Why would you want to change the headphones of your portable MP3 player when they appear to function perfectly?  Are you entirely certain? In this product survey, the subjectivity of audio tests was more a factor than ever.  Actually, most users are content with the sound of their MP3 player’s standard headphones if they have never tried anything else.  This is quite simply because our ears can be deceiving and they adapt quickly to all types of sound quality.  In addition, very few people have a good auditory memory and don’t manage to remember the precise sound that instruments should have in any given piece of music.

Discard your iPod earphones and discover a new sound

We studied this phenomenon on ourselves as well as a "guinea pig" that was nice enough to help us in this test.  In the beginning, if we gave the poorest product we reviewed to this person, he found the sound satisfactory, even good.  However, after having tried a higher quality product, it was hard to go back to the first headset.  Given that he considered the first sound quality satisfactory, nothing would have stopped him from continuing to use those headphones.

For those who aren’t happy with poor reproductions and want the most out of their portable music player and audio files, we made a selection of products that we thought really make a difference.  There was no limit in price which ranged from 9.90 to 479.00 Euros (taxes included).   Also, we slightly favored on-ear type products, which are more common, however, we did test earphones/earbuds as well as a few other types.