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I must have extremely small ears as the ear pieces do not fit comfortably in my ears
Fits very confortable in the ear. Excellent sound, better than other Sony headphones tested by mi at a Sony Store in P.R. If you don't want to pay $99.00 for a BOSE ear plugs, you can choose Sony MDR-W25G S2 Sports, and you will find there is no such a big difference when you weight the sound vs the price.
But to me. Now don't get me wrong, the sound output isn't bad.
I got these for jogging, because I found that the in ear styles fall off to easily, or the sweat just builds up. These allow sweat to escape easily.
These have to be one of the most uncomfortable headphones that I've used. I have to squeeze them into my ears, and it just hurts, and is uncomfortable.
However, these things are incredibly uncomfortable. I guess it's because they try to make the drivers bigger for better sound quality.
But the way they fit in my ears, I don't get any sound out of my right side because it's such a tight fit, and the sound goes right into the side of my ear canal.So, I have to wear these loosely, but when I do that, I lose any benefit of the larger drivers because it ends up allowing too much ambient noise from getting in.I wish there was a way I could measure my ear canals so that this would actually be useful to anyone reading this, but if you think you have big ear canals, these might fit well and feel comfortable to you. these things are horrible.
The Sony vertical headsets are good products because they have historically been reasonably small, so you could pull a stocking cap over them when running outdoors in the winter, and since they are 16 ohm units, they provide decent volume, unlike the cheapie earbud 32 or 64 ohm impedance garbage.However, this particular model has grown (physically)- the white band on the side shows how much fatter it has gotten, so they bow out a bit when being worn. I prefer the previous simpler item (MDR-W08), which I no longer find in my local Target store.
And, if you are a small person with a small head, then these are great, as other brands in the same style were simply too big for my head even when fully retracted.So, in a nutshell, if you want headphones for excercising only (but not bike riding with a helmet on, as someone mentioned), then these are great. Also, I don't need to look "cool" - I just want good sound quality and headphones that will stay put and not hurt my ears.
I find the "earbud" and "over the ear" styles annoying and uncomfortable and I HATE it when other people have their music up so loud everyone around them is subjected to their usually bad taste in music. I searched high and low for headphones I can wear jogging or at the gym.
Having said that, I don't have a desire to go deaf in the next five years, which means I keep the volume at a moderate level. This seems to happen more with the earbud headphones than with other types.
In any case, I have asked my friends if they can hear my music with these headphones and their answer is always "NO". The sound quality is superior to the other brands in the same price range, but these headphones are not meant for listening to opera, either, so don't buy them and then complain that you can't hear the third violin.As for staying put, these do.
The only thing I wish is that the cords were retractable so I wouldn't get them tangled all the time.
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