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Review 2 of 8
Price Paid:
$20.00
from Best Buy Summary:
I have owned these phones for several years and concede that they are still my favorites of all similarly priced others I've used. This set has been mostly used for casual listening of compressed audio - it helps to use EQ or an effects plugin like DFX for Winamp to breath a little life into the sound. I play a lot of grunge, metal, prog rock, and industrial; I couldn't tell if the MDR V150s are suited for classical. I have used these for non-critical mixing also, and the result is pretty close to what you actually hear with these. However, I would recommend spending a little more if you are very discriminating. Strengths:
Good value. In the $20 range, they are a decent buy. I recently got a second pair for my father's machine and compared the new headset to my heavily used several-years-old one. Surprisingly, they sounded identical even at high volumes. Comfort is good, too. I can wear them for several hours now, though they took a while to break in and conform to my head. Nobody has complained to me about noise leakage from these, granted when I use them in public it's with a portable player. Weaknesses:
Particularly at high volume, upper-mid/ high frequencies seem to get drowned out. I can hear some of these things on my loudspeakers that the headphones don't reproduce. It would be nice to have a single cord from one earphone instead of both. Also, the pads have gotten a little flaky over the years but are still intact and comfortable. I had to make some reinforcements on each end of the band (used black duct tape and it is hardly noticable). Similar Products Used:
I owned one of those Koss headsets (forget the model) that comes with crappy earbuds - the MDR V150's are far superior in sound reproduction and comfort. And I even prefer this pair over my old 2-way Pioneer SE-505's, which rock the Sonys in the bass department, but need a high current and have a very colored sound.
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