So, how much would you pay for good headphones? In fact, scratch that: how much are you willing to stump up for astoundingly good noise-cancelling headphones that offer real comfort and quite brilliant sound quality?
Shure anticipates the answer lies around the $400 mark, as that’s the asking price for this SE420 set. They’re not the most affordable in the Shure range – the spectacular Shure SE210 and the Shure SE310s can be had for a reasonable amount less – but they do come up trumps where performance is concerned. They also put all but one or two similar products securely in the shade.
Shure’s features lies in the in-ear units deployed by on-stage musicians, and the foremost thing that took us was the comfort of the SE420s when inserted into our lug-holes. We’ve used such in-ear devices before and had to stop after half an hour due to discomfort. Yet we effortlessly got past three hours and counting in one session with the Shure SE420s and still weren’t exceptionally disturbed.
We discovered that the modular cable system that Shure employs doesn’t offer quite the same level of comfort, despite that it still wasn’t really an issue and it does open up a couple of extra connection selections.
But, it’s the audio that matters, and it’s in audio reproduction that these earphones really score. We tested the SE420s primarily with non-compressed music, involving a mixture of classical, rock and subtle jazz, and were genuinely taken aback by the sound quality.
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