Sennheiser CX 300-II

Advantages: Sound wire

Disadvantages: did not reveal

Comment: Recently left the headphones in my pocket and washed the jacket at 40 degrees, 2 hours and spin at 1,400 rpm with rinse, headphones work like new, neat and smell Lenore)))

Advantages: - Pure smooth sound
- good bass
- Excellent noise isolation
- Ease of use of unbalanced wires
- Small headphone size

Disadvantages: The weak point of all these headphones (cx-300, cx-400) is the place where the wire enters the 3.5 mm plug. In this place, I have a stable after about a year and a half of use, the wire breaks, one channel starts to disappear. I wear stuck in a smartphone in my jeans pocket, I use intensively ...

Comment: Good headphones with a balanced sound - it's nice to listen. We must be ready to replace them in a year and a half (what to do, it is now more profitable to produce something that will require an immediate replacement than what it will work for many years).
If someone has some kind of frequency cut sensitive ear, then I would advise first to pay attention to the player from which the music is played and try to adjust it (I mean the equalizer). All headphones are unique in timbre, so always when buying a new model, you must first get used to them. It does not work - we adjust the equalizer (for example, under the android there is a bunch of players with it).

For those who will have to repair them: 4 stranded wiring, each vein in individual varnish insulation and with teflon thread (if original). Everything is removed during the tinning process. By channels:
1. Red, golden
2. Green, red-green

Advantages: Great product. Very high quality sound insulation allows you to listen to the player far from the maximum sound, which is very pleasing.
Clear sound, rich sound.
A good rubber cable - unravels quickly, knots do not appear.

Disadvantages: Not found

Comment: I consider headphones as an expendable material, I buy for a period of not more than a year (the cable is simply further ground).
These headphones are with me for several months, everything suits. I can safely recommend them for purchase.
PS By the way, I was pleasantly surprised by a little case that came in a set - convenient, practical.
ADDITION.
After 5 months, I accidentally forgot headphones in my shorts pocket, which I washed in a washing machine ...
I have been using it for the second day, I have not found any changes in the sound. Well, super! I do not know how long they will serve after this tough test, yet the washing was 1 hour at 60 ° C ... As long as everything works for a solid top five! Well done! Thank you for the quality product!

Advantages: 1) Sound. After the same Phillips, Rovers where the sound is clear and good, but the bass is not enough, these give a powerful swotting into the brain. And the bass does not fonit, not buzzing, very well distinguished.
2) Includes case and spare plugs.
3) L-shaped plug, which is convenient in cases where the input under the player’s headphones is at the bottom, becauseWith a straight plug, there is a strong bend in the wire.

Disadvantages: Say what you like, but at the high loudness of the top they ring too much, you have to cut with an equalizer, which is not in all players.

Comment: I read negative reviews, I was horrified, if these headphones, in their opinion, give a bad sound, what do they listen to? As it was said before, to expect sound from them as from a subwoofer with a powerful speaker system is the same as to expect from the computer functionality Tetris. Headphone sound, one of the best in its price range. And those who believe that the headphones sound bad, maybe you just need to insert them in the ear? :) I myself noticed if this type of headset is bad to insert into the ear, then the sound will be lousy.
And finally, I will say that, in my opinion, reading reviews from websites and magazines about musical equipment is not entirely correct, because most of them are audiophiles who have the opportunity to listen to high quality equipment and wild price category, therefore, their demands are too high. . Well, we, the common people, as in the catch phrase - "we after all listen to music, and not equipment."

Advantages: I liked the sound, after all there Chinese women for 150 rubles. I experimented with loudness - I didn’t hear the debris (do not repeat, pity your ears :-))! small, well lie in the ears (with proper fit)

Disadvantages: The first time when stuck in my ears almost left without membranes !! Absolutely sealed - I do not know how others - but I had to put the smallest rubber bands and make small holes in them.
Very worried about the wire - it looks thin.
Price - it seems to me too high.
a lot of fakes - (Knicks! -who would have thought)

Comment: Long sought where you can buy real
headphones - the situation was clarified on the page
official importer www.sennheiser.ru
On the protective label see here:
www.sennheiser.ru/news/news_55.html

Advantages: This is the best I have heard so far. Excellent workout in the whole range. Transparency, crystal sound. Very dependent on the source - see comments. Not a great lover of bass, but with the adequacy of the source, the bass is very energetic, it becomes even creepy (I don’t even want to think about the equalizer). Somewhere I saw a comment, they say bass head squeezes :). I agree.

Disadvantages: "Noisy" wire. Of course, in a noisy street, the detailing drops reasonably, but in the room everything around is muffled. In my opinion there are some genre preferences. But do not forget that this is a "plug-in" headphones with an average price of up to 2 tr.

Comment: I use 6 months. Specially read the negative reviews. I come to the conclusion that people listened to a fake. After the purchase, I tried to insert them into cell phones (nokia, sony), mp3 player (samsung), laptop - the result is one - noise is heard everywhere. The shortcomings of the equipment immediately climbs out. The first time I had to listen with a CD player (found in the closet). The result was pleased. But after buying a flac-player sansa clip + (in direct comparison, the apple loses in sound quality) for the first half-hour I listened with my mouth open. Compared with home monitor sony (the model is rather old - they are already 8 years old) - I decided to give it in good hands. I am not an expert and did not have the opportunity to listen / compare hi-end equipment. Just to repeat, this is the best I have heard so far.

