I use these bad boys, the Sony MDRG54LP:
Amazon.com: Sony MDRG54LP Street Style Headphone: Electronics
Ordinarily, I'm not a big fan of Sony (remember their mp3 competitor?). I switched from Phillips street-style headphones to Sony after figuring out how malleable the neck thingie was and haven't looked back. The predecessor to these headphones lasted me about a year before I lost a channel of sound.
- Style/Comfort
My primary use of an mp3 player has been for the gym (I would've never even bought one had my brother not gotten me a Shuffle 3 years ago and totally changed my experience at the gym), but the clix has now expanded that to podcasts and the radio, which is awesome.
Anyway, the point is that I always look for behind-the-ear street-style headphones because I've found that they're the best as staying on your ears even when moving around a lot or being upside down, and these cans are true enough to that goal. I was never a fan of the in-ear models (the clix earbuds are too small for my ears). Though they may look weird, their shape make sense after you put them on because your ear is more triangular than you may think. They haven't irritated my ears at all despite arduous workouts and the neckband and cord being black matches my clix in its silicone case quite well.
- Sound Quality
I was really impressed with the sound quality. I think from the Shuffle to the clix alone was a big leap in sound quality, but I was really impressed that such low-end headphones really reflected that. I could readily discern the two channels of sound as used artistically in a song, a concept that was foreign to me since I don't have surround sound at home or anything. I'm not an audiophile or anything, I really do like the sound though.
Of course, there's major sound leakage, but when listening at a reasonable volume it isn't that distracting for bystanders in a quiet area. At the gym or on the bus (where I normally use it), of course, leakage doesn't really matter.
- How well does it go with the Clix?
Like I said above, the black matches black! The silver doesn't take much away from that.
- Worth the money?
Oh yeah, definitely. If these last the year that my old pair lasted, the $15 + tax was well-spent. I don't believe in spending money on expensive headphones for 3 reasons: fear of them being lost/stolen, portability (I'd always be worried about breaking them, and the non-in-ear ones would be hefty), and I'm not really stickler for extremely high quality sound on-the-go. I'd rather invest the money in a good speaker system for my home where I can truly enjoy the sound.
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