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Summary: Good step up for any personal portable
Review: Condidering these cost only $20 but offer great improvement in sound, I'm wondering why the top end portables (minidisk, mp3) don't include them with their products. I'm really enjoying mine! Like the bass response, band flexibility, and the little mute button. They sound good plugged into the "mother ship" too. Buy them.
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Summary: no more bad hair days
Review: IF YOU WORK IN RADIO OR ARE A DJ AT YOUR LOCAL CLUB,YOU WILL ENJOY THE BASS RESPONCE IN THESE LITTLE WONDERS.THE FIT IS GOOD AND TIGHT,THE ONLY THING,IF YOU NEED IT,THE CORD COULD BE A LITTLE LONGER,BUT IF YOU ARE ON THE GO ,GO GET THESE LITTLE WONDERS.
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Summary: Quality headphones with an excellent warranty!
Review: I bought the previous version of these headphones (minus the mute button) on Amazon just over three years ago. They have been my daily use headphones at work since then. I bought them on the strength of the reviews at that time and have not been disappointed.
Recently the foam earpieces and temple cushions began to disintegrate (the headphones still functioned without incident; they were just no longer comfortable to wear). I decided to put Koss's lifetime warranty to the test and sent in the headphones along with $6 to cover shipping and handling. Within two weeks I received a replacement with no hassle aside from being without headphones for that time.
Koss won a lifetime customer with this product and their customer service.
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Summary: Great Sound, Great Price
Review: I just received these phones in the mail from Full Compass (an Amazon supplier and a great company) after researching on the net and reading some of the reviews on Amazon. They look a little cheesy when you take them out of the box but all that changes when you put them on and listen to them. Smooth, rich sound with great bass response and good volume. I would estimate that these are medium senstivity, so just about any portable should be able to drive them. I have owned a number of portable FM, tape, CD, and MP3 players over the last 20 years, beginning with the original Sony walkman. Most included a set of decent but not superlative headphones. These phones are the best of the lot. Koss could probably take some lessons from Sony on making a great looking headphone but these units leave them behind in sound quality. I guess that is all that really matters anyway.
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Summary: Unbeatable Value
Review: Unbeatable Value
I've had these wonderful headphones for more than 4 years. I've dropped them countless times and the foam earpieces are long gone. But every time I put them on (with the plastic transducer housings directly over my ears-still comfortable enough), they sound just as sweet as ever. I listen to a pair of $200 Bose Quiet Comport at work, but sonically they are not even close to the Sportapro. The Koss cans may look cheap (ok, let's face it, they do) but they are extremely well constructed, no matter how badly I treat them they just won't quit - now that's what I call a quality product. Every once in a while you run into a product that just keeps performing and performing and performing and performing - call them life's little pleasant surprises - these little cans are perfect examples.
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Summary: Good stuff
Review: These admittedly dinky-looking headphones give surprisingly good sound. Bass is full and the rest of the frequency spectrum is nothing to sneeze at. Since statistically speaking you are like most people, you'll be plugging these into either an MP3 player full of badly-ripped, low-bitrate compressed audio tracks or else a crummy portable CD player with an extremely noisy potentiometer for a volume control. Buying better than these perfectly respectable headphones would be a waste of money.The Sportapros fold up too, which makes them great for a coat pocket. Also, the headband can fold in such a way that the headphones look like "street-style" headphones that are oh-so-popular these days. This makes them clamp on your head a bit more, but it can't possibly be any less comfortable than any other headphones in such a configuration. I think it looks stupid that way, but hey, if that's your cup of tea so be it. As for noise isolation, these don't offer much. If you really don't want to hear the subway along with your gangsta rap, you should be looking at a pair of noise-cancelling phones or better yet in-ear headphones such as those made by Etymotics. (The latter are a few times the price of the Sportapros on the bottom end, mind you.) It even comes with a fake leather bag that I keep laundry money in. (Keeping a set of headphones this inexpensive in such a bag is just screaming "I have OCD!") Bottom line, this is the best pair of portable headphones you can buy for the price. They don't sound worse than the low-end Sennheisers in this price range, for example, and they are quite a bit smaller.
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Summary: Great headphones for the price.
Review: Bought these because my Sonys could not handle the music range I listen to. I researched headphones extensively and settled with these. Im into hard rock through to classical. I enjoy letting people listen to them. I then enjoy seeing them gasp when I tell them how much I paid. I then struggle to get them back from them! All in all an ideal travel companion. Koss has my total respect.
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Summary: do not be fooled. these are the best.
Review: unfortunately, I do not have time to say enough about these headphones. I have been using them, in various incarnations, since the mid-1980s, when Koss called them PortaPro, KSP, and other names. When they died, Koss replaced them with the current model -- free. They press on your ears and offer better sound.
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Summary: great sound, bad design
Review: these headphones have great bass and sound quality. . .but bad quality of design. after several weeks, the earphones kept coming off the headband and i've been using tape to secure it in place now. i didn't drop them or throw them around, this just happened from normal wear and taking it in and out of the soft carrying case. plus the cord covering isn't durable since i already have a few nicks and areas where the wires are exposed. if you plan to put your headphones thru alot of use, don't get these.
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