Shure SE110 Sound Isolating Earphones Review

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The Shure SE110 Sound Isolating Earphones are strong, beautiful, and amazing for the typical person who has a gear budget and is looking for those "perfect" headphones or earphones to take them beyond the sonic level of experience that the cheapo stock phones that came with their portable player can deliver to them. The Shure SE110 Sound Isolating Earphones are easily among the very best values you're going to find in earphones or headphones for less than $100.

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The Shure SE110 Sound Isolating Earphones–which, like the Ford Model T, give you any choice of color as long as it's black–are sound isolating, not "sound cancelling". This is an important technical distinction. These phones don't use any overtones to try to "cancel out" outside noises that creep into your ears when you want to hear nothing but the sounds. There are not batteries required. The structure, material, and layering of the inside of the earphone literally isolate your eardrum from the noise of the outside world–while feeding you nothing but the song you're singing along with. These phones are in-ear/buds, and use binaural and balanced armature engineering technology to deliver you sweet stereo sound with clarity.

The Shure SE110 Sound Isolating Earphones also come with a nice carrying case and a 3-foot-long detachable cable extender so you can put the source of the sounds in a variety of areas on your person. Shure has long since understood that a very weak link in consumer-earphone relationships has been the connecting cable. Seems simple–and that's always been part of the problem. Manufacturers and engineers have largely ignored the connecting cable on earphones and headphones that don't cost at least a few hundred bucks because their thinking has been that nobody unwilling to buy top of the line phones cares about the cable, and it's an area where they can save money.

Ha! How wrong they are. If there's not a very good connection between the source and the sound, the phones are rendered inferior or useless. And, most of the time these connections can't be repaired–when they break from use, you are forced to buy a whole new set of phones. Shure has plenty of experience in making high quality equipment for musicians out on the road in all kinds of weather, and applies that wisdom to making consumer audio equipment as well. The SE110's come with strong connecting cables which include a convenient, flexible design.

There's another thing that Shure packs into the Shure SE110 Sound Isolating Earphones: its proprietary "Fit Kit". Yes, another weakness in standard "inexpensive" phones has been the way the damned things fit into your ear in the first place. Shure enables you to make yourself comfy and actually proves it has the imagination to see that people have different-sized ears! Different sizes and shapes of earphone fittings made from foam and rubber come included with your purchase.

The downside of the Shure SE110 Sound Isolating Earphones is very simply that they aren't Shure's very best. There is some loss of definition in the bass range (which, it must be said, is very powerful through these phones), and the highs aren't quite as crisp and clean as you'll get in Shure phones that cost at least twice as much. But, then again, for those on the budget, they'll be very hard-pressed to find better audio or durability quality than these.

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