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Video Shows Completely Redesigned Headphones for iPhone 5

Interesting, but no thank you!
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I have the Klipsch Image S4i and that is a VASTLY superior headphone with great sound quality, really good ear fit (especially when I switched to Comply foam Tx-100 ear tips), and excellent efficiency (I can get good volume without cranking the volume level way up). Cheap they're not, but it's definitely worth the investment. :)
 
At this point, Apple shouldn't even bother with their September 12th event. They will have nothing new to announce! LOL
 
How cool would it be to have magic earbuds? No in-line controls, but full touch for up / down volume on the right and tap to answer / end calls on the left. Would explain why the mics on the earbud itself I guess..
 
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I'm not 100% sure but I could have sworn I saw an Apple patent for something just like this. I believe it was for a unibody earbuds since that's their current trend anyway. Oh well, I guess we will all find out in a few days.
 
Steve56k said:
How cool would it be to have magic earbuds? No in-line controls, but full touch for up / down volume on the right and tap to answer / end calls on the left. Would explain why the mics on the earbud itself I guess..
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Do you believe in Father Christmas?
 
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Looks to me like the little opening touches the inside of your ear where it rests and is responsible for the bass as the LFE travels through your bone/tissue well and will sound boomy and all the other sounds are ported into your ear canal through the horn piece. It looks to me like two separate drivers or two separate paths for the sound to exit the ear bud.
 
nagromme said:
The original iPod earbuds (like I got with my 60 GB ages ago) are no audiophile dream, but they are the best-sounding I’ve ever had from Apple. Every change since then has fallen short, so I still use those old 'buds when I don’t need a mic and don’t want to lug my folding Sennheisers. So something needs to change.

I hope I never see a horse with head like that....
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Damn right! I mean, a hairdryer, maybe. But a horse!??!
 
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Rend It said:
While I'd love to see Apple reveal something completely unlike the leaked parts, I think the leaks demonstrate how laughable Cook's comment was. Perhaps he should have added the qualification, "Except the iPhone."
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Laughable? No more so than the constant posts here like these that expect that when he said that, it would happen immediately. When he said it, I figured his point was that they were aware of the new leaks already happening as they had been. The point was that they were going to work toward stronger secrecy plans - you don't just pull a switch and all is done. You have to come up with a plan to do so. I think it's unlikely to expect them to revolutionize their secrecy protocols and implement it globally in one turnaround. It was simply an admission that they're not happy with their products leaking - and they didn't plan to just sit around and let it continue to happen without taking action.
 
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speaking of headphones: are there any bluetooth in-ears yet which u simply put in your ears and there's no other crap?

Jason Bourne worse some in Ultimatum :D but i havent seen anything similar, so far all bluetooth headphones i seen come attached with lots of crap

edit: hm now that i actually think about it, they have to charge somehow ^^
 
Well, maybe Apple will finally have headphones that actually stay in properly and don't sound like junk. I doubt it though. I always bought Shure headphones for my iPod and don't need headphones for a phone anyway. So all the white useless little thingies that came with the iPods all went into the trash right away.
 
ScottishCaptain said:
I bet these will be crap, just like their predecessors.

Why?

Because if you have good earphones, you'll quickly learn to recognize how horrendous the quality of music is that you get off the iTunes store. I'm not talking about some audiophile "zomg my headphones increase instrument separation" stuff here, I'm talking about honest to god quality difference that you can blind A/B test and get the same answer every time.

I used to use Apple earphones. I used to believe that Apple somehow knew what they were doing in the audio department (they haven't, since they stopped using quality DACs in their equipment). After I somehow burned out 5 pairs of Apple earphones (never exceeding 50% volume in iOS), I decided that enough was enough and splurged on a pair of Shure SE535s.

Suddenly, all my music is new again- like nothing I've ever heard before. Listening to music is enjoyable, not just something you do to block out ambient noise. Everything is so clear you can close your eyes and just let yourself get submerged in the music, as if you're there in the studio while they're mastering it.

And you quickly learn to recognize which tracks are ripped as lossless (using ALAC or FLAC), and which tracks are downloaded from the internet off the iTunes Store. The CD rips sound fantastic, the downloaded stuff sounds like ass.

With proper earphones, I've actually gone back to going out of my way to buy and rip CDs. I avoid digital downloads because the quality is absolutely horrendous.

