[photopress:20070928450.jpg,thumb,pp_image]It turns out there are ear gels for the Jabra JX10 after all. I saw this blog post on Treonauts and decided I had to contact Jabra about the not-so-comfortable JX10 fit in my ear. They confirmed in their email reply the next day that ear gels were indeed available for the JX10 and directed me to the local distributor in Singapore. They also sent a picture of the ear gels: a pack of green, blue and black variety ear gels. Cool. The black ones would go nicely with my black JX10.
I called the Singapore distributor. Yes they do have ear gels, selling for S$5 (yeah, unfortunately not free like how the Treonauts fellow got his). But nevermind, S$5 is cheap enough. So I made a trip down to the distributor’s office, and got 2 surprises: They only had the boring plain translucent variety, and they cost S$5 per pair (left and right side). Well, nevermind, they do look like they’d be a comfortable fit.
As you might have noticed in the photo above, these ear gels are moulded to fit the contours of the outer area (the Antihelix and Crest of Helix I think that’s what they’re called?), much like the design of hearing aids. This is different from the simple shaped ear gels for the Jabra BT250v. The JX10 ear gels fit very nicely. In fact, because they fit into the contours of the outer ear, they also fit on rather securely. The ear loops that come with the JX10 are quite unnecessary with the ear gels (not that the ear loops were very necessary in the first place).
Audio from the JX10 is already very clear without the ear gel. Now, with the ear gel directly channeling sound into the middle ear, the clarity and loudness has become even more superb.
Now, I think the ear gels are a definite must-have. On hindsight, the JX10 is actually quite uncomfortable without the ear gels. I wonder why Jabra did not include them in the first place!