Indeed, or even better the specially moulded earphones that musicans/sound engineers use for live performances. I have a pair of livewires. I bought them because I do a bit of live sound engineering in my spare time, they're a great way of protecting your ears while mixing.

I've found the quality to be great for general listening as well, can have music so much quieter and I can put them in without any music playing and i no longer have to listen to that person on the train that just has to have a phone conversation at the top of their lungs in a foreign language.

This poll broight to mind this which my housemates insist on using to listen to their iPod around the house, I wouldn't mind so much except that they crank the volume right up on both devices and end up with just distorition. I mean it's not like they're listening to Bach or nothing but surely they can hear how they're ruining the music? Apparently not, even after I explained it to them ... there's no accounting for taste eh?

Woah! i'm not sure which country you are living in but it sure isn't britian - the public transport in this country is a joke! i don't live in london but i have had the misfortune of going there many times - both using public transport and my own car - and while my car may take fractionally longer (due to traffic jams) i would use the car anyday. the trains are dirty, uncomfortable, crowded and always late not to mention very expensive

don't even get me started on the shit holes that pass as buses!

i have every right to drive a car - it is a perfectly valid form of transport - it gets me from a to b, its comfortable, reliable, there aren't any drunk morons talking way too loudly for the whole journey (well not in my car anyway) and it used to be reasonably cheap.

but labour has taxed the motorsit to death scince they got into power under the pretense of protecting the envrionment. it is an outrage. i wouldn't mind if ANY of that tax actually made public transport usable but it doesn't. they seem to tax and tax and tax and etc... but never do the trains get any better, never do the buses run on time, and the roads are probably the worst in the western world

pah! this is just another way for the govenment to get money out of us - it has nothing to do with the envrionment at all, as proved by the fact that despite the taxes the level of traffic on the roads has increased a lot scince labour got into power, taxes will not clean up the envrionment and neither will getting people to use public transport - cus buses and trains still (at some point) burn fossil fuels