Cowon’s EM1 set has been doing the rounds for more than a year now and has been largely ignored. Lost in ignominy and overtaken by ‘bigger’ names such as Creative, Sony or SoundMagic, this piece of audio gear was largely neglected. Even recent Indian upstarts in the budding audiophile domain such as Tekfusion and Signature Acoustics have gained their share of infamy lately. And when we got this set for review, it lay around unnoticed till we started scrounging around for some good in-ears for general use.