Advantages: Very good juicy sound! As a person who regularly listens to music on the way to work in the subway is a very good noise isolation from extraneous sounds. Not deafening silence, of course, but very worthy headphones.
And vice versa - none of those around you hears what I listen to even at full volume. The situation when a half bus will sing along is excluded))
Convenient storage pouch - a trifle but nice)

Disadvantages: It is difficult to attribute this to shortcomings given the design, but still: when walking, I can significantly hear my own steps.Right robokop, damn :) - exactly the same effect as when using earplugs. As for the discussed wind noise and the sound of the wire that touches clothes, I usually miss the wire under my jacket and therefore he does not knock on my clothes. The wind is very faint. If you turn off the sound and the tangible wind - maybe hear.

Comment: He took the headphones so that he could finally listen to music on the subway, and not only Marilyn Manson, but also quiet jazz compositions without straining his ears and turning the volume to maximum. And also to the floor of the car did not listen to what I was listening to.
In this regard, the headphones are just perfect! Better and hard to come up with.
I finally can calmly listen to Ella Fitzgerald))

If you listen to music during active sports, often you have to walk a lot along the street - then you just need a different type of headphones.

Yes, by the way, we really have to look around more often on the street - if the Belarus tractor is hard not to hear, then the medium-sized truck becomes almost unheard of :)

Advantages: Clear sound, deep bass. A hard wire that never, ever really coiled up.
For more than a year of use, all advantages should not be listed immediately.

Disadvantages: No clothespins :) Sometimes the wire crawled to the left and felt some discomfort because of this, as a result, I attached a wire to the clothespin from the Nokia.

Comment: The guys who write that there is no bass in the headphones, or they quickly fail and the like - remove the ear cushions and pay attention to the mesh. If it is sealed inside - this is the original Sennheiser, but if the reticulum sits as if in an overlap - congratulations, you bought a fake.
As for the loss of sound volume with time, there is only one advice - we clean our ears, as well as periodically (every 2-3 months) mesh. We take hydrogen peroxide, slightly dipping with a mesh for 10 seconds, take it out, wipe it with a cotton swab with alcohol, then a dry cotton swab.

Advantages: Sennheiser CX 300-II is one of the most popular models of headphones-gags of the average price category. For me the undoubted advantages should include:
1) high sensitivity headphones. They accurately convey most of the nuances of the musical sound, my previous Cresyn C-EP230E purchased for 500 rubles allowed listening to music of rather low quality, and in the CX-300 you can hear the noise of poor-quality recordings more clearly, more expressive high frequencies and bass. The CX-300 is more demanding on the quality of the music and the quality of the player. For a budget phone with a player function or for recordings in low quality with a bit rate below 120 kb / s, it is better to buy headphones with low sensitivity and cheaper.
2) durable and quite flexible and not cracking in the cold wire. For the year of my rather inaccurate use of the wire, nothing happened. The connector is L-shaped, at first it seemed to me not strong enough, the cable in the place of the joint with the connector has a degree of freedom, but the strength was sufficient.
3) normal average headphone-plugs noise isolation.
4) it is convenient to wrap the wire of the right earpiece in the back of the neck - for this, the left and right ends of the wires are made of different lengths, when listening to music in a vehicle in this way, the wires on the chest do not interfere.
5) Included are 3 pairs of ear cushions, nozzles for different sizes of ear canals, you can listen to music with properly sized ear cushions for hours and your ears do not get tired.
There is also a case in the kit, I don’t use it, though, it’s easier to wind the wire around the player and put it in your pocket. For Apple fans, there are SX-300 variants in white, and there are also headphones with a 2.5 mm thin jack. Headphones miniature, shiny, it is possible to wear them by wrapping the wire behind the ear, the membrane of the speaker is covered with a metal grid. If during the long process of wearing, the surface of the mesh becomes dirty with earwax, it will not be difficult for you to easily clean the hydrogen peroxide in the solution and wipe it with cotton buds.

Disadvantages: There is nothing perfect in the world. It is possible, of course, to complete the headphones with a convenient clothespin for attaching to clothes, if you have a clothespin from old headphones, you can carry out this simple upgrade. With such a small device you will not hear the sound of hitting the wire through the body parts while walking or running. The price of the CX-300 in some stores is too high to almost 2 thousand rubles, yet their best price is in the range of 1200-1400 p. Increase the risk of accidents - be careful when moving the roadway - this applies to all headphones!

Comment: Good universal durable headphones for everyday use in a noisy metropolis and everywhere. Probably, 90-99% of audio listeners who have used gags at least once will do. It is also advisable to use a comparable player or a good phone, because on a low-quality player you are unlikely to feel all the delights of high-quality sound.
If you buy the original SX-300, the money spent (1200-1400 rubles at 2010 prices) will be won back.

Advantages: Deep bass, all the instruments that are used in the composition are clearly distinguishable, but sometimes in especially "meaty" moments the bass overlaps the middle frequencies, the keyboard parts that sound parallel to the guitars are clearly distinguishable (in simpler headphones, the guitar almost completely covers the keys). Weakly heard weak effects such as a small echo of the vocalist's voice. High frequencies are quite pronounced, but sometimes "cut" the ears. Because I used them for only 1 day. I can’t say more yet, I’ll wait for them to "swing."

Disadvantages: As I wrote above, high frequencies sometimes "limp", perhaps all.

Comment: I bought these ears today, I overpaid a little (1480 rubles). I listen to heavy music: power, heavy, trash metal, etc. In general, so far very satisfied. I listen to these ears through the Creative X-Fi player. Although the complete ears also have good quality, the Sennheiser delivers sound more clearly and gives out more bass. Ears on a solid 5, I hope after the "running in" (~ 100 hours), they will fully reveal their potential. The quality of workmanship is at a high level, the set of delivery is also pleased with the presence of a cover (presented to a friend immediately after purchase, let him carry his iPod :-). If you are looking for high-quality headphones for not much money Sennheiser CX 300-II is your choice.