If you know me you will find out I am somewhat of an audiophile. That means I am one of those guys where sound quality is a must. Having listened to compressed, uncompressed, to loseless formats during my times as a wannabe producer/musician there is a big difference not only the format and quality of the sounds but also a great deal in heaphones.

Ive got at least 15 different heaphones ranging from MP3 usage, Studio Work, Gaming, to through away pairs. Ranging from different brands from Yamaha, Logitech, Plantronics, Shure, Bose, Sony, Microsoft, JVC, Skullycandy, and even those $.02 cent ones that come with your iPod.

Right now I have exhausted the usage from my main squeeze, Shure E2C's. I truely love these heaphone's and hate having to consider buying a new one. But I think the time is right to really go for it.

Right now I am considering Shure's SE line. For comparison the Shure E2C's are the older brother of Shures SE110 line which retails for $99. However, I think I am just gonna really gun-ho it and go up the chain a bit with the Shure SE530 which has a retail price of $499.

If not I would settle for a little lower brother the Shure SE310 with a mrsp @ $299


However it was brought to my attention a few weeks ago of a Dr. Dre x Monster collaboration headphone. Its called Beats by Dr Dre released July 2008. Ive have personally talked with people who have used the pair and I have been persuaded to consider the phones. It has a mrsp of $349 however the traditional headphone style would normally not intrigue me for everday portable music player (PmP) usage but we just got this in today at BBY and I am so tempted!


Now your thinking. Are you crazy? Why spend that much on either headphone. Again I am audiophile and it matters to me! If you reading this and asking yourself whats a lower priced quality headphones. Well heres one to consider there is also a killer deal by Tritton on there TRI-XB100 headphones. The pair has a MSRP for $49 but Newegg.com has them for $18 shipped. So if you too are considering headphones but dont want to dish out the type of money I am considering really check them out.