Griffin TuneBuds
Formerly known as EarThumps, Griffin’s ear buds are the most comfortable, best-sounding I’ve ever used. I was lucky enough to get a free pair at my office a few months ago, and I’ve been amazed at how much better they sound than the earbuds I’d been using (not to mention being about a bazillion times better than the buds that came with my iPod).
If you listen to a media player very often, I highly recommend these. The difference in both sound quality and comfort is really noticeable.
Link: Griffin TuneBuds (still referred to as EarThumps) at Amazon
Ballpark price: $30 at Griffin, on sale at Amazon for $17.
Posted: April 2nd, 2007 under Electronics, Music, Personally recommended by Linda.
Comments: 8
Comments
Comment from Amy
Time: April 2, 2007, 7:15 pm
I like the idea of them, but I must have weirdo ears because I have yet to find any kind of ear buds that fit my ear canals comfortably. I have resigned myself to various headset earphones.
Comment from Jenny
Time: April 3, 2007, 5:36 am
I’m looking for something to use while running (since my trusty 15-year old bright yellow Sony headset finally crapped out not too long ago). I am having a hard time finding some comfy ear buds that won’t just fall right out of my ears and a brisk jog. My ears can’t be *that* strangely shaped, but maybe they are. So my question is — have you tried exercising with them?
Comment from Linda
Time: April 3, 2007, 7:59 am
Jenny: in the same of SCIENCE I just put the earbuds in and did some flailing around. The buds stay in nicely but the bouncing cord seems to want to pull them out. If you could secure the cord so it didn’t just dangle down your chest, I think these would work.
Comment from orangepeacock
Time: April 3, 2007, 12:52 pm
Ooh! Ooh! I got this pair of ridiculously cheap earbuds in a computer store that had a clip attached to the cord, near the buds. You just clip it onto your shirt (assuming you are wearing one, and not bouncing free in the wind), and it eliminates the tug from the weight of the cord that makes the buds fall out. But don’t flail your head around a lot while doing this - then they get forcibly yanked out, and that hurts.
Not that I’ve done this while on an elliptical in a packed gym, or anything…
Comment from Jenny
Time: April 4, 2007, 5:39 am
Sweet — well, the price is certainly right and even though I’ve tried to be stoic and run without music, that doesn’t work at all. My head supplies its own soundtrack of “this sucks, this sucks, ow, this sucks.”
I’m in! Yay, SundryBuzz!
Comment from Nicole
Time: April 6, 2007, 7:20 am
Heh. We have major transit line construction going on on the corner right outside our office (it’ll end in 2009 to never) - and the jackhammers were killing me. So I loaded up the ipod and slapped in on whenever they started up.
I’m still using the earbuds that came with the ipod and I find I have to turn the volume way up to drown out the jackhammers (and really? this is Nickleback, Finger 11, AC/DC, etc we’re talking about) and they hurt my ears after a bit (in other words, they’re not healthy for 7 hours a day).
Oh and I can’t always hear my phone ring :>
So thanks for this. I’ve been looking at the Griffin earthumps and wondering if they were worth the money. I’ll pick up a pair at London Drugs today.
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Time: April 29, 2007, 7:14 pm
[…] Also, I recently bought new headphones for my iPod. They were recommended by Sundry, and, well, I do everything The Internet tells me to. I must have defective ears, or perhaps these weren’t designed with running in mind, because less than three minutes into my run, I gave up. Constantly sticking them back in my ears just to have them fall out again two steps later was not working for me. So I ran the damn five miles with no entertainment except what my brain could come up with. I thought about lots of things for this here blog, about 6% of which will ever actually be written and posted, had some running commentary/psychoanalysis going on about something else, and, in the final coup de grace of randomness — around mile 4 — my brain decided to sing My Sharona. A song whose lyrics I know fewer than half of, and which I have not owned, and perhaps haven’t heard, since Napster was my music download source of choice. So long ago that downloading music from Napster was still legal. […]
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