When it comes to listening to music, I’ve always heavily favored headphones over earbuds — not out of choice, but simply because I’ve never found a pair of earbuds that would stay in my ears comfortably.  (My entire family’s the same way, in fact; I suppose we all must share the oddly-shaped ears gene.)  When I tried these out for the first time, I was happy to find that they fit — and comfortably. They even come packaged with two more rubber earpiece covers so you can try different sizes , but the ones that were already on the earpieces were more than comfortable enough for me and my family (who also tried them out).  These have been my favorite discovery on the job so far!

And the next thing I noticed after I put them on was how well they blocked out outside sound.  Even without any music on, I could barely hear the clatter of voices around me — and I certainly couldn’t make out any words, I just knew that people were talking.  While playing music, I couldn’t hear anything at all. You know those intense moments in movies where all sound is cut out, replaced by some emotional soundtrack?  That’s kind of what it was like, only replace “intense moments” with “my family members asking about my summer job”, and “emotional soundtrack” with, well, bad pop music (also some classic rock, to my credit).

I’m not someone who can’t really tell the difference in sound quality between a $50 and $5000 speakers, but I could tell these had a quality bass production — when the volume was high enough, I could literally feel the bass line throughout my head.  And when I listened to some jazz tracks, I really felt like I was back in the middle of my high school jazz band; I could hear every instrument, every flaw, and the sounds of the musicians shuffling (on tracks where they hadn’t managed to edit that all out).  I was pretty impressed.  At less than $40 a pop, these would be awesome to have either on-the-go, or as a main set.

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Tags: earbuds, Headphones

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