Monster Turbine In-Ear Headphones Lightning Review (Lots of Bang For Your Buck)
The Gadget: Monster’s Turbine “In-Ear Speakers”, their first ear buds and followup to the Beats By Dre cans, they claim audiophile quality for a reasonable price.
The Price: $US150
The Verdict: The Turbines are great, especially given the sub-$US200 price point. They sound every bit as good as more expensive Shures, with clean, deep bass and crisp, clear mids and highs. They’re also the loudest pair of ear buds I’ve come across, blasting my iPhone and laptop to volumes I didn’t know existed, without ever getting noisy.
In fact, the worst thing about the Turbines was discovering how crappy most of my MP3 files really sound. Songs purchased from iTunes or ripped from CD were fine, I was able to pick out each instrument and hear things I normally couldn’t with lesser headphones, but files I’ve obtained with less reliable quality sounded like absolute garbage—the mix was all wrong, and the noise almost gave me a headache.
Also, by this point I expect most ear buds in this range to include a microphone/toggle switch, and was disappointed that these don’t. On the plus side, they generously come with five sets of tips so there is definitely a size that will fit your ears. All in all, the Turbines are a nice entry into the in-ear headphone arena by Monster, and fantastic sound quality for the price—just make sure your music lives up to their high standards. [Monster]
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What are you being paid by Monster? These are ridiculous, you can’t tell the difference between the free earbuds that come with your iPod vs these.
In fact I would challenge you to do a blind test and tell me if you can tell the difference between the standard iPod earbuds and these, you can’t. This is just another rip-off from a shady company. No offense but you sound like a shill for monster “The Turbines are great, especially given the sub-$US200 price point”?? Really, there’s lots of earbuds being sold for 200+ ??
Drew, have you listened to these EVER? I doubt it, you know why? Cuz if you did listen to them, you wouldn’t say that at all. Your post shows nothing but ignorance. Monster’s audio division fears far better and has much more substance than their cables ever will. Thing is, AUDIOPHILES rate this pretty well for the pricepoint, infact, there’s a 15 page+ thread on them on the world’s biggest headphone forum, head-fi.org: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f103/monster-turbine-appreciation-thread-416736/ Thing is, most people on Head-fi judge stuff OBJECTIVELY regardless of who it’s made by. In fact, funny and ironically enough, one of the few criticisms of the Turbine is the cable. Anyway, there are a TON of earphones that are 200+ dollars.