Its so good that i own 3 pairs of them, the BEST wired in-ear buds
imo - Sony MDR-EX650AP
2024/8/11
I've written a review on Why you shouldn't
buy the Sony LinkBuds S
Now lets talk about something thats might be more worthy... and
maybe even better(tho its an plain old wired in-ear heaphones w/o
ANC so...)
It doesn't have a name this time i guess, just a model name, simple
enough, basically the "MDR" prefix stands for low-mid range of
headphones for Sony, so basically this is a mid...range buds?
Brass housing, 12mm driver, 28kHz frequency response, and a overall
very balance sound, at this price? By big brands like this???
I've been using them for 6-7 years now, albeit the first one have
some contacts broken off in the microphone section due to harsh
use(by younger me), and ive been using this second one for 3years by
this point, and still going strong, which is also with harsh
condition of use ofc: always in my back pocket, throw it onto the
ground after me getting high score in rhythm games(not only mobile
but also arcade as well, which is even harsher for it), but hey its
still going, strong, very strong
I don't have golden ears and they are pretty torn down(I am 20yo and
sometimes i feels like my hearing capabilities is worse than those
grannies with a cart), ain't hifi guys, CDDA is enough for me,
some saids this buds sounds like shit, simply couldn't agree
The sound for me is very great overall:
- balance, but with plenty of bass left as well
- durable, as you could tell from above
- cheap... for a sound like this
- very comfy even after long time of wearing, classic sony design
here
- cable are thin and light weight as well, which is good
- came with a microphone and one button for pause/play, but no one
is gonna to use these today anyway
But there are also some side effect of this design:
- Although claimed to be "knot-free", provided by that thin and
light weight "serrated cord", its still very easy to get shit tons
of knot outta it, tho i think thats probably better than nothing
tho, at least compared with cheaper sony headphones, those cables...
- The pcd inside the microphone compartment seems would likely to
fall off and get the left ear section disconnect over time, which
is.. probably a design flaw for me
- Being an in-ear, the sounds feels like it came out from your head,
which is what i love btw
And thats it, nothing more to complaints, it simply just... good,
for this price point, and would last for a long time
If its in the 2010s, i would love to have them on all the time(which
i did for the last twos years of the 2010s)
I dont really have much to say about this really, i really love this
model, and i ended up buying the third one as a back up brand new in
box, in case of Sony discontinue them, but that doesn't seems like
its going to happen anytime soon(I bought it in July and it was made
in the April.2024, in Thailand of course)
Ah... finally got more time to sit in front of my pc after leaving
the school last month(I love the old type of internet surfing, apps
are nonsense for me)