I was excited when i received the Ultimate Ears SuperFi 5vi. Knowing that Ultimate Ears are used by some of the top musical artists globally, my expectations were set very high from the onset. Of course the ones I have been using are not the same as the $3k+ custom models, but my expectations were more »

You can easily create music on computers. However, it’s important to have a good pair of headphones so you can hear you are doing to create excellent audio. Shure just introduced three new sets of headphones, the SRH240, the SRH440, and the SRH840.

The SRH240 is a low cost (under $60) pair of headphones and Shure claims that the “SRH240 reproduces full bass with detailed highs.” If you’re willing to spend $100, there’s the SRH440, which is collapsible and is meant for mixing consoles. The SRH840 is Shure’s top of the line “Professional Monitoring Headphones” at $199.99 Obviously, these are meant to reproduce sound in the truest form possible. These are also collapsible for portability. Since all of these headphones are meant for critical listening, they are designed to be very comfortable for long listening periods.

Click for a larger image. Shure only introduced four new products, but the CES booth was full of people checking out everything. There was even a station where you could test out Shure’s X2U, the XLR to USB adapter. Shure’s newest lines of mics make it really easy to just get music or speech into more »

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Shure just showed us their new products announced at CES. We didn’t just see the SE115 headphones behind glass, we got to test it out.