Customer Rating:  
Summary: Great sound, kooky design
Comment: I found these when I was looking around for a new pair of in-ear headphones (my Sony Fontopia's cable broke - again). I was also looking out for a cellphone headset, and so I saw this and decided it had to be good. Now that I've got it, I can say that it *is* good - in some respects. The sound quality is everything Shure is cracked up to be - clean, clear, and crisp. The downside comes in the integration of the two functions - the two leads (to MP3 player and cellphone) are inequal in length for some reason, and the junction/switch box between them is pretty huge - it also contains a nigh-useless volume control, which despite being a dial, seems to have only two settings - regular, and extremely quiet.
In any case, they work for my needs - but if you're planning to jog with them, or keep your MP3 player more than about 8 inches from your phone, you're out of luck. Remember, if a combo device costs *less* than either one of its components, something's probably wrong.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not what I was hoping for...
Comment: These were alright headphones but they didn't work for me at all. I just got a Helio Hero which is a phone and a mp3 player so i wanted a nice pair of headphones that would also act as a headset. But the headset jack was only mono and I didn't like the idea of swithching back and forth between jacks, plus i didn't really like that there were two jacks so that one was always dangling and I didn't like the big ol' honking remote in the middle. These simply weren't designed with my purposes in mind. The other model, the ones designed for the Treo, was closer to what I wanted but those didn't work with my phone.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Flawed Design
Comment: I have a pair of the Shure E2C earphones and I love them. I figured that a pair of those that I could also use as a headset for my cell phone would be great... Having the audio from my cell phone going to both ears would be really nice... But these things were a serious disappointment
I'm sending these back to Amazon for the following reasons:
1. The Switch box is huge!! No wonder they never show a picture of it in the product description.
2. The volume control is basically useless. At full volume it is fine. The slightest little change on the volume control results in audio so low you can barely hear. Might as well be a switch instead of a variable control. And the volume control knob sticks out so far from the switch box that it is easily bumped. Forget about trying to put the switch box in your pocket, as that will surely bump the volume control.
3. Assuming that you have you phone and your music player in your pocket or clipped to you belt, along with the gigantic switch box, the cables from the switch box to those devices are way too long. This means that you have to either have cables hanging, or bundle them up. Both options stink.
4. The microphone is on the cable that goes to the left ear piece rather than being at the junction of the two earphone cables.
5. The mute button must be held for the mute to work. This is a major pain for people like me that use a headset for calling in to conference calls where you want to have the mute on unless you are actually speaking.
If Shure made this with a SMALL switch box, like maybe the size of a pen cap, put the microphone on the hunk of plastic where the earphone cables split off, had a mute switch instead of a mute button, a volume control that actually worked, and made the cables to the phone/audio device shorter, this would be great. I can't imagine anyone using this thing with the several feet of wires and gigantic switch box... A nice idea, but a seriously flawed design.
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