SonyZX Series Stereo Headphones (Rose)

UPDATE: 6/19/21 I just wanted to update because my daughter just brought her headphones home from school for summer vacation and they are in great condition. Even the cords & the ear pads, which always seem to be the first to go. My daughter said she wants to still use these next year since they're so comfortable, especially while she's wearing her glasses. Honestly, one school year is what I'd hope to get from these at this value. I'm kind of excited they're still going strong!UPDATE: 10/14/20 Bought a 2nd pair for our 3rd grader to use at school. Originally, we bought her the lightweight, on ear styled, Koss brand headphones on here, but she thought they were too tight and uncomfortable to wear for any length of time. Especially because she wears glasses, and now a mask as well. She loved these tho! Said they felt great, and has been using them at school for just over 6weeks with no problems.ORIGINAL: We bought these for my mother in-law to use with her t.v. because she is starting to become hard of hearing. We wanted to check everything out before setting everything up for her, and we found these were made well, had good sound volume and quality, were comfortable for a decent length of time, and overall were good headphones. She wanted to have two different styles. These were the one style that she was able to use in her 3.5mm tablet as well, which was an added bonus. She had hoped both pairs would work in her tablet, but the on ear computer style Panasonic did not fit, but still works for the t.v. set up, which was her main concern. The Panasonic had a smaller pin, so it might have worked in a cell phone. She did not try it, but I will update once she does. I wish we had thought to try ourselves. We purchased everything on Amazon for her setup. This pair fit all of our heads and have a lot of adjustability. They do show which way to put them on by marking the back of the ear pad section with "L" for left & "R" right, as shown in my photos. These are decently padded, and if taken care of should last. Overtime, this padded material may start to crack and chip away, but they're pretty good for this value. The Panasonic ones were more lightweight when wearing for long periods, so she's still glad she got both pair. We waited 2mnths to review so she had a chance to really use these and see how they worked, and we told her we'd return them if needed, but she is happy with them. They've really helped with her quality of life. She had stopped watching t.v. for a time because she just couldn't hear it anymore, so I'm happy the volume and sound quality was good enough so she could use them daily. We may order another pair of these for our daughter. I will update if these fail. I hope my pictures help give you an idea of what to expect in person.

Yooo so I just got these yesterday so I cannot comment on long-term reliability, however everything else is spot on.I cannot believe the price of these things man, like seriously. They sound just as good if not slightly better than those like $20 to $30 bluetooth earbuds that you can get on here from a million different brands. Except these are 9 dollars. Unbelievable. I love them. Volume is excellent, and while they're not super extra ultra padded, they seem absolutely comfortable enough to wear for several hours. They're not too tight to where you get that unwanted earlobe pain after a while, they just sit over your head nice and appropriately.If any issues arise in the future, I will be sure to update however I don't foresee that happening. I just have a good feeling about these, as they seem incredibly nice for what they are.Lastly, I'm a music guy. So I use headphones for music and not much else if maybe a podcast here and there. My music sounds absolutely great as mentioned before. Just wanted to make sure and specify that if music quality is your main concern like mine was then you have nothing to worry about. I've had so many issues with the sound quality of cheap headphones at convenience stores like Walgreens or gas stations etc, I'm slightly picky and still have no complaints whatsoever.I'm really starting to love Amazon honestly, just so many products like these exactly that are coming out, and eliminating the need to buy expensive brands. I love it.Literally no issues at all, thank you to whoever makes these awesome things honestly for real. Not all of us can afford nice things but in this case the nice thing is affordable.

