Well… it was inevitable… My beloved old ratty pair Radio Shack of headphones finally died.

I slipped them onto my head at work and the left earphone snapped off in my hand…

no fixing that…

well.. I suppose I could have fixed it with some epoxy – but there does come a point when it’s alright to retire things and get something new….. ….. ….. …. ….. I guess….. *pout*.

Their replacements were waiting for me when I got home in a UPS box from a company called Shure.

They’re allegedly the makers of some of the best headphones in the biz…. Shure they’re expensive…. Which is why I never got a pair… (their best model runs around three hundred bucks I think)…

Bah-ha! But they recently released a budget pair… still a little steep… But considering the last time I bought a set of headphones was 15 years ago, I said shure! Why not!?

They’re probably the best sounding earbuds I’ve ever stuck in my ears… comfortable… and they’re way more portable than the old shedding foam monsters…

They just don’t have the base boom-boom of big headphones – but they’re very “accurate” sounding. (*is that a correct audio guy description?).

The only drawback I can tell about them so far is also a benefit: Sound Isolation.

Once you get them dug into your ear – you can’t hear squat other than the music you’re listening too.

GREAT for sitting in the Grand Central Station / Communal Space / as quiet and conetmplative an environment as a market square in Calcutta / referred to as my “office”. (I’m saving my rant about the drawbacks to the whole “Open Office Environment” concept later).

BAD if you were doing something like riding a bicycle in traffic.

I shure could use a new gimmick to close journal entries.