Review: Sennheiser CX380 Sport Series II Noise Isolating Earphones
by James on Apr.06, 2010, under Personal
Recently, my old pair of work out headphones died. I admit it, I have a bad habit of washing them with my workout shorts. So many have died this way.
Anyway.
While poking around for a replacement, I spotted these on Amazon. While they are more expensive than the headphones I usually buy for this purpose, I’ve always wanted a pair of Sennheiser headphones and this was too good of a price to pass up.
The headphone cord is long enough to wear your music player pretty much wherever you want on your person. The ear bud cords are asymmetric and are designed to go behind the head. Some people don’t like this but I prefer it because if I’m wearing headphones, I’m doing something and it helps keep the cord out of my way.
The cables themselves are rubberized to help make them water resistant and the input plug is reinforced for those of us who like to yank the plug out of the music player when we’re done.
The ear buds have an angle too them that helps direct the cord around the earlobe. The ear buds come in three different sizes in order to provide a better fit. They claim that the ear buds will reduce external noise by 30 dB and I found that to be roughly accurate. A pleasant surprise was that there isn’t much in the way of line noise which can be a problem on in ear headphones.
The sound is very good. I think that it is better than the (supposedly) in ear headphones from Bose. The good seal helps bring out nuances in the music that are otherwise easy to miss.
The weight of the cord is a bit much even for the good seal and the included clip is a must to keep the weight off of the ears.
Included for storage is the change purse of THE FUTURE!
This stylish change purse, though made of rubber, is not intended to be water proof and instead of one of those little clasps it is held closed by magnets. It opens up just wide enough to make it a pain to get the headphones in and out and as long as you wrap them securely they don’t get tangled the next time you try to take them out.
Overall, I’d say that they are a great pair of headphones for the price. They won’t give you the same sound as the full cup headphones but with these you can actually go workout with without them falling out or shorting out.
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