{"id":229,"date":"2007-01-08T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T01:34:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:31","slug":"earbud-impotence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/01\/earbud-impotence","title":{"rendered":"Earbud Impotence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/etymotics.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" alt=\"\" class=\"rightinline\" \/>So I ordered a pair of highly, highly, highly regarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymotic.com\/ephp\/er6i.aspx\">Etymotic ER-6i earbuds<\/a> the other day and I have to say, they have about as much bass as the iPod Nano&#8217;s built in speaker.  I don&#8217;t get it&#8230; all over the web, people rave about these things.  iLounge, a community of smart iPod fanatics, has <a href=\"http:\/\/ilounge.pricegrabber.com\/rating_getprodrev.php\/masterid=7481911\/id_type=masterid\">17 independent reviews<\/a> and almost every single one gives the Etymotics five stars.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that makes me suspicious is that many of the reviews &#8212; as well as the instruction manual &#8212; stress the importance of stuffing these things as far into your ear canals as possible.  Well I&#8217;ve done that, and with all four supplied earpieces.  Still nothing.  Any further pushing and I&#8217;m going to puncture an eardrum.<\/p>\n<p>So my question is, has anyone else had problems with the fit of high-end isolator earbuds?  I&#8217;m thinking that some ears are probably just incompatible with them entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I ordered a pair of highly, highly, highly regarded Etymotic ER-6i earbuds the other day and I have to say, they have about as much bass as the iPod Nano&#8217;s built in speaker. I don&#8217;t get it&#8230; all over the web, people rave about these things. iLounge, a community of smart iPod fanatics, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}