CurtisEdmonds's Full Review: Griffin Technology Griffin 4039-EJAM EarJam - Clip...
Why little pitchers? Because little pitchers have big ears. (Check out http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/littlepitche.html if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
I have big ears. I don't have prominent ears, like my dad has. You can still say "driving down the street with your car doors open" and still make my dad wince, and he hasn't been in elementary school for fifty-plus years. My ears just don't stick out like his do.
I have a big giant head. ("No you don't," my fiancee reminds me every time I say this, but it's true.) I wear a size 7 7/8ths hat, and that's just because my hair is short right now. My ears are normal size for my head, which makes them big.
I bought my iPod in the spring, as a way for rewarding myself for taking the bar exam and for psyching myself up to go to the gym. I hate the gym and all its works, but the iPod simply cannot be bettered for the musical gym experience -- especially as my gym is located in a small town in western New Jersey, midway between New York and Philadelphia radio stations. I can't get a decent radio signal, so I have to have an iPod, or I can't exercise.
When I got my iPod, I plugged it into my computer, downloaded the new U2 album from iTunes, and played "Vertigo" and danced around with my earbuds, just like in the commercials. They fell out. ("What are you doing?" my fiancee asked, as I was dancing around like an idiot with no apparent musical source.)
Anyway, it was clearly obvious that my ears were not the right size for the iPod earbuds. No worries. I sat them aside and got another set of earphones. These were the cheap clip-on earphones you get in first class on Delta flights. I liked them because they fit my ears, and didn't fall off. The only problem was that they were cheaply made, and after about three months, they stopped working altogether.
Last month, I had to make a trip to DC by train, and I brought along my iPod, and tried using the earbuds in an environment where I wasn't on the treadmill, to see if I could get them to work. All I could do was stick them sideways into my ear canal; they stayed there for about thirty seconds at a pop. It was painful and annoying, and I couldn't concentrate on either the music or my book. It was a miserable trip, and I came away from it convinced that Something Had To Be Done.
I shopped around for alternatives, but most of the other headphones on the market were either incredibly cheap or incredibly expensive. I decided to take a chance with the Griffin EarJams.
The Griffin EarJams are earbud adaptors. There's two parts of the apparatus. There's a hard white plastic piece that snaps onto the end of your earbud. Then there's a gray disc made of soft plastic that snaps on to that piece. The gray disc of the EarJam molds to the shape of your ear canal and holds the earbud in place. With every order, you get a set of small, medium, and large EarJam gray discs, along with a handsome carrying case. (I use the case to hold the earbuds and their wires, otherwise they get tangled up with the iPod lanyard.)
How do they work? In terms of keeping the earbud next to the ear, great. You can't ask for a better fit, and I haven't had an earbud pop out, ever. Griffin claims that the EarJams increase the bass lines on the earbuds, which is complete bunk. They do no such thing.
But who cares? If you are a person with a big giant head and an iPod, you need EarJams. I use them proudly.
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