ACOUSTIBUDS - Premium Adapters for Earphones AND Bluetooth Headsets. A new solution for in-ear audio. MADE IN THE USA. Adapters only, earphones not included. White, Two Pair & Two Sizes.

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B001GPCBPU
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 25, 2008

Product Description

Product Description

Acoustibuds offers a new approach to improve the fit and channeling of sound to the ear. Acoustibuds was awarded 2009 design and engineering showcase honors at the Consumer Electronics Show. Acoustibuds is designed for the standard earphones provided with the Apple iPod Apple iPhone Microsoft Zune Sony and many other MP3 players. Acoustibuds also fits many aftermarket earphones and some of the most popular Bluetooth headsets such as the Jawbone2 BlueAnt Z9 and Apple. Not designed to fit earphones that already come with elastic in-ear fittings. Still have questions? Please visit the Acoustibuds product website for a more complete model specific list of compatible Earphones and Bluetooth tips and instruction for use.The Acoustibuds design revitalizes earphones to provide unparalleled retention comfort enriched acoustics and sound isolation. The closely spaced fins are soft and flexible to stay in the ear more securely. Even with perspiration and extreme physical activity these fins continue to hold the earphone securely in place due to their unique profile and spacing. Superior sound isolation is also created with the fins to seal out noise from outside. Volume and bass frequencies are amplified allowing operation of your MP3 at a lower volume setting. Inside the "Twin Cone Core" better channels the sound wave in your ear. The twin cone core guides the sound wave like a miniature acoustic horn to minimize sound impedance enriching middle and upper range frequencies. The fit of the earphone to your ear and how the sound wave is channeled inside your ear are critical to acoustic quality. Both the fin design and the twin cone core are unique to Acoustibuds and are new ideas in earphone audio technology.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Speaking As An "Audiophile", December 23, 2008

By	sayock - See all my reviews

This review is for those of you who see all the consistently high reviews on this product and wonder if it its really as good as all that (high sound quality, noise canceling, do they really stay in, etc). I have only had these for a short while, but I will be as detailed as possible based off my experience so far.

I am using these with iPod earphones. They do make them sound a lot better, and they DEFINITELY stay in your ears, no matter how you move your head. You can even tug on the earphones (a bit) and they stay in. However...if you're anything close to an audiophile, i.e. you like incredible sound, these don't increase sound quality to that point. I have tried various EQ settings on my iPod Touch (maybe the most satisfactory being the "loudness" or "hip hop" setting for bass and sound quality), and these still basically sound like earphones...very good earphones, but earphones nonetheless. They don't really compete with even headphones like neckbands from companies such as Sony, etc, and so on if you like bass and high-quality sound. This is not revolutionary in that aspect. But they do make earphones sound better and do seem to add SOME bass. Volume is also not an issue--your mp3 player is probably at least as loud as before with these.

And they also do a decent job of knocking out noise from the outside. I doubt you could go on a very noisy subway with many people near you talking and the sound of the train and these totally cancel those sounds out, unless you play the music at the top of the volume. I can turn the TV up to a volume I watch it with my fan on and still hear the TV distantly. And you definitely can't sit with just the earphones on with no music and block out noise. But you don't have to turn things around you nearly all the way down with these.

Perhaps the one area where these buds really do stand out is how they fit on earphones and remain in your ear. They are very snug but not uncomfortable. You don't have to keep pushing them in your ears like you do even with earphones that do kind of fit your ears, i.e. the Philips Virtual Surround Sound buds I have. I haven't tried to exercise with these in yet, but I have no doubt they would stay in. This is, by far, the best thing about these earbuds. Second best thing is how they don't seem to leak what you're listening to anywhere near the same degree as earbuds and headphones normally do, even if you're playing something pretty loud. Third is how they come in tiny ziplock-like bags, so you can use those to take them with you or to put them up when you're not using them...which makes it easy to keep up with them, keep them from getting on dirty surfaces, etc.

Bottom line: If the main reason you're looking to buy these is struggling with traditional earbuds staying in your ears, you should definitely get these. If you're VERY serious about great sound quality/bass, I'd stick with headphones. As someone who is somewhat particular about how great phones sound, I would use these on the go, at work/when I just want to have "background" music playing, working out and things like that, but not when I really want to sit and hear music at its best. For noise canceling, I'd say it depends on how much noise you're trying to cancel out. Maybe for normal noise levels, these are just fine.

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I have now tried these with the Zune earphones, and I like these even better with those than with iPod earphones, particularly with the iTouch EQ on "R&B." The sound has a bit more clarity.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Bud's for you., December 10, 2008

By	P. judd (Macon, Ga.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great little earplug covers. Convenient, easy to clean, comfortable to wear, and sounds good...easy as that. Keeps my ear plugs in on jogs, motorcycle rides or driving up and down I-75 a few hundred miles. And the cat gets off battin' em around when my wife wants a little attention. Get 3 pair. One for yourself, one for her, and a pair for the cat...you won't have to take turns, wait in line or get a divorce. Highly recommended.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Has potential!, February 25, 2009

By	N. MacLean Miller (Centennial, CO USA) - See all my reviews

I noticed a lot of reviews talking about how these are just too big for their ears but I thought maybe they just have oddly small ears. well after ordering them I realized they were right. The larger size that comes is WAY to big almost as if it's for a giants ears! The smaller size is still too big but I can make it work if I JAM them into my ear really hard, if I do this they do sound pretty nice and they stay in better than without but my ears start to kill after a while. I went to the manufacturers website to see if I could replace them for a size smaller but they don't even make any other sizes, once they decide to make just one size smaller I'll give this product a 4 maybe even 5 stars but until then they're just not usable!