It may be unfashionable these days to walk around listening to wired earbuds, but they’re generally a better performance-per-pound proposition than their hipster wireless cousins.

So, for those who want the best sound quality for their budget, a pair of wired headphones is usually the answer. Chinese earbud and music player brand Shanling believes it has just the thing in its entry-level ME100 monitors.

‘Entry-level’ here means a three-figure price, with the company’s ME200, ME500 and ME700 models ranging from 1.5 to five times that. It’s a tricky place for them to fall – slap bang in between two What Hi-Fi? Award winners, the Klipsch T5M Wired and Shure SE425.

Do the ME100s do enough to be heard amidst such class-leading pairs?
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