MEE audio M6 Sport Wired Earbuds, Noise Isolating In Ear Headphones, Sweatproof Earphones for Running/Gym/Workouts with Dynamic Enhanced Bass Sound, Memory Wire Earhooks, 3.5mm Jack Plug (Clear)

These earbuds sound great and they fit snug in your ear. The earbud tips that come with them do a great job of staying in your ear and noise isolation.The sound is great and it sounds more like expensive earbuds. Also, it's at a great price.

Summary:Over a year and a half of abuse: stuffed in pockets, backpacks, purses, jackets, and used daily in school, home, and physical outdoor summer work. Still work perfectly and the sound is just right for everyday use. If you want audiophile quality, by a pair of over ear phones and stay home. These, on the other hand, are perfect for real life.Detailed Review:I have been using these headphones nearly everyday since I got them in November of 2011. I used them at school whenever I was in the computer lab, which meant using and abusing the jack and wrapping/unwrapping them 5 or 6 times a day. Still in perfect working order. The clip I broke my stepping on it, but it worked great till then. I use them for on the computer at home for music, YouTube, or gaming. This isn't over-ear headphone quality sound, but with the proper fitting ear pieces, I can pick up fine nuances in the music and have just enough bass to fill out the sound, all while blocking out white background noise. The sound quality has greatly improved over time. They are very clear too; I can easily hear when a song is low bit rate. The volume doesn't have to be up very loud either to get nice sound. These are by no means ear protection, but I can wear ear muffs comfortably over top of these when using power sanders at work. I use them for work in the summer, 3 or 4 days a week for 5 months in the Midwestern humidity. I work outside and had to drink 2 gallons of water a day just to keep up with the sweat. Trust me, sweat won't hurt these. I haven't had one problem with them in the entire time I've owned and used them. I lost a couple of the ear pieces just because I never used the case to transport them, but there are enough of varying sizes that I can just use a different pair. These are BY FAR the MOST COMFORTABLE earphones I've ever used. I can even fall asleep with them in and my ears aren't sore when I wake up. They NEVER have fallen out of my ears in the year and a half I've used them. The over ear design is genius because it takes a lot of stress off of your ear's cartilage in holding up normal ear buds. My ears never get sore anymore. I haven't found the angled plug to be a problem as it fits both of my iPod touch cases, one an otterbox commuter and the other a griffin survivor, my home PC, tablet, and every school computer I've used. The fit only takes a day or so to get used to. As long as you read the instructions, you'll be golden. Also, the cost to value ratio is unbelievable. I can use these at school and work and not worry about being out two weeks pay if I lose them or they get broken. Buy them.

After the left channel of my Bose in-ear earphones finally conked out, I decided to get some new earphones.The old Bose earphones had a lot going for them, especially their fantastic sound quality. Uto Ughi's rendition of the Ciacccona from JS Bach's Violin Partita No. 2 never sounded better than it did coming out of the old Bose phones. But they were never designed for noise isolation, and my daily commutes on the NYC subways confirmed this. On the newer and quieter trains, the Bose phones were tolerable but ultimately unsatisfactory because of their lack of noise isolation. On the older and louder trains, they were utterly unusable even at the highest music volumes. Therefore, I decided that my next earphones had to be ones with noise cancelling function.Since the new version of Bose in-ear phones cost about $90 here, I decided to make that my maximum price point. The Audio Technica ATH-ANC23 looked promising: it was a compact earphone design, and it had active noise cancelling, and it cost only about $50. But the build quality issues of the Audio Technicas worried me. I didn't feel like paying $50 for earphones and having them fall apart on me a couple of months later, so I crossed them off my list.The Etymotic Research MC5 intrigued me. It first introduced me to the concept of "noise isolation", or passive noise cancelling, and that this could be as effective as active noise cancelling in some situations. Now I didn't have to pay a premium for active noise cancelling earphones, and I also didn't have to settle for cheap and of dubious quality ones either. The pros for these earphones looked good: they seemed durable and well-made, their sound quality was described as fantastic for classical music, and their sound isolation seemed to be excellent. I was very close to buying it, but one of the reviewers described its pop music sound as mediocre and unexciting. That and its somewhat steep price of $60 stopped me from going for the Eymotic Research phones.I finally settled on the MEElectronics M6 earphones because it seemed to give me the all-around performance I needed at a decent price. I didn't know what to expect from this company that I had never heard of. But they did put in enough effort into designing a flashy and informative product description, and the build quality of the phones appeared to be more than acceptable. And because they were only $20, I decided to take the plunge and buy these earphones.After receiving them a few days later, I tried out all of the ear tips that were included in the package. Luckily for me, the large triple flange tips fit perfectly into my rather large ears and provided a good sound seal (none of the other tips fit satisfactorily into my ears at all). With the triple flange tips in, the ambient noise around my house and from outside was cut out almost completely. Very nice so far. The sound quality was decent at first, but clearly not in the league of my Bose phones. But then again, what do you really expect out of $20 earphones?Then came the true test: listening to my iPod on a NYC subway. I was hoping for a drastic improvement in background noise reduction over my old Bose phones, but I didn't expect this. Before, I had to turn up the volume to deafening levels to listen to podcasts through my old Bose phones. And even then, I still had to strain to hear them clearly, and was usually unsuccessful. But now, I was able to cut the volume down to about half of those deafening levels and hear my podcasts clearly and without straining my listening capabilities. The noise isolation function worked far better than expected, and I was giddy.I also didn't expect the M6's sound quality to be as good as it is. It do a very good job of making pop music sound exciting and danceable (my sample here is New Order's "True Faith"). But I was surprised at how well the M6 performed in producing a crisp full-ranged sound for jazz music (my sample here is Miles Davis' "Round About Midnight" album). That said, the M6 will never be as good as the Bose phones were in producing a sublime sound for Bach or other classical music.There are other cons besides the less-than-stellar classical music sound. In the beginning, the stiff cord does produce a lot of noise whenever it brushes against your shirt or pants. While good for hooking around your ears, the curved memory-wire design will also hook itself around the cord in frustrating patterns if you don't store your earphones away properly (by that, I mean properly bundled up in a circle and stored inside the included carrying case). It's only been about 2.5 months since I owned the M6, and I have already lost one of the triple flange tips. This is because the tips are rather loosely connected to the actual earphones through a slippery cylindrical surface. So unless you're very careful with your earphones, you will easily lose one or both ear tips as they slip off. This will definitely happen if you're untangling the M6 phones because the memory-wires have hooked themselves onto just about every other part of the cord. It's as if MEElectronics purposely designed the earphones this way to force you to buy extra ear tip sets. If so, it worked in my case after I ordered 6 new triple flange tip sets for $10.50, or about half of what the new M6 cost me.And finally, although I raved about the sound isolation above, there are definitely limits to how well it works. First off, you need a very good seal for optimal sound isolation. That means you better clean out your ears and get rid of all that excess earwax. And excessively loud background noise will simply overwhelm the sound isolation no matter how good the seal is. That's when you learn that noise-isolation does not not work quite as well as true active noise-cancelling earphones in noisier environments.That said, I still have not tried these earphones out on an airplane, so I cannot comment about how well the M6 will perform there. But for my purposes, good noise-isolation beats out little or no noise isolation any day. Therefore, I prefer the reasonably-priced M6 over the mighty Bose in-ear earphones.