DefenderShieldAir Tube Stereo Wired Earbuds – Universal Acoustic Headphones with Built-in Mic & Audio Controls – Secure Fit Wired Headphones with 3.5mm Audio Jack, Sports Tips & 3 Ear Tip Sizes

Updated review 2.25.2025I am changing my review thanks to the company's customer service. Defender Shield quickly attended to my complaint and promptly addressed it. My faulty earbuds (that gained them just one star originally as per my review below) were replaced. I really do love how they work, so I am happy to be able to use them again.. Thanks for the exceptional customer service.------- older review-----I purchased this earbuds late February 2024 and about a month ago they started not working properly. if I am moving while plugged in it often shorts out. While on the phone, it cuts me off, or It causes Spotify to start automatically while I'm having a Whatsapp or FT conversation. I tried another headset and I don't have the same problem. These earbuds stopped working 10 months after my purchase, I cannot justify this for the price I paid. I had another earbud set (from another company) that lasted over 3 years and cost about the same. I will go back to those.

Weirdly painful. All options provide a poor fit, which leads to it being very easily prone to being broken - poor design. This has happened twice now (once during sleep) within a couple months. And there's no coming back from it (low value for money as a function of time). I'm now looking into buying it a 3rd time for the sole reason that their only competition as of yet is even less hardy (though I can buy two of them for the price of one of these). Overall I'm quite unhappy with the lack of options/alternatives, and I don't see how this company will self-motivate to improve its products without competitive pressure. The sound quality (while it's working) is nothing to write home about.Anyone reading this probably knows already, but just in case: headphones that reduce or eliminate electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure are really important for long term health. Radiation takes many forms, like wifi (multiple generations), cellular (multiple generations like 5g, 4g, 3g, etc.), and Bluetooth (low range but high power, also multiple generations) being among the readily measurable radio frequency (RF) forms that we are all exposed to in multiple overlapping forms every single day. Radiation is bio-accumulative, so very much like air pollution or water pollution, electro pollution is also something that we can never completely avoid but every effort we take to reduce exposure IS worth taking. This is even more true when there are children or babies in our households, with nervous systems that are not yet developed and are therefore forced to try to develop WITH these new, unstable, partially overlapping fields of electrical and magnetic energy.In my case, this is even more relevant and I'm more sensitive than most, having been exposed to very high levels of dirty electricity (also easily measurable with a Greenwave meter, this form of exposure is essentially identical to electrical fire risk as it comes from poorly maintained wiring and unhelpful equipment like cheap led lighting or dimmer switches). Not only am I a holistic therapist trained to identify environmental triggers for sensitivities, but also in my personal case, after identifying the issue to my landlord with very clear measurements, he actively mislead me re his intention to fix the issue! The result has been exposure to 3 years of levels of dirty electricity ranging from 400-1500mv every day from every outlet (< 50mv as considered low, and > 250mv is considered "extreme"), and even visible arcing electricity coming from certain outlets, and that's *after* he supposedly grounded the 8 ungrounded outlets in my apartment.If you are in San Francisco and you are or were a tenant of John Beattie, or you want to know if your landlord is also a part of this problem, you're welcome to contact me or the local Rentboard or the Tenants Union and I will try to help or direct you a service that can help. Slumlords contribute to this problem growing instead of lowering, despite the well known harms. I suggest searching online for the online EMF Hazards Summit for the latest research summarized in helpful form for everyday people by internationally renown speakers.I will update this review as the situation changes.Stay safe everyone!

I got this product because I needed another set of earbuds for my iPhone. I got a wired set, but was surprised that I needed to enable Bluetooth to use it, so I went looking for a set that wouldn't emit EM radiation close to my head. I chose this because I liked the size of the little speakers that that are mounted between the air tube and the electrical cord.Having tried it, I'm surprised at both the quality of the sound and the available volume. You obviously don't want it too loud because it could damage your hearing, but from my perspective, the volume capacity is there. Even though they're marketed as a way to avoid EM radiation, they seem to work BETTER than the standard wired earbuds that I've tried. They work WAY better than the wired model that required Bluetooth.There is a caveat. As you know, Apple in their infinite wisdom decided to do away with the standard headphone port, so now they only offer the lightning port. These earbuds REQUIRE a standard headphone jack, so I also ordered a lightning adapter from UGREEN. These two devices work perfectly. When I first plugged it in, I got a message on my phone saying "Hey, what did you just plug in? Is it a pair of headphones?" I don't know what that was about, but I clicked yes, and the thing works great.Sound quality is great, sound volume is great, phone operation works great. Awesome. Oh, and there's that thing about not having EM radiation close to your head.It came in a very nice case and a few sets of "sport" earbud adapters, and three pairs of adapters in different sizes - it that silicone-like padded part that helps the earbud fit snug in your ear. I couldn't figure out how to use those, but maybe you can. It worked perfectly right out of the box.

On my second pair. The sound from these is amazing and they are quite comfortable. Unfortunately, each ear piece is made from 2 pieces of soft metal that are screwed together and easy to strip. I wound up using a silicone adhesive to hold it together (hoping for the best) but one ear piece did fall off completely and got lost after a couple years of use. Hopefully, the new pair holds together better