Shure MPA-3C Music Phone Adapter for iPhone
by Shure
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Customer Review: Great until it stopped working
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this as a mic and external control for my ipod touch in conjunction with the modular shure headphones. Originally, the only problem I had with it was the placement of the control is a little weird. I like to have my headphone cable running up my back in order to keep it out of the way. When I do this with the remote, the remote ends up upside down and clipped to the front of my shirt. This ends up putting kinks in the wire that worries me. However, this was a pretty small problem and I still loved my Shures.
Unfortunately, the adapter now has shorted out and I'm getting very intermittent sound through them. This is extremely annoying as it means that my $30 investment has now been reduced to a piece of junk. I really expected better of Shure.
Customer Review: Awesome.
Summary: 5 Stars
This works great with a pair of SE530's. Also, if you plug a line out jack into this thing and then into your aux/mp3 jack in your car you will then have an awesome hands free calling rig that will put the caller's voice through your car stereo speakers. As you know the iphone will pause your music when you take a call, and pick up where you left off when you hang up. Sound quality is great.
Get this, an iphone, and a pair of Shure SE530 Sound Isolating Earphones and you will have the most impressive combination of gadgetry the world has ever seen. Seriously. NASA should have waited few years and put this on the voyager spacecraft instead of a gold record.
Customer Review: Good solution for those of us who don't like ear buds
Summary: 4 Stars
I really dislike ear buds. Maybe I'm unusual, but they just won't stay seated in my ears unless they're jammed in so tightly that they hurt. I've got a couple of old "behind the neck" bands with little ear bud-sized speakers on them that I found and have used with my iPods, but they don't provide the microphone for iPhone use. With this adapter, I can listen in comfort and still take or make a call. The only real negative is that the cord is so long that attaching just about any set of headphones leaves you with a lot of cord hanging around (I tend to carry my iPhone in my shirt pocket, so it's only about 10 inches to my collar for the microphone clip, leaving a foot or more of loose cord hanging, not including the excess cord from the headphones.Customer Review: Terrible mic quality... can't use outside of really quiet areas
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't use this product unless in a quiet space, like my apartment or office, which totally defeats the purpose. The idea is to talk hands-free when you're walking down the street, but people cannot hear me at all over the noise because the mic seems to be ultrasensitive and omnidirectional. Soooo annoying! I can't count the times I've scrambled to unplug the headphones from my iphone because someone is shouting that they can't hear me over the din, even when I'm on relatively quiet streets. I love my Shure SE310 headphones and have no choice but to use this adaptor because the headphones alone cost hundreds, but the Apple microphone on their freebie phones are better than this $40 piece of crap.Customer Review: Broke after 2 months
Summary: 2 Stars
The sound from the micro is mediocre even though it's from Shure. Sometimes the person at the other end had a hard time hearing what I said. The cord should be a bit shorter since it's still pretty long even thought I have a pair of SE530.
For that price they should include more buttons!
Anyway, mine broke after 2 months of normal use. Surprisingly, it's not the microphone or that area that broke. It's the area near the audio jack. The internal wires broke. What a big disappointment! It's from Shure so I expected more and I paid more for the built quality. I owned several of their products and this is the first one that I was disappointed with.