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 enlarge | Brand: Philips
Category: CE
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $91.79
You Save: $8.20 (8%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 1.6 x 6.9 x 6.9
MPN: SHE9850/27
Model: SHE9850/27
UPC: 609585150270
EAN: 0609585150270
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 Phillips SHE-9850 Earplug August 10, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Pros: Sound excellent, clear and detail, bass could be better but expected from reading other reviews. It comes with nice little metal case. The silicon plug are so air tight you actually can feel air pressure in you ear (this could be a cons), and that acts like a passive noise cancelling, blocks about 80% of high freq noise. Personally I like the included memeory foam plug which feels much better, yet still blocks some noise. Price at sub-$100 is not bad for the quality
Cons: Not a lot of places sell them, I can only find Amazon. Because of that I am not sure where I can find replacement for the memory foam attachment plugs that phillips recommendss to replace every 3 months! It could use a softer wire, but I have seen worse in much more expensive brand. Softer wire == less noise when the wire is moved around with the silicon attachment. Foam doesn't seem to have that problem.
Great sound and exceptional comfort June 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
These are perhaps the best in ear earphones I've ever used. They are lightweight, comfortable, stay in your ear, and offer great sound.
I've long ago ditched most earbud style earphones. They offer horrible sound, are uncomfortable, and never stay in your ear. These earphones address those issues with style, comfort, and great sound reproduction.
The mid and high range reproduction is crisp and clean without any noticeable distortion. Low range is somewhat lacking but is proberly above what most small earbud style headphones are.
They feature many great design features such as replaceable buds for the earpiece. There is small, medium, and large. There is also a set of memory foam that you can choose. This is good because as everyone's ears are different, most earpieces are not. This allows you to choose the fit of the earbuds to suit your own needs.
The part of the cable that plugs into your walkman, diskman, iPod or whatever is steel reinforced, which is nice as that is what usually breaks first on headphones. They also come with a steel carrying case to protect your headphones when not in use. They also have a cleaning tool to clean any nasty bits that may get into the canal of the phones.
All-in-all a great set of phones for the audiophile. They are lightweight, sound great, and most importantly, stay in your ear and are comfortable.
Incredible, 'full room' sound from these in-ear 'phones June 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Around our home you could probably find at least 15 pairs of in-ear headphones. We've tried a few!
Used for noise reduction (i.e. 'screaming baby symphony') on planes or other crowded places, and also when we ride motorcycles, comfort and sound are very important to us.
After a long search a few years ago, I ended up with the Etymotic ER6, which we have 3 pairs of. These phones fit comfortably in my ears, are tiny enough to fit inside a helmet without creating pressure points, and (until now) I thought they had awesome sound quality.
Not anymore!
The new winner in our stash of 'phones are these Philips SHE9850's.
The first thing I did after receiving these is get out the MP3 Player and my ER6 'phones. I started by listening to a complex song on the ER6's, then switched out to the SHE9850's.
The 9850's fit my ear comfortably, no excess pressure, but enough tension to hold them in place inside my motorcycle helmet (nothing more frustrating than riding 100 miles with one headphone bouncing around inside your helmet!).
The sound quality is simply astonishing. The ER6 gives good sound, but the 9850's not only have better and more nuanced tones, they make you feel like the sound is coming from all around you - The only thing I could compare it to is 2D versus 3D. The ER6 'phones sound flat in comparison to the 9850's.
External noise reduction is excellent - on par with the ER6. This is important in noisy areas, where you'd have to crank up a normal set of headphones to hear the music, these in-ear 'phones cancel noise like earplugs, so your listening volume can be extremely low. Much safer for the ears!
Fit is good, with options for 3 different silicone-style buds, and also foam. The design of the 'phones is a bit different, left and right buds are each angled for the best fit in their particular ear - so you'll know it if you've got them switched around.
The headphones come with a very nice aluminum (!!) holder which will keep the cords from tangling, and keep the headphones from being damaged. Also inside the holder is a tool for removing earwax (yuck!) from the 'phones. My only complaint about the holder is that the slide access doesn't clip into place, so there's nothing to keep it from opening up whenever it feels like it.
Our only problem with the 9850's is who gets to use them. We're now fighting over them every time we go out riding!
 Very good noise isolation, fit and finish, lows could be improved June 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
SUMMARY: The best part about these Phillips in-ear headphones is the noise isolation. Surprisingly, although the ear plugs look a little on the large size, they fit quite smoothly and snugly into one's ear. Sound quality is decent, but not as good as I'd expect of an $80 unit. Mids and highs were clear, but not spectacular. Lows and bass were pretty much nonexistent.
PACKAGING: As someone else mentioned, you don't need a box cutter to open these up. They come in a glossy (ipod white?) plastic package, that opens up easily, like a book. Everything inside is neatly packaged. It comes with an aluminum carrying case as well, which has considerable heft to it, and feels like a substantial, and very nice item.
APPEARANCES: The Philips earbuds themselves have a metallic, slightly translucent, sheen to them, which gives a modern, sleek feel. As you can immediately see, the earbuds are designed to be placed all the way into your ear, right next to the ear canal. They are slightly canted at an angle, to optimize placement.
USAGE: The earbuds surprisingly fit very easily into one's ear. The fit is snug, not loose at all. They would be very hard to yank from your ear accidentally. The connection is a standard gold plated microphone jack, which should plug into most MP3 and portable music players.
Noise isolation is perfect. I had these on, while sitting a few inches from my TV, and could barely hear the TV. They're that quiet; probably due to the effect of having in-ear placement, and noise-dampening material. In fact, I found that noise isolation was so optimal, that I could reduce the main volume control on my MP3 player by a factor of 3, and still maintain the same loudness as my cheaper pair of Sennheiser earbuds.
Mids and highs are very clear, although not significantly more than my cheaper Sennheiser unit. Bass is almost non-existent. Frankly, I was expecting more from an $80 unit. I don't expect there to be bass drowning out the other levels, but there should be some bass. And that's the primary reason for giving it 4, not 5 stars.
It's otherwise a great unit- improve the lows, and I'll give it 5 stars.
I Swear I Hear A Subwoofer? July 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like to start with the bad. In this case there really is not much to complain about, I find that the little molded silicon ear sleeves tend to slip in my ears when I use the phones in the gym if I do not use the included wire clip, or while chewing (when this happens the sound is little better than an old transistor radio). Also, the wires tend to be a little more stiff than those on my standard iPod phones, not something serious, but they tend to retain the loops from storage a little longer when unpacked for wearing.
Like I said those are pretty minor faults. Stack that against the truly insulated environment of the memory foam sleeves and the rich sound they provide (note: do not wear these sleeves while cycling, you will never hear the car that hit you). The bass is so rich that I could swear that they built a subwoofer into these little babies. The memory foam sleeves do not slip and when worn at the gym I cannot even hear the metal plates clanking when I drop them back on the rack after a set. The high end turns in good response as well, not quite to the point of inspiring thoughts of a separate tweeter, but still very respectable.
The set comes with the phones themselves, three sizes of molded sleeves, one set of memory foam sleeves, a wire clip to hold the wire in place on your shirt and a metal storage case for securing these little treasures. All in all, I feel very comfortable giving these earbuds the full five stars, they deserve it.
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