Jason spent the whole weekend evaluating out a pre-production prototype of Shure’s $40 Music Phone Adaptor. It provides hopes for all the iPhone user’s who particularly like Apple’s stock ear buds. Jason said he was an in ear headphone guy, so he would not use the Apple’s stock ear buds. Not because he was audiophile but he felt that there was a vast different in sound quality although the difference within the in ear headphone and the ear buds was similar. He also added by saying that the assembled ear buds were really hurting is tiny ears. So here comes the Shure MPA-3c, with its slim iPhone-compatible mini jack at one end and, at the other, a nub with a microphone on one side, a clicker on the other side, and a standard headphone jack (to fit any sort of headphones you like) at the top. Plug it in to the iPhone and plug in the favorite headphones and you’re set. The MPA-3c’s clicker works just like the clicker

on the iPhone’s included ear buds, letting to reply or hang up on calls, pause and play music, and double-click to go to the next audio track.

More detail on the Shure MPA-3c

One of the side-effects of wearing in-ear headphones is that they tend to block off all the sound coming from the surroundings. That can have some interesting side-effects when some one is listening to music or say the distinct possibility that one could get hit by a bus while crossing the street whether the person was not paying attention. But when some one is talking on the phone, it’s worse whether the person has ever tried to listen to his voice while plugging his ears. The person on the other end of the line sounds great through those snazzy headphones, but his own voice sounds like a troll on tranquilizers. Not so with the MPA-3c, this channels some of his own voice (from its own microphone port) into his own headphones.

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