MEE audio M6 Sport Wired Earbuds, Noise Isolating In Ear Headphones, Sweatproof Earphones for Running/Gym/Workouts with Dynamic Enhanced Bass Sound, Memory Wire Earhooks, 3.5mm Jack Plug (Clear)

Great clear sound and doesn't show much on camera as other in-ear monitors.

MEElectronics M6-CL Sport Sound-Isolating In-Ear Headphones for iPod, iPhone, MP3/CD/DVD Players - ClearI'll keep my review direct and relative to my experience.Looks and Built:The looks of the M6 immediately caught my eye when I first saw them on here, and impressed me even more in person. The cable is more robust than any earphone I've ever purchased. The plastic that they used seems to be top-quality; you don't usually expect quality like this on low-costing earphones. Furthermore, the clear housing and cable is also extremely attractive and give a bit of a premium look to it. I would also like to add that these earphones came in a small plastic rectangular box which also included: a hard-case, instructions, and multiple tips, which were all useful and a great compliment to the overall package.Comfort & Fit:I admit, I was a bit intimidated by the shape of the housing(these were my first over-ear earphones). So I made sure I carefully read instructions and then, surprisingly enough, had a fairly easy time getting a secure fit. But, it did took a bit twisting-testing to find a good and even sound. After the fitting, I kept them on for the next two hours to test the comfort. For the first thirty-minutes, I felt a slight itch in my ears(used the triple "flanges" tips) but, after taking it off and than refitting them, I experienced no other issues with the comfort. In fact, there was a few times where I completely forgot they were even on.SoundComing from various entry-level earphones ranging from ten dollars to around thirty dollars, I expected these to be on their level as far as sound; and honestly, they were, at first. These sounded a bit generic in my initial listen. But then, I decided to listen with more effort and completely envelope my eardrums with no distractions, so I closed my eyes and turned them up a little bit more. As seconds ticked away, I began to distinguish the differences between these and the multiple store bought earphones I've tried before. The vocals were extremely present, the instruments played pleasantly in the background(still crisp and clear) but, not to distant, and the bass was full of impact but not too boastful and prominent over the other sounds. I was in 'awe' the whole time and found myself in a position I've never been before with earphones, utterly immersed in music. From Sara Bareilles to Nas, these earphones took every genre I had in my collection and spewed out gold to my eardrums. I am thoroughly pleased at the sound from these earphones and it exceeded my every expectation. The only blemish that I can even conceive, which may steer a person away from these earphones, is a sense of distance from certain instruments that is played in the background. If you want something with everything upfront, than these earphones might not be for you.All in all, I am satisfied with my purchase. Personally, for me, I consider these earphones a huge step towards the right direction in the world of quality earphones and headphones. I will no longer buy from various electronic stores blindly and waste money on random "bass boost" earphones. My experience with these, first and foremost, taught me, with a little research and an open-mind for something different, you can find gold from where you least expect it.....and also to not judge books by there covers, I had no idea a company with the name MeElectronics would be an excellent earphone company.

