Symphonized Wired Earbuds with Microphone – Noise Isolation Ear Buds with Mic, in Ear Headphones Wire for Computer & Phone, Earphones 3.5 mm Jack

Being a fan of the legendary Ink'd earbuds by Skullcandy, I was disappointed when they were discontinued. I had since been on a search for the best pair of cheap earbuds I could find. This is definitely the best comparison I have found. First off, I read the reviews before purchasing these. I read a lot of great reviews, and I also saw some questionable reviews. However, the terrible reviews that I saw left me impressed because they had been updated saying that the seller had dealt with the problem promptly and had been very considerate. That was a major selling point for me. If I had any problems, I knew from the history that the providers would take care of any problem without much hassle. Fortunately, I have not had any problems. If anyone sees any review about poor quality and breaking, they were not treating these correctly. After using these frequently for quite some time, I have definitely felt for durability. What I have found: - The microphone is very well built. Seams are small and hardly noticeable, making it difficult to separate and break. - The buttons are firm (but not too firm) and deliberate with movements, making it feel very sturdy and durable. - The connector is definitely interesting. It's a mix between the elbow and the straight connector. I will follow up on the review later to explain how this holds up after time. However, it is not a weak point in the build as it commonly is with headphones. Looks like it will last a while. - The black part under the earbuds themselves are very sturdy (yet somewhat flexible) pieces of plastic, creating an environment that is difficult to lose connection because of the lack of mobility, but just enough to not have too much resistance. - The cable itself is a little stiffer than the average auxiliary cable, making it feel more protected from bending and connection problems. To sum it up, these are very well-built and do not feel like they will break any time soon. Next, I will address the quality of the sound. The first thing I do with any pair of headphones or earbuds is test the sound. I test the quality and the limits of the sound. Most headphones can reach fairly high sound levels, however you probably don't ever want to because it will hurt your ears or the quality is compromised significantly. I have played these with minimal sound, and I have played with maximum sound. I have played classical music to rock to dubstep. I can say that the sound quality is not compromised by playing too low or too loud. It is just as good loud as it is low. They have a great range of sound. I have had a lot of headphones that do not have any depth. Most can go pretty loud, but it feels like they are missing something. These earbuds do not feel like they are missing anything. I honestly feel just as immersed in the music wearing these as I do when I use my Studio Beats (which is why I honestly don't use my beats much anymore.) Sounds great on the highs and sounds amazing on the lows. They do have great bass, I'll give them that. I love the fact that they can produce so much bass, but it's honestly not a feature I will use often because they can tickle the inside of your ear because of the bass. In other words, you literally can feel the bass, which is great I think. Just be careful because it can be a weird sensation if you are not prepared to have your eardrum tickled (try it, its definitely worth trying) Well-made, beautiful design, sound great, no problems so far, therefore I give them 5 stars.

Just got these, so can't speak to how long hey will last. Overall, good crisp sound, nice cloth covered cable, mostly recyclable packaging. It took me a while to figure out which earpiece was Left and which was Right, but I have a recording I made specifically to test left and right outputs. (Hint - the earpiece with the controller on it's cable is Left.) They have extra silicone covers included, which is standard these days, but still a nice touch. They look cool too - not a must, but another nice touch. I prefer over-the-ear headphones, but these will be great for on-the-go music making with my OP1, and handheld gaming.

