Amazon.com Product Description
Ultimate Ears 5 Pro's are now available in Clear! For the last ten 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 of out of their music. Our super.fi products were developed so that you too can hear music the way it was meant to be heard. If professional studio quality sound is what you are after and only the best earphones will do, then you need the super.fi 5 Pro dual speaker professional quality earphones. The super.fi 5 Pro earphones offer the most accurate experience when listening to any style of music. The super.fi 5 Pro has the highest quality in-ear, acoustic technology available making this our premiere dual speaker professional earphone product. These earphones also incorporate all the best features that super.fi products have to offer including pro-style ear loops that secure your earphones in place and a universal fit kit with 6 single flange silicone tips (2 small, 2 medium, 2 large), 2 dual flange silicone tips, and 2 standard foam ear tips that maximize your comfort and increase noise isolation from the sounds around you. They also come with a 46-inch cable, cable adjuster, and gold plated 1/8-inch input plug and ship with a metallic protective travel case, sound level attenuator, cleaning tool, 1/4-inch adaptor jack, user guide, and a 2 year warranty. Now your head is a concert hall, but don't take our word for it--hear the difference for yourself!
Customer Reviews:
swichted from Ety's ER-6i.......2007-12-26
I bought this product to get a better sound than with my ER-6i that I used before. And the sound quality is much better with these.
But why 4 stars instead of 5?
Thats because the fit isn't as nice as my old Ety's, you don't feel the Ety's, even after a couple of hours. These are just bulkier and I didn't find the perfect sleeve for my ears. At the moment I'm switching between the 2-flange and the smallest normal ones to find a comfy fit. And as they were much bigger than the Ety's they stick out from the ear quite a bit...
Super.fi 5 pro's.......2007-12-25
This is my first pair of canal phones but I have tried others via friends. These have rich bass, as well as vocals.. I am extremely pleased with the sound quality, but cosmetics could be better.. they are bulky, and not entirely visually pleasing. They remind me of a tank compared to the stylish Q-jays. But As previously stated, the sound quality is top knotch. I recommend these to anybody that uses their MP3 player a lot, and willing to throw over 100$ into canal phones.
These things made me smile so big..........2007-12-24
I got the Super.fi 5 Pro and the SE530 and I am having a tough time deciding which I like more. From all I have read the SE530 should be the clear winner, but I have not heard it that way.
The 5 Pro was so pleasing. When I got them in I loved how secure they fit, and the sound was awesome. The first time I started listening, I was caught smiling stupidly by my co-worker and had to explain everything. These earphones just delivered the music in a whole new way compared to anything I had listened to up to that point (stock earbuds, custom molded Challengers from Precision Labs, SE110, SE210).
The 530's perhaps sound a little better. So difficult to tell and I am swapping them in and out in different environments trying to discern each little detail. And I find myself grabbing the Super.fi 5 and wanting to keep them in my ears for some reason. I love the moldable section that loops over the ear.
I will say that the UE Superfi 5 Pro does not have anything over the 530's, but rather my complaint is that the tubes are larger in diameter and they lack the foam inserts. So for that I will probably stick with the 530's because I can keep them in my ears longer and with less pain. I am certainly not missing anything with the SE530 except weight in my wallet. Sonically they deliver all the UE 5 have and more with only one question; is it worth @$200 more?
No. I would absolutely be satisfied with the Super.fi 5 Pro if I didn't have to stuff and wedge the rubber tip in my left ear which is smaller than my right. I cannot tolerate that any longer so I must go with the Shure SE530 and the compressible expanding foam which are much friendlier to my ear canals.
Although the SE530 did not elevate my listening level to a new plane over the Super.fi 5, the quality is fantastic and they go into my ear without creating pain.
I am sad for 2 things:
1. That the diameter of the UE 5 was too large for me to comfortably take advantage of a product that delivers such great sound quality nearly rivaling a top tier product at a far from top tier price (consumers dream) and
2. Now that it matters, re-ripping my CD collection to improve the sound quality of music files is incredibly time consuming.
Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro.......2007-12-21
I have owned this product for 1 month and I am very pleased with these earphones. Excellent audio quality as long as you take the time to fit them to your ears properly, there are 5 pair of different rubber/foam ear pieces to accomplish this. Sometimes I use some EQ on my iPod and sometimes not, depending on my mood. Walking on the treadmill listening to ZZ Top greatest hits take 2 with the EQ set to R&B is pretty much da bomb for me. Does need to be "cranked up" a little to be appreciated fully. Sounds very much like my well equalized tri-amped PA system in a personal form factor.
Ultimate Ears.......2007-12-21
Good sound. But were cutting in and out of left channel. Company still hasn't taken care of it. Expensive, but I am disappointed that they were defective out of the box.
Product Description
Clear - The super.fi 5 Pro has the best quality in-ear acoustic technology available making this our premiere dual speaker professional earphone product. Now in New Metallic Colors for the Earphones. A newly designed more durable 2.0 Silver Cable. A new metallic Travel Case with a sand blast finish on the outside and velvet lining on the inside.
