Sony MDRCD180 Traditional Home Style Headphones (Silver)

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Summary: Awesome price on these great headphones
Review: These Sony MDR-CD180 headphones are certainly worth the money. For $20 you get great sounding, high quality headphones with a great and long cord, gold-plated plug, and excellent ear pads. The sound that emminates from these is very good, especially for the price. I've used my pair continuously for well over a year and a half and these have never let me down. They block out just enough outside sounds and keep just enough music in; so you're not distracted and people around you aren't distracted.

My only problem with these at all is that my ears get slightly fatigued and hot after hours of very loud usage, but other people I know that have used them disagree, so it may be just me.

The only reason why I'm not using them anymore is because I just dropped $80+ on a newer, nicer pair of Sony monitor headphones. I didn't get new ones because these MDR-CD180s let me down or anything, I just had enough money to buy more expensive (and thus, higher quality) headphones. I'll keep my MDR-CD180s as backups for sure.

I would defintely recommend these to anyone looking for a great (and cheap!) set to last you a long time!

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Summary: What was Consumer Reports thinking?
Review: These were listed as a "Best Buy" by Consumer Reports, but they were by far some of the worst headphones I've ever bought at ANY price. The fit felt wrong from the get-go, and the sound quality was poor. Everything sounded distant and flat, not at all dynamic or crisp. They feel poorly constructed, and even though I'd never put fashion ahead of function, they look dorky and oversized, more like earmuffs than headphones. I'm quite disappointed in them, especially for a Sony product.

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Summary: not great for music. not great for the price.
Review: You can definitely do better for the (low) price.
Sony's in ear headplugs are discounted on Amazon down to $23 pretty often and sound better. So do a lot of cheap Sennheisers.
They just lack clarity in the higher frequencies and have a muffled and too loud bass.