Pros: Fairly decent headphones for a very, very low price. Easy to get a good fit with the included silicone ear tips. Unique look to the earphones due to use of wood, metal, and silicone. Inline microphone and remote with 3 buttons that works on Android. Loads of bass. Cons: Frequency response on the low end leaves the large amounts of bass a little muddy Other: 45° bend in the strain relief near the plug splits the difference between the 90° (traditional) and the 0° (modern). The Short Answer: If you were going to buy Koss' "The Plug" spend the extra $5 on these and you'll be far happier. If you were going to buy almost anything else with a microphone and inline remote these most likely provide better sound than anything around 21 price-point. If you want them as your primary music listening pair you may be disappointed by the clarity of the bass. The Long Answer: So my replacement AKG headphones (which were replacements for my the pack-in AKG headphones that came with my mobile device) gave out after about 4 months. I was looking for something that was wired, in-ear, had reasonable sound, an inline microphone, and an inline remote that would work with Android (even better if it had both the universal button and the volume buttons). My first choice for headphones in the $20-50 (the "decent enough sound and won't break on you in 3 months" range), Sony, had reduced the number of wired headphones in this price range by quite a bit and the few left only had a singular, universal button. So I started poking around on Amazon. This was suggested and so I figured that at just over $21 (at the time of purchase) wasn't a horrible chance to take on something that had an inline microphone, 3 buttons on the wired remote, and would work properly with Android. I was mostly right. First Impressions: Out of the box the headphones felt pretty decent with its unusually heady coat of insulation on the main cable. The silicone ear tips fit snugly and were surprisingly firm (the barrel seems to be made to be a bit stiffer than most ear tips), yet comfortable. The jack end of the cable was a bit of an oddity to me—it had a 45° bend in it at the strain relief (the somewhat ugly, but very necessary collar of rubber near the jack housing; A.K.A. the part that tends to fail first on otherwise well-built Apple products). Normally I like the traditional 90° bends over the modern 0° bends (wire straight out of the jack) since the 90° bends sit more closely to the body of the device while 0° bends are better suited to devices that may require full extension of the cable or many cables of the type in close quarters such as amplifier cables, microphone cables, and RCA plugs). My problem with the modern 0° bends is that they were responsible for the death of the last two sets of earbuds that I owned as the straight out cable was just trouble waiting to happen as a cable sticking straight out will tend to be forced into a 90° bend whenever it's plugged into a device and put into a pocket. That said the people at Symphonized seem to understand that people are going to use this model on mobile devices and so a 90° bend is probably not great for when the phone is held at arm's length (selfie photos, video recording at concerts, etc), but will still get shoved into pockets and bags where a 0° bend would just get destroyed. Audio (both earbuds and microphone): My initial test for the headphones was on my mobile device (where they'd most often be used). They were a massive improvement over the less expensive AKGs! The high end was immediately clearer and the audio a good amount louder. Several mobile games that I play make extensive use of solid sound design and the one with a fully orchestrated soundtrack really showed off the mids and highs of these headphones. Also, there seemed to be a solid amount of bass that made instruments in the lower range stand out a bit more. However, the lower-mids to bass range felt a tad fuzzy, but I wasn't sure if it was just my device or the headphones. My second test was to make a call with them. One of the first things that the person receiving the call mentioned to me was that the call audio did seem a lot clearer (I hadn't mentioned that I was using a new set of headphones). I've yet to test out the audio in a recording scenario, but I'll update with those results once I do. The third test was to plug these headphones into my computer. Instantly I could tell the difference between these headphones and the more expensive Bluetooth set that I normally use—the Symphonized NRG 3.0 was just better in most ways. I tested both on a few different songs—several orchestral pieces (which tend to have the highest dynamic range)—a few pieces from the '60s (one being The Beatles' "Penny Lane" since it has both rock and traditional instruments as well as '60s style left-right separation), a few modern electronic pieces, and Free's "All Right Now" (which has a plucked bass that will sound like more like a tuba when the bass isn't as clear). Most of the orchestral pieces sounded amazing, "Penny Lane" sounded excellent (it's very mids and highs heavy), and the electronic pieces sounded sufficiently thumping. However, on Free's "All Right Now" the headphones sadly delivered what I had feared; a more tuba-like sound when faced with the bass. In fact the tuning and clarity of the low-end of these headphones reminded me a lot of Koss' "The Plug" (which after looking it up have a similar frequency response of 16Hz-23kHz—the NRG 3.0 has a response of 18Hz-23kHz). Sadly these didn't offer the low-end performance of my favourite Sony MDR-EX71SL (which had a frequency response of 6Hz-22kHz)—but the Sonys were also $9-15 more expensive and didn't offer an inline microphone and an inline remote with volume controls. Conclusion: I came to these wanting something that could work as a wired headset for my Android device and competently play music and game audio. These deliver on that and at a very good price. However, if I had wanted these as my sole pair of headphones for music listening I might be disappointed with the lack of clarity on the low end—which may or may not be a concern to someone listening to music with more synthesized bass-lines (modern pop, modern dance-pop, and club-standard E.D.M.). If you were going to buy cheaper headphones buy these instead!

Espectacular sonido. Lo mejor es que el sonido incluso más alto no se escucha en el exterior por lo que no molesta a la gente de alrededor. El microfono lo he usado en videolladas y me han dicho que se escuchaba super bien. Don ya los 2dos cascos iguales que me compro en los últimos 5 años. Me han durado muchísimo.

El sonido es bueno, especialmente con los graves que son potentes y sin distorsión. Los agudos son muy limpios también, pero tal vez le falte un poco de volumen en esas frecuencias, pero en general me parece que la calidad es muy buena. Estéticamente me parece que son feos, claro que es cuestión de gustos, pero no me gusta el cable bicolor ni me entusiasma el color de la madera y me parece que tal vez son muy grandes. El cable es más largo de lo habitual y más grueso, que por un lado me parece bien porque serán más resistentes, pero por otro lado son menos flexibles y es algo más incómodo que otros que he probado.

Gibt nix auszusetzen in der Preisklasse unschlagbar Nachtrag die Kopfhörer haben nach nem halben Jahr nen Wackelkontakt der immer schlimmer wird wie immer liegt es an der form des Anschlusses welcher ja bei allen symphonized produkten gleich ist meiner Meinung nach ist das eine Fehlkonstruktion welche die Laufzeit stark verringert da muss symphonized endlich was ändern einfach ein Anschluss im 90 grad Winkel verbauen der nicht so lang ist damit auch keine große Hebelwirkung auf die Kopfhörer buchse wird was auch ein Problem dieses Anschlusses ist er kann sehr leicht die Kopfhörer buchse eines Smartphones kaputt machen

Immediately, I can tell this is a step up. Beautiful definition in the sound. Full and not harsh. It brought out new detail in Herbie Hancock Actual Proof, People Music as well as classical Messiaen Turangalila Symphony!

These headphones sit snugly in a box and comes in a decent bit of packaging. The box is also wrapped in clear plastic. I thought this was good as protection against scratches since I bought two sets, one for myself and another as a gift. I'd get to the point first by saying that these are ridiculously impressive for the price I paid. It's got all the functions anyone could wish for at this current moment from earphones that you might use for listening to music or answering calls. Off the bat, it's got a mic, you can control remotely from the cable the volume, choose tracks, answer and hang up calls.... and all with the default noise-cancelling feature. Pretty wow don't u think? Then of course, there's the fancy wooden earbuds that got my attention primarily. so from some browsing, I found that version 3 apparently is the only model with all these features. Hope it saves some of you out there the need to look further. I spent a fair bit of time comparing the many features of the other earphones and get a load of this, I wasn't even looking at this ridiculously low price range. So I feel pretty much like a winner now!! It's the little things in life :) Also, from pics, I can confirm that it comes with a little gunny sack with all the different rubber head sizes, clipper and such. I got mine in purple/grey. It's really growing on me. Did I mention too that the wooden feature does make quite a positive difference to the sounds that pipe through the earbuds. Well, they do. It's a real treat and I've been spoilt rotten by some fine audio gadgets out there that cost many times over!!