Product Description
7" widescreen TFT color display for easy viewing of clock radio and calendarMP3 WMA JPEG DivX and MPEG4 file supportUSB and SD /MMC card slot for photos music and video clipsPreloaded nature sounds and relaxation musicFM digital tuning with 20 presetsDual alarm timeGentle wake with increasing alarm volume
Customer Reviews:
Get Idea, poor product marketing and development.......2007-12-26
Pro: Great Industrial design, useful combination of picture frame and clock, good set of features. Con: no slide show mode when viewing with clock, Poor clock/picture screen layout and sensitivity to low lighting, no AM radio frequency.
I agree with what others have said concerning this product. I purchased this product for my wife for Christmas because she needed a new alarm clock and she's quite the sentimental type.
This is a great idea that Philips sales and exec. team came up with, but being in product management myself, I can imagine that poor product marketing doomed this product. I'll bet that there was no user testing or focus study groups for this product, or if there was, they we're asking the right questions, or testing it in the right conditions (did anyone every have potential users try to sleep in a dark room with it.)
My biggest problem with it, and reason that I will return it, is that you can not slideshow mode the pictures when showing the clock. This is absurd since it is a pretty cool clock and a good digital photo frame but can not be both - "one hand not knowing what the other is doing." I also agree with another reviewer that they could have made better use of the 7 inch screen when showing the clock and photo. The interface designer was more interested with making the photo look like a 35mm slide than thinking about all the wasted space it takes up on the screen not to mention the excessive white space giving off too much light at night. I disagree with what other reviewers have said about no built-in memory; if your going to use this as a picture frame, most users will purchase a 1 to 4Gig SD card for it - and in this implementation, Philips did it right.
Philips, if you're listening, don't deep-six this product line because of poor sales or returns, but rather from a poor implementation by your product development and management team - You still have a chance to make a winner with a follow-on to this product, or a significant Software upgrade.
This is NOT an MP3 Alarm Clock.......2007-12-26
This device is a snazzy digital picture frame with some excellent features, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. It is NOT an MP3 alarm clock. It has alarm clock features to wake you up to the FM tuner (no AM) or to some pre-set sounds (mostly nature soothers). The packaging is somewhat misleading, and the store I found it in placed it with the alarm clocks and implied that it could wake you to any MP3 or WMA file placed onto an SD card. It is NOT the case.
That being said, when viewed as a digital picture frame, the device is quite nice. It has both a slideshow feature and a clock feature which will show you the date and time while it displays photos singly or in a loop. It has nice speakers for playing MP3s with or without a photo slideshow, and allegedly it can handle DIVX and MP4 videos (I have not made it work with one yet). The unit is stylish and far more at home on a work desk or well-kept home than most digital picture frames. Be aware, however, that to use some functions the files must ALL be kept on the root directory of the memory card and that it does not support MP3 playlists.
Overall, a nice addition to the digital picture frame arena, but be careful an overzealous salesperson does not mislead you about its true capabilities.
It does eveything with almost no regrets.......2007-12-21
to answer a few other reviews right off the bat the default image is only the first picture until you go into clock mode and change it then go back to the other modes.
I bought this for my father for Christmas as he was looking a for a desktop radio and we liked the idea that it was a photo frame as well as he is proud of his farm and family and displays pictures throughout his office.
I am currently testing the device to make sure it's perfect for his gift and I don't see the problems others are seeing unless they just missed the feature.
it dims for night use if you hold the snooze bar, it rotates pictures using the arrow buttons
IN FACT my only complaint is you cant use the USB stick input and the SD card at the same time. and internal memory would be nice, but if you bundle the 1GB SD amazon offers it works well.
the picture is slightly pixelated and flickery, but bright and plenty visible. it's not a perfect picture frame, nor a perfect alarm clock although it offers many features for both. but it is the only combination of the two that I would buy.
For the right price it's a good unit.......2007-12-18
I got this unit for about $49 with free shipping, and at that price point it is worth it. It is NOT worth it for the $100+ the MSRP is stated as.
The LCD has poor resolution (although all text is anti-aliased which helps slightly), and fairly limited viewing angles.
The volume control is not electronic, nor tied to a source, with some sources such as the sleep relaxation music, being substantially louder than say the MP3 and DiVX playback.
The firmware update did resolve not only the date issue, but also added expanded filename viewing, and a few other cosmetic tweaks.
Despite what the manual says, I cannot get an MPEG4 video file to play. DiVX files appear to play without any issues - though one cannot shut off the playback time or playback remaining display.
The LCD backlighting is controlled both by a big button at the top, and also by software settings that allow the display to dim to it's lowest level at a selected time, and return to bright at a selected time. The dim setting is, for me acceptable so long as I don't have the display pointed directly at me. Turning it slightly to face the room, results in a pleasing nightlight. Contrast and display readability suffer a bit when the display backlighting is turned down.
The radio tuner section does not support RDS or E-O-N for radio stations.
decent.......2007-12-14
A good deal for $50 when Amazon had it, don't buy it for more than 70 or so.
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