dear lazyweb: pimp me on your iphone headphones

[dr_memory]

I am, apparently, a slow learner.  Three-plus years of replacing the Apple-supplied earbuds in my ears every ten paces when they fall out is quite enough, I think.  So, my omniscient readers, pimp me your headphones.  Here are my meagre qualifications:

1. Must be relatively small and lightweight.  I’m not necessarily married to the earbud form-factor,

Comments

[concrete]

I built a list of good iphone-controlling earphones here: http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/471202/comprehensive-list-of-iphone-headsets-with-head-fi-reviews

but all of them are in-ear :(

[dr_memory]

Yeah, I lurrrrrrrrve my Etymotics, but they're really just not appropriate for this use case. But in the gym and on airplanes (or just at home when I want to listen to something intricate) they're awesome.

[sinboy]

[dr_memory]

Well, I certainly did ask.

But sheesh: what the hell font is that? Apple's been using Adobe Myriad for its product logos since at least 2002. Also, unless the product name is an acronym like iOS, iProducts are rendered with lower-case letters after iX: iPod, iMac, iPony.

...yes, I notice these things.

[sinboy]

You get what you pay for. I just googled for iPony.

[qbaz]

Wait, the horse in the picture above has kaleidoscopic, cloned, space-warping vegetation around it, and you're worried about the typography?

[_nicolai_]

One of the sorts that has a D-shaped section that hangs on your ear to hold the actual transducer bit by your ear, might do you. Something like this.

Edit to add: failure to properly comprehend. I don't know if any exist like this that are actually iPhone remotes. You may be too fussy there.

[pir]

If you don't want Etymotics then I got nothing...
http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/hf2.aspx
(if you use the newer dome shaped foam earbits they don't block out 100% sound)

[dr_memory]

Yeah, I've actually got a well-beloved set of HF7s that I use in the gym (and occasionally at my desk when I want to blot out my coworkers), but the idea of repeatedly crossing the street with them in gives me the heebie jeebies.

[pir]

I walk around in London with mine in all the time. I'd never bicycle with music on at all, though.

[pir]

...and about an extra half meter of cable dangling around and getting in the way.

[pir]

(there's a bad joke in there somewhere about "This big!" which I'm not going to touch with a bargepole).

Depends if you want the mic/button on the adaptor thing (depending on if it's an adaptor to add the button to a different style headset or one to add a mic and a button to a traditional pair of headphones) to be somewhere useful like near your face or a ways up the cable or a few inches from the phone.

The main reason I have a pair of headset Etymotics rather than just using my ER4Ps is to have the button to skip to the next track somewhere I can poke it easily rather than down near the phone.