Sennheiser MX 271 Ergonomic Comfort-Fit In-Ear Headphone

 (12 customer reviews)

After three years of wear, the earbuds that came with my iPod started to fail, so I shopped around for some low-price ones. I found these after checking out several different brands, and am mildly pleased with them. They are extremely comfortable, as they come with soft covers that protects the speaker. The problem with these covers, however, is that they are very slippery. These headphones are marketed as being for women (which means smaller ears,) and though I did not believe I had large ears, the speakers keep slipping out of my ears when I move, which is quite annoying. The headphone's sound quality is fair when just loosely hanging in your ears, but both the volume and the quality of the music nearly double when they are gently pressed into your ears. Though these are not marketed as noise-cancelling, they are very good at blocking out ambient noise (picture a grumbling bus full of screaming children and a shouting driver.) Since people complaining about bass seems to pop up...Read more

Needed to replace my wife's iPod Shuffle's ear buds and I ordered these in a hurry. Just received them and WOW! Impressive sound quality. Even better than the buds that came with the Shuffle.

Pros:
1. High quality sound. Especially with the cushions on, the bass sounds sweet. Even at the max volume I couldn't hear ANY sort of noise.
2. Very light weight stuff.
3. Liked the Sennheiser packing they were in. Small long plastic box that I can re-use to store them. ( We use the ear buds only for the travel. At home and work we have the Sony MDR-V150 headphones and they are awesome for the price)
4. The pin takes a rectangular bend and looks nice with Shuffle. The kind of shaping also improves longevity.

Cons:
1. For small ears only. They fit my wife's ears well. But on my ears they feel weird. The right one feels like it might fall out anytime. But as they advertised, these are designed for small ears/ women only.

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but still a huge music fan.

from years and years and several pairs of headphones, i can say this are far superior for the price range they are at ($9-$15).
way better than regular iphone/ipod headphones, these rockers will display sounds that normally my over the hear cans will do but not most of my dozens of in hear sets, small sounds and errors, on live recordings you can hear way more details (crowd, stage sounds, etc) than, again, my prev dozens :P

for having them just since a few days ago, am now planning to buy 2 or 3 extra pairs just in case (thanks to my OCD of course).
the only fault i have found so far is the rubber cables, they tend to tangle and get messy and, not an error because i believe is almost standard, hate the fact that the connector to audio plug is L shaped , not good for carrying these in your pocket with your audio player