Zebronics has come up with an MP3 solution for wire free music as the Air gear MP3 player is the headset itself.

The Zebronice Air gear is worn behind the neck.These headphones look like Bluetooth headphones, and in fact,are the MP3 player itself.There is no device that needs to be plugged in to play music.The only time you need to connect the headphones to a wire is for charging or transferring music through the mini USB port located on the earphone.All the controls are located on the right earphone.The power on/off and the play and pause buttons are all combined into one button,whereas the volume controls and the next/previous buttons are also combined into two buttons.This is not very easy to use and takes a while to get used to.We faced a frequent problem between switching songs and controlling the volume.

It is very delicate as the plastic neck band that holds the whole device together looks very likely to break if not handled with care.This device will not survive a trip in your bag, if you intend to travel a crowded train or bus during peak hours.

There is no management in transferring music, as you can directly drag and drop the songs you want into the removable disk folder. there is no shuffle or repeat feature available with this player, which means you have to be very selective of the songs you want to listen to, or it will be a cumbersome task to look for that one particular song you feel like hearing.

Priced at $49, it’s not the best of MP3 players. If the neck band was sturdier with a slight improvement in the sound quality, we would recommend it to users who don’t like wires, or to those who like listening to music while they exercise. So until an improved version of this wire free MP3 player comes out, we wouldn’t suggest you buy it.

Altec Lansing inMotion iM600 is an iPod dock that doubles as a radio and speaker for your PC or any other MP3 player. The dock itself is stylish and compact, and is a small rectangular block but can be unfolded on a table. All the iPod models can be docked, including latest ipod touch. You can charge your iPod or synchronize your music as well.

There are controls for volume adjustment at the base of dock and the track switching buttons on the top. The volume control buttons are hard and tacky, whereas the smaller track controlling buttons are very soft and tiny. There dose not seem to be any button for pausing or stopping tracks. Other then that, the dock is simple to use and comes with an inbuilt display on the front, which shows the source of track and volume control. There’s also a compact little remote control, like those found on many of there desktop speakers sets.

The iM600 has good music quality, but it lacks bass in the tracks due to its flat design. It loud though, and there is little or distortion with the volume set to maximum. The SFX button doesn’t really do a whole lot other then making the sound slightly better. The dock comes with an auxiliary connector, which means you can connect any other ipod MP3 player to it, or even your computer for that matter. You also can use it an FM radio, and the antenna comes well tucked in to the back of the dock. One of the biggest plus points of this product is the inbuilt chargeable Liion battery that charges itself when powered on. This dock is then mobile but docking an ipod in a moving vehicle might not be good idea-the base plug could damage itself or the ipod connector from the vibrations.
The Altec Lansing iM600 is priced at $190. It’s a tad costlier then we’d like it to be, but the functionality, flexibility and performance that it offers is hard to come by in such a product, especially in the iPod’s Accessories market.

The PXC 450 is the letest from Sennheiser’s travel line of headphones. “Portable” and “circumaueal” generally don’t see eye to eye due to bulk and issues with anchoring them to your head. To remedy this, the PXC 450 has a very firm headband; thankfully, it is padded and well designed enough to not squash your ears.
The patented active noise cancellation technology called NoiseGard 2.0 markes its presence felt. This uses a combination of improved circuitry (over the previous version of NoiseGard), and better microphones (that detect unwanted outside noise). Their noise elimination algorithms have also seen an overhaul. Using NoiseGard will require a single AAA battery. Remove the battry and the PXC450 can function as a regular, wired headphone set.
There’s a talk-through function inbuilt. According to sennheiser, too microphones (one on each cup) pick up external sounds in the immediate vicinity such as someone trying to talk to you. We tested this feature, but it didnot work too well, and and the reviewer had to take off the headphones to hear what the other person was saying. Nevertheless the PXC450 isolates noisc beautifully even with NoiseGard off.
Bass is quite a mixed bag; sometimes its there and goes quite low, on other tracks its not as pronounced as the mids and highs. We’d have liked for these phones to be a little kinder to vocals and mids – which, although forward (not overly so), lack finer detail. (At this point we are comparing them to audiophil grade cans.) Their quick response means the PXC 450 is equally suited for fast heavy metal music as the country or soft rock geners. Thet are rather easy to drive – so using them with your iPod abroad a loisy local or bus is a possibility.
These cans need to be used for around a hundred hours before they actually sound good (burned in, if you will). We found a full 35 to 40 percent difference in quallity and bass reproduction., and the highs are become a little more noticeable. They are still improving after the 120 odd hours that we have spent with them, so, don’t go by the way a brand new pair sounds.
At $750, the PXC 450 is far from affordable. Even if you can foot the bill you will still need to accept that these aren’t the audiophil-grade cans that the price suggests. That said, they’re head and shoulder above most other headphones available in World, and definitely one of the best noise cancelling sets we’ve come across (Including the Bose Companion 5). Of course they are in a price league of their own.

Specification:
8 to 28000 Hz; 150 ohms;
Sound Pressure Level : 108 dB
Cable : 1.4 m
Weight : 240gm
Accessories : Transport Case, 6.3mm stereo adapter.