This is a fairly good headset with decent sound that does an adequate job at music reproduction. They are fairly inexpensive, so going with the old accepted 'wisdom' that you get what you pay for, I really hadn't expected much from them when I made the purchase, so they've pretty much lived up to that lofty expectation. Anyway, I've used them pretty much on a daily basis for months now without really given them much thought, so I've been happy enough. After all, they were affordable. They aren't particularly uncomfortable. They didn't sound horrible and they seem to be all I need for the use to which I put them. I unplugged the old set, put 'em away, plugged in these and that was that. Because I wasn't expecting much, I never considered doing any sort of quality testing or comparison listening when they arrived. That was a mistake. With clear hindsight, I'd now say I'd already pretty much convinced myself they would do when I ordered them, so I never bothered to check if they actually were. Naturally they sound okay, since I wasn't expecting much, but they're being used almost exclusively for non-critical, background listening to music on my tablet while I'm doing other things (almost anything instead of watching the idiot box while my wife is in the same room, online and talking with her coworkers and clients and trying to concentrate on her new full-time, off-site job). So, since I haven't really been thinking about anything more than whether or not they reproduce music, they're okay. Not awful, not great, but okay. That's what I expected so that's pretty much what I got. I should have been more careful.A couple of days ago my wife was out exercising before starting her work shift, so I took advantage of the opportunity to test-drive some new music I was thinking about purchasing. I needed to be more discerning in my listening and I needed to be online, so I moved over to my desk so I could use my souped-up PC and Klipsch Promedia 2.1 speaker system, a combination that reproduces music pretty well for me. I realized from the outset I couldn't expect to favorably compare my inexpensive Sony 'phones to that, but I was completely surprised even so. I'd never checked, so I never realized just how much of the music I'd been missing with the new headphones.Now I started thinking about my headphones a bit more critically, the old and new. Yes, the old set was a bit long in the tooth; after all, it was quite a few years old and had seen a lot of use. Even so, I'd replaced it not because of a problem with the sound reproduction, but because the connector cable was wearing out and getting a bit ratty. Worse, it had developed a somewhat quirky connector that often required reseating in the jack to work. A pain in the butt, but when they worked, they still sounded quite good. I then remembered listening to music and thinking about just how great it sounded on a brand new laptop I used recently (with the old headset). At the time, I attributed the great sound pretty much entirely to the new sound chip in the costly new Dell, but maybe it had been more than just the laptop.Time and past time for action! I pulled open the junk drawer in my desk and started digging around, movin' aside all the old serial cables, card readers, cabled mouses (mice?) and such until I found the cloth bag I'd stored my old headphones in when I got the new set. I disconnected the Sony's, set 'em aside and plugged in the old ones. Rats: same old problem. I reach up and jiggle the connector around this way and that, push it in a bit further and pull it out a skosh until it's just right and finally, sound! Wow. I noticed immediately that the music was much more detailed than it had been with the new headphones. I was clearly hearing vocals and instruments as distinct individual elements, instead of, or rather, in addition to the one musical whole produced by the entire band I heard with the Sony headphones. A very noticeable difference. So I listened carefully for awhile, unplugged the old set and tried the newer Sony set again for a couple of songs, then unplugged them again and reconnected the old headphones. There was absolutely no doubt about it -- the old no-name headset (only about $20 more expensive than the new Sony's) absolutely reproduced the music with more clarity and even a deeper low end.Now what to do? Well, when I'm not paying close attention to the music, the Sony headphones and my Samsung tablet are fine, so I have those in the living room beside my easy chair (to use while my wife is working). If I want better sound while she's at work, now I have the option to move over to my desk and use my old headphones on my desktop. Not ideal maybe, but it works for me. I still have the problem with the connector on the old set every now and again, but unless and until it breaks down completely, it works.Bottom line? These inexpensive Sony headphones work, they're not uncomfortable, they're not even close to being awful, so they may be perfect for listening to music in the background or other such offhand use where not too much attention will be paid to the details. Folks that aren't too picky about music or really don't care about all the subtle little nuances that better, more expensive headphones reproduce accurately should be happy with this inexpensive choice. Again, they're not awful, they're not great, but they are okay. On the other hand, for some being merely okay really might not be all that okay, so if that's you, or music in all its multifaceted, heavily nuanced glory is more your thing, it might be better to think about something better.