Comments on: Review: Shure SE530PTH Earphones

By: Mark Matheson

Mark Matheson — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:23:51 +0000

I just got these in the mail yesterday and I am astounded. Sure they are expensive but if you look at online auction sites you can get them for about half the MSRP, here in Canada they retail for 599 without the PTH!
To correct the review the tripe true acoustic speakers actually have one tweeter and two woofers in each earpiece and they sound out of this world. I had the sure se310 before and they sounded so good that I just had to get the flagship phones to hear how much better it could get and trust me I have no buyers remorse over this one. Another nice point is that they come with a 2 year warranty that is flawless, any defects (wire sleeve cracking,nozzle breaking,loss of signal) and shure will replace or repair free of charge.
Why spend 300 dollars on an MP3 player and then listen to it on horrible headphones? get these your ears will love you for it !

By: Darrell

Darrell — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:11:54 +0000

I have a set of these as well as a set of E5c’s and a set of custom single driver Challengers. I am a studio jazz musician and love the sound canvas these triple drivers provide inside and outside a recording environment. It has to be said that if you are looking at the price of a set of studio quality monitors like these and the E5c’s then they are not what your looking for.

By: melvynadam

melvynadam — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:05:14 +0000

Nice looking buds but I’ve lost and damaged too many headphones in travel to even consider spending more than the cost of a budget desktop PC on a set.
How many people out there reading JAMM have audio fidelity requirements this high and the financial means to consider this?

By: dgoldring

dgoldring — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:36:05 +0000

Oh yeah. I totally agree. I said in the review that $500 is not consumer friendly. These are really for people in the music industry. I compared them with my V-Moda Vibe, which are the best I had found so far. The comfort and sound (once I figure them out) was considerably better in the Shure. The tweeter made a huge difference. But, and this is the big but…were they $400 better? So, yeah, I agree. While these are far superior to anything I have tried. There is no way I could ever justify the price.

Doug

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:51:25 +0000

$500 for a pair of earbud headphones??!!!

No offense my friend but you’re crazy. I’m all for sound quality, but let’s be realistic. Those headphones cost more than that Sansa and that 6800 combined. For that kind of price they need to do a lot more than just play music (which they can’t do with a music player…)

Ok .. enough bashing. I’m over the initial sticker shock. They look incredibly cool, and I’m sure they can jamm (no pun intended) … my question is how do they compare to the untrained ear to something like the Shure e2c which rings in at about $400 less?