[Galaxy Note II Accessories] jrb7561:
Hey, I just wanted to add my 2 cents to this thread. I've been using a set of bluebuds X for about 6 months. Prior to that I had used the Freedom 3's for about 6 months. Like many, I agree the bluebuds are easily one of the best pair of bluetooth headphones you can buy. Especially when you arrange them in the X fit configuration, these headphones feel like you're wearing nothing at all and I don't think I could ever go back to a wired headset again. The sound on the bluebuds can be amazing IF (and here's my major caveat) you have a proper seal on your ear. With a tight secure seal, the sound is rich, the bass is booming and you truly feel like you're wearing a $170 pair of headphones. However, without a proper seal, and these can sound downright mediocre. There's a huge difference.

Which brings me to my topic, if youre a casual listener and just use these headphones around the house and maybe for very light exercise then the stock earbuds are probably okay for you. The wingtips do a nice job of holding the buds in place and they include three different bud sizes which should accomodate most people.

On the other hand, if you buy these headphones specifically for working out, be it running/biking or sessions at the gym, then the included buds are downright terrible. If you perspire heavily then the stock buds have an obnoxious habit of shifting ever so slightly in your ear so as to severly reduce your audio quality. I'm a gym rat and I work out 6 day a week for about 2 hours a day. On any given day I will run several miles, lift weights, crosstrain, you name it. And I sweat. A lot in my ears apparently. :D I tried for weeks to get the stock buds to fit just right but I eventually gave up. I thought that there was simply a defect in the buds or they're simply not suited for sweaty ears.

Then I tried the Comply tips. Man oh man did I want to like these buds but in the end I was disappointed as well. They are nice buds in fact, to an extent. They provide a very nice seal (although you do have to finagle them a little bit as far as squishing them down a bit before inserting them in your ear.) But these suffer from the same problems that the stock buds do. They suck when it comes to moisture. If you expose them to wetness repeatedly (ie sweaty ears) the memory type foam on them starts to lose its elasticity. It literally softens up and doesn't seal as well. Worse than that, after a few weeks, the foams starts to degrade and disentegrate. I went through 3 sets in about 2 months or so. Since I didn't want to keep ordering a new damn set of buds every 2 months, I kept looking for a different solution.

I finally came across these. http://www.head-direct.com/Products/?act=detail&id=33

Someone suggested on another forum that they would probably fit the Bluebuds (which have very wide tips and make finding buds difficult) and so for $15 I thought I would give them a shot. Best decision I've made in a while. These are a bi flange design which mean that they have an inner cone which flares out to an outer cone. The end result is that they stay in the ear very well. They're made from a very soft gel material which stretches very easily onto the tip of the Bluebuds. Finally, and most importantly, they have the best seal of any buds I've used yet and I've gone now on 4 or 5 test runs (trail runs of 5 miles or more) and so far the buds are not affected by ear moisture. You simply push them in once, get them where you want them and they stay. YEAH!!!!! Anyway, they're maybe not the sexiest looking buds (only come in white) but they perform beautifully with the bluebuds. Anyway, I thought I'd pass on my experience for those having issues with fitment. I'll attach a picture of them. And yeah, I'm not in anyway affiliated with headdirect or REs. I'm just a fitness nut trying to help out other fitness nuts.