"While we are always open to the idea that relatively new earphone vendors can make a splash with great-sounding products, we have heard a lot of mediocrity from new vendors, and such companies are more frequently the subject of reader complaints that the earphones they have received have differed from unit to unit, sometimes good, sometimes bad. ....

Where d-JAYS really stood out was in the sound department. While we generally have a preference for neutral earphones, which are designed to let users self-equalize their music by taste or genre rather than forcing a certain signature sound across multiple types of music, we found JAYS’ balance - judiciously enhanced bass and treble relative to the ER-6i and Cerulean X1 ...."

"Shure makes what we strongly feel are the greatest in-canal earphones available today: the SE530, also known as the E500. Since that exclusive, triple-driver model carries a $500 MSRP -- discounted more than occasionally to as little as $250 -- it is no shock that the bulk of Shure`s sales come from lower-priced models, where it competes against dozens of other companies. For the purposes of this review, two of the most noteworthy are a comparatively small Swedish company, Jays, which recently released q-JAYS ($179), an extremely impressive double-driver earphone, and Etymotic, which sells the superb $299 MSRP, $179 street price ER-4P. .... "