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I would give these 5 stars but for the durability aspect. On the occasions that I have forgotten my Bose noise canceling earphones on flights, these do a great job on the plane compared with the junk the airlines give you.I have just broken my 2nd pair in 6 years. They are not the cheapest on the market but they have a full dynamic range and work really well to seal the eardrum and isolate the music from extraneous sounds. Considering that I use them on average 3 times a week, I am not complaining. After much trial and error with earphones from Shure, Sennheiser, Panasonic, and Pioneer only the Bose buds come remotely near to the audiophile results that these Sonys are capable of.
I will probably buy a 3rd pair from Amazon soon. The music is full bodied and natural sounding. The problem with most of the buds on the market is that if like me, you like to work out with your iPod, normal buds just won't stay put. The supplied earphones with the iPods unless you are partially deaf do not do justice to the high quality sounds that iPods can pump out. The fabulous and lightweight design of these means that they simply won't come off your ears.
The cord broke away from the ear hook on my first pair, and yesterday, the left earphone stopped working on my second.
But sure enough after a couple uses, the wires started to wear through to the copper. They were comfortable and nice while they lasted though~. I thought maybe the other reviews had a bad batch or something. No good.
I have very small ears and have a hard time finding headphones that stay in my ears, so I thought with the wrap-around that it would stay in place, but the section that goes from the earbud to the wrap-around is WAY too long and the wrap-around part was sticking way above my ear and instantly fell off. I would not recommend these if you have small ears.
So, Sony, what happened to the bass. Not worth anywhere near this price. Is there some change in the way manufacturers are measuring frequency response. They sound like the cheap ones that come with most portable devices.
Very suspicious. And my ancient MDR-V6s still sound fabulous. It isn't my ears, because the MDR-EX71s still sound good. The last pair I bought were MDR-EX71s that sounded great, but tend to fall out of my ears. So I decided that I would "move up" the the MDR-EX81s with the ear hooks. They are thin and squeaky. I had the same experience with a recent pair of similar Philips SHS8000 phones.
I was thinking about trying a pair of MDR-EX90LPs, but I notice they aren't even quoting frequency response specs. I have owned several Sony headphones and have always found them to be consistently good-sounding. the specs say these should go down even lower than the EX71s, but you couldn't prove it by me. I don't get it.
What a deal.Do yourself a favor before buying: consider my experience with SONY repair. Surely they have a better deal to offer.
"You're on your own, sucker." SONY shipped back my buds complete with torn packaging and internal routing crap.
Nope. This is SONY standing behind its product.
There are two good reasons NOT to buy these headphones: 1) they may very well fail without cause, as two pairs I've own have failed; and 2) SONY is so contemptuous of their customers that they offer to replace your defective $30 headphones with a `reconditioned' pair for $25. I mailed in my bum buds - the second pair that failed - but I objected to SONY's pricing.
Oh - and they invited me to get back to them: "It would be our pleasure to accept a major credit card." I bet: $25 for used headphones with no cut to the retail middleman.
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