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Toshiba Trades T400’s for Shure SE530’s at CES

By: Grahm Skee on January 11, 2008 1:20 PM

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The Toshiba Gigabeat T400 has been one of my favorite players lately for its excellent sound quality- rivaling that of any Cowon player including the highly regarded X5. I’m not alone on this either- "golden ears" Matt Engstrom, Personal Audio Product Manager at Shure thinks so too.

When I stopped by the Shure’s booth I found out about a little side deal at CES 2008. Toshiba needed some high end headphones to demo their T400’s back at their booth, so they traded for some of Shure’s flagship SE530 headphones. Now, I didn’t get a chance to try this alleged match made in heaven, but do know that they sound awesome pair up with other equipment. So pairing these up would be a pretty killer portable audio set up. I plan on picking up a pair of SE530’s so I will keep you posted.

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Night Surfer on January 12, 2008 12:04 PM

I will be interested to see if you experience any problems with hiss while using these iem's with your collection of players (which ones hiss and which ones don't?).

rainlion on October 26, 2008 2:22 AM

hi..does t400 go well with Koss portpro?
Koss's bass sounds a little too much..can you recommend a good mp3 player that goes well with Koss? thanks a lot...I am totally lost in my mp3 player hunting..

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