I didn't even want to buy a new pair of earphones but it was a good sales man.
"Try them out", he said. "If you don't like them, don't buy them."
I liked them, and I bought them. These things sound amazing, whatever way the sound enters your ear it acually sounds like it's coming from all around you. Listening to these on the bus is not too far away audially from having your legitimate sound system on the seat beside you.
Of course, they still fail where all earphones fail, despite the "In-Ear Headphones" label. The bass is weak and the volume you'll get with an average strength media player's output is about medium.
Sounds good, these things really are cannons. But now comes the glass aspect.
Like most earphones they produce these days the earphones have removeable rubber sections where it plugs into your ear. I'm not sure who thought these were a good idea as I've never found a comfortable fit with these things yet. However the problem in this case goes much further than comfort.
They just won't stay on. Used to wrapping your earphones around your player before shoving into your pocket? Well, forget about that little "feature" because if you are using these, the earphones that emerge from your pocket when you need them again will be unusable.
They fall off, they get lost. And when they are gone you are just left with a short spike on each earphone which is unusable for anything beyond impromptu self defence. For me, this renders these earphones useless for their intended purpose and is a massive design flaw.
I considered glueing them on but my common sense decided that "glue" and "my ears" are two things that should never meet. So I've thrown these aside for the MX60's reviewed below.
All in all, a massive disappointment. Great sound but zero usability.
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