seriously, this is too much...
For engadget, earphones can only be used with Apple products. Hence the shameless plug...
Since it's too hard for you to hit the read link or click the image used, the press release states in the *headline* meant to capture the attention of editors reading newsfeeds:
"Ultimate Ears Creates Pro-Quality Audio Experience for Your iPod"
It's not for your iPod, it's for your portable audio player.
Thomas
Can't really blame Engadget for this one...the press release is a mess. From separating the iPod from "other" mp3 players to the completely random and superfluous picture of Holly Robinson Peete...I have no clue what the point is.
When you say portable player, the term is synonymous with Apple's iPod since it is the #1 portable player.
Steve Young FTW WTF
As stupid as it is, there are people who think that think that any DAP, Apple or not, is an iPod.
Let's all get uppity about it, because it matters!
Thomas,
Why insist on pointing out a PR release for ONE very specific line of products when instead you could have just linked to the OFFICIAL and more GENERAL product release page, as I pointed out above:
http://www.ultimateears.com/_ultimateears/store/products/ultimateears700.php
Don't bother respond to that rhetorical question, it's obvious -- you couldn't have shamelessly plugged Apple's iPod if that were the case.
Simmer down, son. There was no product page at the moment that the press release came out. And if you read this post as a shameless plug for Apple then you must be of the opinion that "proprietary" is a compliment... which is odd, but not as odd as the vitriol you spew. But don't let facts get in the way of your opinion of me or Engadget.
Thomas
@ ilh
You make a good point. We ask for Band-Aids when we want an adhesive bandage, and we ask for Jello when we want a gelatin dessert... The popularity of the iPod has led to it becoming a generic reference.
Submitted from a PC, err, my E-Machines PC-compatible microcomputer.
Can't afford an iPod huh?
Screw apple, let's all complain about how much Fall Out Boy sucks instead.
I agree, this is discriminating, monopolistic and just pure misinformating to readers.
Apple got it the hard way.
Considering the "innovative", unreadable Flash menu, the fact that they call one of their in-ear headphones "handcrafted personal monitors" (/facepalm), and the silly prices, I would say that's a site made by asshats, for asshats. Which, incidentally, explains why they're confused about that "every iPod is an mp3 player, but not every mp3 player is an iPod" thing.
Ultimate Ears makes excellent IEMs, or at least they have in the past.
The "handcrafted" monitors are exactly that. You get impressions made by an audiologist and they custom fit an IEM to your exact eardrum. They're actually some of the best earphones you can buy.
Calm down.
yeah Ultimate Ears are great. Stick to your earbuds asshole.
Earbuds as studio monitors? Blasphemy.
I wonder actually for an iPod if these superior(?) earphones can make the difference since the hardware behind the line-out is still crappy. If you are willing to spend so much on a set of earphones for sure you would go for eitherway a Cowon or a Sony instead of an iPod.
Further I also wonder weather the quality of Logitech is actually that high-end to justify this price in general, for this money there are plenty of others who deliver proven quality.
And people say Apple's dual driver in-ears are expensive...
10Hz to 16.5kHz O.o uhhhhhh.....doesn't EVERY other hi-fi headphone have full fidelity with a freq range of 10Hz to 20 or 21kHz? you know the range of human hearing? 16.5kHz isn't a very high fidelity in my book....Also the iPod plug is stupid
Frequency ranges for headphones mean almost nothing, manufacturers of $50 that boast a full frequency response neglect mention of tolerance or other factors. Besides, what exactly are you listening to that requires more than 16.5 kHz? Hardly any musical instruments produce frequencies about 5 kHz.
http://www.listenhear.co.uk/general_acoustics.htm
overtones and harmonics often hit around 20kHz. C6 is in the 15-16kHz so even thats pushing it...you don't hear C7s often, but on these headphones you never would because the majority of that note is in the 18kHz range I guess if your listening to blatty electro or rock it wouldn't matter, but Freq Response does have an impact in playback. While the 50 dollar headphones that play 21kHz is a crock. a >200 dollar pair of headphones should play up to 20kHz IMHO
ultimate ears has gone off a cliff since they were bought out by logitech. while i love my super.fi 5 pros when they are working, the new customer service set up by logitech sucks!
they were supposed to send me new cables three weeks ago, and they don't even return my emails at this point.
It used to be I would email them for service, they would email me back within day with all the RMA info and everything I could possibly need. since being bought out, I can now only call them at a stupid logitech number, which in my case didn't even work.
This is not how you treat customers that spend 250 dollars on headphones.
Haha, you accidentally said $230.
Right?!??
Sadly no. Just look at other in ear headphones, $299, $399, $499. If you want great audio quality you've got to pay more than $20 for the Marshmallows. Of course if you're going to be using that high of quality headphones one would wonder why you would be using it with an iPod and their notoriously low quality D/A converters.
I think I would rather win this then anything else they have posted. So here's to hopefully winning.
Do want.
I wouldn't spend that much into a earphone for an ipod. The quality is just not as good as competitors like Sony and Samsung.
I used the first generation ipod mini and switched to samsung and stayed with the brand for 3 seperate mp3 players. I still keep all 3 Samsung mp3 player, but i dumped my ipod mini.
Before the ipod mini, I used a sony walkman minidisc. is expecting to buy a Sony for my next mp3.
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