Shure SE115 Noise Isolating Earphones Review

I see your point Ed and I certainly won't argue with the differences in sound quality. I trade up on my mp3 player earphones ASAP. (I currently have some humble CX-400's, though I did have CX-95's before that, that I quite liked.)

No my point was that in my experience, there isn't a big enough improvement in the build quality, and I end up wearing out the 30 quid phones just as quickly as the £60-£70 ones, just before the warranty is up. I should also add that it's not like I drive over them or anything! For some reason earphone wiring just hasn't been perfected in my view - at least with anything in the mid range that I know of. Perhaps trading up to the beginning of the top end might see some build quality improvements, but I have my doubts.

It still applies as the MSRP for the white se 210's are £99.99 http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/3438214/Shure-SE210-Sound-Isolating-Earphones/Product.html as are the pink se 115's.

I personally can't see the market for these earphones to be honest, even taking into account the other colours, as if they do indeed slip in between the se 210' and se 110's in price as in theory they should, but probably won't to it being a new model, which suppliers usually charge more for than older models, then there will be an actual price difference of £10 max which when spending £50-£70 on earphones isn't really an issue. Also the black ones look the same as the rest whilst the other colours would merely attract attension to the unfashionable (large and strange over ear cable method) earphones themselves.

I personally would prefer them to make a cheaper version of the se420's - same quality, to replace my se 210's which whilst superb for the

opps err PS my se 210's are good but do lack bass, quite noticeably at time, however judging by numerous reviews (including yourselves) the se 420's do step it up a notch or two, which would be just right.