Digital Home Thoughts: Shure e4c Sound Isolating Earphones

"With player capacity increasing regularly, relatively poor quality 128kbps MP3s are quickly being replaced by higher bit-rate files and more often superior formats such as AAC and OGG Vorbis. With near-CD equivalent quality at your finger tips, it's an audio crime that so many people are using headphones that aren’t even worthy to hang washing on. Sound quality is only as good as the weakest link in the chain and if you’ve spent good money on a portable media player it makes sense to ensure that your headphones do it justice. With this is mind, we decided to take a look at the Shure E4c sound isolation headphones. Shure is better known for its range of microphones – most notably the SM57 and 58 series, which are pretty much the de-facto standard for instrument and vocal recording around the world. With an obviously excellent understanding of speaker technologies, one would expect it to be able to make a decent set of headphones."



Getting a good set of headphones is always a must-do step if you want to really hear your music. According to the reviewer, these headphones have fantastic high-end response but are severely lacking when it comes to bottom end, though things improve somewhat if you use the foam buds. Overall, they don't seem like winning headphones. I've been quite happy with my Shure E2C headphones, so the results of this review were a little surprising.