But you don't notice this unless you've got good earphones...

Which makes me wonder why Apple would bother producing anything better then their predecessor units. If your headphones suck, then there's no difference between FLAC and MP3/MP4 because the headphone drivers can't reproduce the level of quality for you to notice it. This makes me think that these new headphones will suck on purpose, otherwise people might pick up on the fact that the iTunes store is selling lossy garbage- and that'd make Apple look bad.

-SC
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Yes, the Apple headphones are crap, but you are being unreasonable when you're comparing these headphones to a premium, high-end headphone costing around $450 that is intended for use by audiophiles . It's like comparing Apples with oranges.

Regardless of this, I hope that the new design headphones (which I'm not too keen on) offer a better and noticable quality difference to the current gen headphones.
 
ScottishCaptain said:
I bet these will be crap, just like their predecessors.

[...]

I used to use Apple earphones. I used to believe that Apple somehow knew what they were doing in the audio department (they haven't, since they stopped using quality DACs in their equipment). After I somehow burned out 5 pairs of Apple earphones (never exceeding 50% volume in iOS), I decided that enough was enough and splurged on a pair of Shure SE535s.

Suddenly, all my music is new again- like nothing I've ever heard before. Listening to music is enjoyable, not just something you do to block out ambient noise. Everything is so clear you can close your eyes and just let yourself get submerged in the music, as if you're there in the studio while they're mastering it.

And you quickly learn to recognize which tracks are ripped as lossless (using ALAC or FLAC), and which tracks are downloaded from the internet off the iTunes Store. The CD rips sound fantastic, the downloaded stuff sounds like ass.

With proper earphones, I've actually gone back to going out of my way to buy and rip CDs. I avoid digital downloads because the quality is absolutely horrendous.

But you don't notice this unless you've got good earphones...

-SC
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The Apple earbuds are higher quality than most overpriced Sony/Beats/Bose crap people will usually buy.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but CDs are digital too. There is no discernable audio difference between a CD and a 256kbps AAC/MP3 file, except that most CDs have tremendous amounts of compression, the digital files sometimes don't. This has been debunked so many times it's not even fun to talk about. There is 90% chance you are using an encoder that adds audio artifacts too, while the artist/publisher-provided files use very specific, proven encoding processes. Digital also has the potential to go 24bits/96khz very soon - if you're still preferring CDs by then, you should get your ears checked.

Vynil, on the other hand...
 
arn said:
Calling the 6th iPhone the iPhone 5 is as wrong as calling the 5th iPhone the iPhone 4S.... Which is to say not wrong at all.

The next iPhone will almost certainly be called "iPhone" but it's easier for people to understand iPhone 5 so that's why we call it that from time to time.

arn
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Ha! Even ARN is calling out you losers who keep clamoring about it being called the iPhone 6. :D
 
Ppl that think it will be iPhone 6 are dumb lol if it's not gonna be just the new "iPhone " it's gonna be iPhone 5 but it won't be iPhone 6 lol
 
Let's hope these ones don't break in three weeks. After experiencing the terribleness of Apple ear phones with my iPod Touch, I opted to keeping the headphones that came with my iPhone 4 in the box. They're still in the box totally untouched today.
 
ricardobeat said:
The Apple earbuds are higher quality than most overpriced Sony/Beats/Bose crap people will usually buy.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but CDs are digital too. There is no discernable audio difference between a CD and a 256kbps AAC/MP3 file, except that most CDs have tremendous amounts of compression, the digital files sometimes don't. This has been debunked so many times it's not even fun to talk about. There is 90% chance you are using an encoder that adds audio artifacts too, while the artist/publisher-provided files use very specific, proven encoding processes. Digital also has the potential to go 24bits/96khz very soon - if you're still preferring CDs by then, you should get your ears checked.

Vynil, on the other hand...
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CDs are compressed...? I'm not sure what you're talking about. The digital information on CDs is lossless 16 bit per 44.1 kHz.
If you're talking about dynamic compression, that problem is present on iTunes-files as well.
 
i can see the sleek simple ad campaign now:

"iphone 6 - cuz we named 2-3 and 5-4. names that just work."

these buds look like they go in sideways with a little extra speaker to create a fuller soundfield perhaps?

could they be more comfortable and better sounding? maybe thats what they did with their billions of disposable income!
 
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