After the left channel of my Bose in-ear earphones finally conked out, I decided to get some new earphones.The old Bose earphones had a lot going for them, especially their fantastic sound quality. Uto Ughi's rendition of the Ciacccona from JS Bach's Violin Partita No. 2 never sounded better than it did coming out of the old Bose phones. But they were never designed for noise isolation, and my daily commutes on the NYC subways confirmed this. On the newer and quieter trains, the Bose phones were tolerable but ultimately unsatisfactory because of their lack of noise isolation. On the older and louder trains, they were utterly unusable even at the highest music volumes. Therefore, I decided that my next earphones had to be ones with noise cancelling function.Since the new version of Bose in-ear phones cost about $90 here, I decided to make that my maximum price point. The Audio Technica ATH-ANC23 looked promising: it was a compact earphone design, and it had active noise cancelling, and it cost only about $50. But the build quality issues of the Audio Technicas worried me. I didn't feel like paying $50 for earphones and having them fall apart on me a couple of months later, so I crossed them off my list.The Etymotic Research MC5 intrigued me. It first introduced me to the concept of "noise isolation", or passive noise cancelling, and that this could be as effective as active noise cancelling in some situations. Now I didn't have to pay a premium for active noise cancelling earphones, and I also didn't have to settle for cheap and of dubious quality ones either. The pros for these earphones looked good: they seemed durable and well-made, their sound quality was described as fantastic for classical music, and their sound isolation seemed to be excellent. I was very close to buying it, but one of the reviewers described its pop music sound as mediocre and unexciting. That and its somewhat steep price of $60 stopped me from going for the Eymotic Research phones.I finally settled on the MEElectronics M6 earphones because it seemed to give me the all-around performance I needed at a decent price. I didn't know what to expect from this company that I had never heard of. But they did put in enough effort into designing a flashy and informative product description, and the build quality of the phones appeared to be more than acceptable. And because they were only $20, I decided to take the plunge and buy these earphones.After receiving them a few days later, I tried out all of the ear tips that were included in the package. Luckily for me, the large triple flange tips fit perfectly into my rather large ears and provided a good sound seal (none of the other tips fit satisfactorily into my ears at all). With the triple flange tips in, the ambient noise around my house and from outside was cut out almost completely. Very nice so far. The sound quality was decent at first, but clearly not in the league of my Bose phones. But then again, what do you really expect out of $20 earphones?Then came the true test: listening to my iPod on a NYC subway. I was hoping for a drastic improvement in background noise reduction over my old Bose phones, but I didn't expect this. Before, I had to turn up the volume to deafening levels to listen to podcasts through my old Bose phones. And even then, I still had to strain to hear them clearly, and was usually unsuccessful. But now, I was able to cut the volume down to about half of those deafening levels and hear my podcasts clearly and without straining my listening capabilities. The noise isolation function worked far better than expected, and I was giddy.I also didn't expect the M6's sound quality to be as good as it is. It do a very good job of making pop music sound exciting and danceable (my sample here is New Order's "True Faith"). But I was surprised at how well the M6 performed in producing a crisp full-ranged sound for jazz music (my sample here is Miles Davis' "Round About Midnight" album). That said, the M6 will never be as good as the Bose phones were in producing a sublime sound for Bach or other classical music.There are other cons besides the less-than-stellar classical music sound. In the beginning, the stiff cord does produce a lot of noise whenever it brushes against your shirt or pants. While good for hooking around your ears, the curved memory-wire design will also hook itself around the cord in frustrating patterns if you don't store your earphones away properly (by that, I mean properly bundled up in a circle and stored inside the included carrying case). It's only been about 2.5 months since I owned the M6, and I have already lost one of the triple flange tips. This is because the tips are rather loosely connected to the actual earphones through a slippery cylindrical surface. So unless you're very careful with your earphones, you will easily lose one or both ear tips as they slip off. This will definitely happen if you're untangling the M6 phones because the memory-wires have hooked themselves onto just about every other part of the cord. It's as if MEElectronics purposely designed the earphones this way to force you to buy extra ear tip sets. If so, it worked in my case after I ordered 6 new triple flange tip sets for $10.50, or about half of what the new M6 cost me.And finally, although I raved about the sound isolation above, there are definitely limits to how well it works. First off, you need a very good seal for optimal sound isolation. That means you better clean out your ears and get rid of all that excess earwax. And excessively loud background noise will simply overwhelm the sound isolation no matter how good the seal is. That's when you learn that noise-isolation does not not work quite as well as true active noise-cancelling earphones in noisier environments.That said, I still have not tried these earphones out on an airplane, so I cannot comment about how well the M6 will perform there. But for my purposes, good noise-isolation beats out little or no noise isolation any day. Therefore, I prefer the reasonably-priced M6 over the mighty Bose in-ear earphones.