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The editors liked
Excellent sound quality
Have your ears been good? Then treat them to some of the best Bluetooth sound around. The ety8s have a full-bandwidth chipset that pours sonic honey into your ears for up to eight hours on a single charge. An iPod Bluetooth adapter (included) guarantees C...
Decent performance with an iPod
External audio controls
Wireless Bluetooth operation
Excellent sound
Tight seal effectively blocks out external sound
Headphones ship with a nice carrying case
The editors didn't like
The earphones look daft
These bizarre-looking earphones don’t so much whisper "Mug me" as shout it from the rooftops… in Dolby stereo. Not everyone enjoys the sensation of squeezing earphones right inside their ear canals for a fit as snug as Russell Brand’s p...
Expensive
Not particularly stylish
Degraded performance with most other Bluetooth devices
Published: 2007-08-27, Author: Mike , review by: techcrunch.com
Abstract: If you can get over the price, the hideous design, and their inability to be used as a Bluetooth headset, the ety8 represents a major advance in wireless headphones. But until they can cram all that technology into a smaller earphone housing that doesn’...
Etymotic Research has produced the only set of wireless earphones that I would be willing to use. The sound quality is better than I ever imagined it would be, even with a name like Etymotic on the box, and the remote control of the player/phone is also v...
I want nothing more than to give the ety8s four stars. However, there are a few undeniable drawbacks: the random dropouts, the slight weight on your ears, the lack of subtle highs and lows (when compared to the ER4Ps), and pressure from using the butt...
Abstract: I love listening to my 2nd generation Apple iPod Nano, but the earbud cables always seem to get in my way. So far Ive only had the opportunity to review one wireless headphone solution for the iPod: Bluetakes i-PHONO mini BT450Tx. Unfortunately, I...
Abstract: Thanks to Apple’s ubiquitous advertising, you can walk around town with wires hanging out of your ears without getting strange looks from passersby. Etymotic Research’s ety8 Bluetooth earphones shorten the wires, but these anything-but-discreet earbuds...
