Athletic Style In-Ear Balanced Armature Headphones with Water Protection
• In-Ear Athletic Headphones
• Balanced Armature Driver
• Water-Proof and Sweat-Proof
• Lightweight Design
• Adjustable Earclips
• In-Ear Athletic Headphones
• Balanced Armature Driver
• Water-Proof and Sweat-Proof
• Lightweight Design
• Adjustable Earclips
Featuring Sony's own balanced armature driver specially tuned for the best music reproduction, these in ear headphones are an excellent work-out buddy. Constructed with the athlete in mind, these headphones are remarkably lightweight and deliver the finest sound quality to keep athletes pushing for perfection. Moreover, they are sweat-proof and water resistant and can be used reliable in moist or even wet conditions without sacrificing sound quality or damaging the drivers. Comfortable silicone earpieces isolate noise for a focused reproduction and minimize user fatigue.
Internal Product ID:
49575
Awesome earbuds!
I would recommend these because a week after owning them my girlfriend accidentally put them through the wash cycle and they still work perfectly. Water resistant as advertised! I also own a pair of Ultimate Ears studio reference in ear monitors and the sound quality is comparable.
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found this helpful.OK Value-Needs More
I bought these hoping I'd finally have ear buds that stay all the way in my ear while running (inside & outside). These definitely stay on my ears better than alternatives. However, they do loosen from my ear hole while running and it doesn't take long until the music is quieter and very dull because of this distance. They never fall all the way off, but won't quite stay on either. Durability has been great with sweat.
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found this helpful.Good for everyone, but me.
These headphones fit PERFECT. I already had a sweat proof headset that didn't stay in my ear like these. The problem with these is they aren't loud enough. I wear these at a skating rink and I have my own playlist that I listen to when I skate. My Pioneers drown out other sounds. These do not. If my device could be louder, these headsets would be PERFECT, but if you're looking to drown out all sound then I have another headset (with many colors to choice from) that will get the job done. If you don't need to drown out sound then these will never fall out and be PERFECT for you.
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found this helpful.Review
Great ear phones. I would recommend these to anyone who asked.
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found this helpful.Review
I only use ear phones for audiobooks while exercising. I find Sony's $10 earphones work and fit better than these.
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found this helpful.Good earphones
I've got a lot of use out of them. I use them on my elliptical and have eliminated the problem of earphones falling out of my ears. The ear straps take some getting used to, but they sound great and do what they're designed to do. Sonic had the best price by far that I could find.
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found this helpful.Terrible headphones for the price.
"Balanced Armature" seems to mean incredibly weak low end. While the stylized design is quite pleasing, and the rubberized loops may keep the headphones hanging on your ears, but they do nothing to actually keep the buds in the correct position inside your ear while doing "sports". Correct positioning is essential to make good contact between the rubber piece and your ear, to properly hear the best of the poor sound quality that these buds offer. But while running I would constantly have to adjust the buds in my ears. They don't solve the problem of securing earphones while being active.
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found this helpful.Good value and performance
I bought this primarily because I wanted some earphones that would loop around my ear so I wouldn't have to worry about it falling out of my ears especially if I'm walking or in the train and holding onto the rail with one hand and holding a bag in the other.
One thing about the earphones is that it is soft and flexible - good in the way that it curves around your ear and doesn't have any hard edges that poke you; bad in the way that because its soft if you accidentally tighten it too much because it needs to stay in your ear you could end up twisting your ear lobes a bit.
The sound performance was pretty good, I'm not an audiophile and I'm happy as long as I can hear the subtle bits of music without being overwhelmed by a lot of bass. As long as it stays tight in your ear it provides reasonably decent noise isolation. Only problem is that because you kind of cinch it around your ear when you're wearing them, if someone asks your something you have to loosen it a it and pull it off your ear to hear them clearly.
They come with a nice fabric bag to store the earphones when you're not using them. I've gotten them wet by sweating on them and even gotten trapped in some really bad rain in Boston and it's still performed.
I recently got off the noise isolating bandwagon and took the plunge into the much more expensive but oh so rewarding realm of noise cancelling earphones. I bought a pair of Bose QC20's for $300 and they are super comfortable and cut out noise like nothing else. If you're not looking to spend that kind of money these Sony earphones are pretty damn good. I also ended up buying a set of Shure exercise earphones with a loop around the ear but the wire cracked open after very limited use while these Sony's which were 1/4th the price are still going strong.
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found this helpful.great value
The service was great, shipped quick and as discribed. They are 10 out of 10. Good company!
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found this helpful.I disagree with most of previous comments
First the headphone design allows you to tie the cord around your ear, and does a pretty good job. If you have problems, most likely will be because the cord is not to pull the cord a little more or the rubber buds are not your size. Just change it for the right one.
Now about the sound, for me is not that good volume is low and not that clear i had to use an amp to get better results. My previous headphones a monster isport sounds way better, but those ones have serious fit problems. so i keep Sony ones over monster, because until now, I had no issues about the fit.
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