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)