Sennheiser PX100 Collapsible Open-Aire Headphones

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I wanted a headphone that had excellent sound but allowed me to hear external conversation and environmental cues. This certainly fit the bill. It is comfortable, has great acoustics and allows me to hear other things to be aware of my surroundings as I enjoy my iPod.

Great comfort, sound, and portability at an attractive price
After receiving an iPod one Christmas, I'd been looking to replace its stock earbuds with something a lot more comfortable, a little less tinny-sounding, yet comparable in portability. Serendipitously, the local Costco was demo-ing several Sennheiser headphones, and since I happened to have my iPod in my pocket, I had a chance to listen to it paired with the PX100s.

Putting them on, I immediately noticed that I'd be able to wear these for hours with no discomfort. They are light (65 grams), which is comparable in weight to a comfortable, El Cheapo headphone that typically comes bundled with Walkmen/MP3 players. Pads at the top of the metal band help to keep even more weight off of your tender ears. They are the open-air style where you only have sponge pads pressed against your ears (as opposed to having them enclosed within full, heat-retaining ear cups), and the spring pressure holding them against my ears was not excessive, yet there's no sensation of them wanting to...

Great headphones for the price, and comfortable, too
I got these headphones when they were priced at $33 (the price seems to fluctuate mildly). At that price or even a bit more, they are a tremendous bargain. They are comfortable, extremely portable, and provide amazingly crisp, clear sound. I started using these when my 4-year-old Shure EC2s developed a short near the plug. The Sennheisers don't have quite the bass that the earphones produced, but the overall clarity far surpasses the more expensive Shures. The downside is that they don't shut out sound as well, a major consideration when commuting to and from work on the EL, and they let more sound out, meaning that I can irritate others on public transportation. I therefore plan on relegating these headphones to home use only as soon as I purchase a new pair of earphones.

If you need some inexpensive headphones either for use at home (I plan on using mine with my laptop) or as back ups for noise isolating headphones or earphones, these headphones will be tough to...

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