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For over 12 years, Ultimate Ears has been designing custom ear monitor products for your favorite professional musicians for use on stage and in the studio.

Musicians put their hearts, their souls, their breakups, their memories and their passions into every song and they count on Ultimate Ears products to get the most out of their music.

Now, Ultimate Ears has taken the same sonic principles and technology used in its custom personal monitors to create a line of earphones specifically geared for use with the Apple iPhone.

• Made for iPhone
• Stage and studio quality sound
• Noise isolating design attenuates outside noise by an amazing 26db
• Comfortable and secure ear loops
• Includes universal fit kit and a protective travel case to store earphones

• Model: IP-P4VSA0001-02
• Gadget Number: B000X26UTU
• Manufacturer: Ultimate Ears

Great seller , very fast shipping as well as great pricing. Would do business agin. Thanks

bought these cause they were a good deal, but they just dont fit, and they are pretty heavy.

This was my first purchase of in-ear headphones for my iPhone 3GS. The sound quality was good and the noise isolation was even better. Only annoyance I had with this headphone was that the in-line control button was very sensitive and it would pause the song even with the lightest touch of my messenger bag strap.

after 3 months of (careful) use, like all good things must come to an end, left ear-piece started having intermittent disconnects and soon the right one followed. It seems that the cable joint near the jack had developed a blister and the headphones would work only if you hold it at an certain angle.

I went looking for warranty support and was surprised to see that only the product's earphone external shell and earphone internal components were covered by this limited warranty. in other words, it doesn't cover jack! (or the cable).

I guess I should have researched the product before purchase. I am planning to buy a TRRS jack and replace it myself.

These are very flimsy earphones. They sound great but the cables are very flimsy. The first pair I had fell apart with 2 weeks of normal use. I returned them to the Apple Store and got a 2nd pair...now after 3 months the wire at the 3.5mm tip has separated and is exposed. This is just shoddy crafstmanship. The plastic case they came with broke after 3 months of light use as well. Ridiculous. They fit well, sound pretty good, but are flimsy so I would NOT recommend them to anyone.

I'm on my third pair of these earphones. I generally don't write bad reviews but this is one product that I often think I need to warn others about. The first two sets were DOA or nearly-DOA. The wiring connections were weak. On the first set, the left channel was dead; on the second, the signal was intermittent. Finally, the third set worked.

My next problem is with the silicon buds that are on the ear-end of the earphones. Over time (e,g, a month or so) there is some kind stretching that occurs which results in the silicon piece staying in my ear when I remove the ear bud. It gets frustrating trying to get your fingernails around the lip of that little flexible piece to pull it out of your ear canal. The alternative is to leave it so loose, the unit falls out of your ear. I'm about to run out of silicon pieces because they start coming off in my coat pockets and are eventually lost.

Now, only about seven months into ownership, the sheath around the wire is breaking at the base of the jack. It's obvious that I'm going to have to get a new pair and it won't be one of these.

As for design, I really wish these phones had a lock on the stop/stop/pause button. It's very handy for when I'm walking and need to answer a call or stop to talk to someone but I can't count the number of times I've come in after walking the dogs, put the headphones down and accidentally bumped that button. Nothing like discovering a hour or two later that your iPhone has played through the current and next episode of This American Life's podcast.

The sound quality is nice but the other issues really prevent me from recommending these earphones. I wish I had purchased something else.

• Tags: 4vi, Noise Isolating Earphones, SuperFi, Ultimate Ears