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PROS
Excellent sound quality, truly comfortable cushioning, folds up.
LOWS
Not good as a portable unit, wire is a bit too long.
OVERALL
At the end of this review, the headphones are broken. They are beyond repair. If these headphones are going to be sedentary, they will work really well for you, but if they are for portability, I wouldn't take the chance.
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The Sony MDR-V600 headphones are… well, I can't give a straightforward opinion. Through my use of these headphones, I've determined they are durable, but not durable enough for me.
If you have taken the time to do a tad bit of research on the headphones, you will learn they are quite large. In my opinion, larger is cooler, but you can take this up with all the iPod earbud users you see. The padding on the inside of the ear cups is quite comfortable, and even for hours on end, I have found myself enjoying the place of the headphones over my ears. The ear cups give your ears a little alcove where they remain closer to where the sound comes out. The surrounding padding insulates your ears from outside noises as well makes the experience more comfortable. In the winter time, I used to wear the headphones as earmuffs while running to and from my car. They are quite warm. This can lead to sweating issues during intense heat, but overall, I wouldn't worry about it too much. The padding along the roof of the headphones is also very comfortable, being made of the same material as the ear cups.
As for the basic physical features, the ear phones are on a retractable plastic piece so they can compensate for larger or smaller heads. They get pretty big. The back of the headphones have a L and R cap, and actually, the R one has come off multiple times. I have to glue it down. Not a big deal, but still, its annoying. The ear cups can fold up and be scrunched under the headphone roof, which makes them a bit smaller… not much. The ear phones can also swivel upside down, so you can have one on your ear with the other facing outer space. This is useful if you ever wanted to project your music to the outside world while walking, or for monitoring one side of an audio file.
The wire is HUGE. It resembles a coiled telephone wired and it stretches an amazing 9.8 feet. If you are walking around, it can be a pain, as it is hard to stuff into pants pockets or the like. But, if this unit is not going to leave your living room, its all for the better.
As for the sound, they really do sound great. Loud and clear on all fronts, even the bass comes in nice and fresh. These headphones are not noise canceling, but they do pretty much get rid of all noise. This can be a good thing or a bad thing. They also get quite loud, and I have never been at a point where I have felt the sound was unsatisfactory. So on this aspect, we have perfect headphones.
The real problem lies with the internal soldering of the headphones. Twice has the soldering in my right ear become undone and required my attention.
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The wire just kind of releases itself from the solder, and no sound comes out of the ear muff. This is preceded by a week of annoying in and out of sound on the particular ear, until everything stops and you realize what happened. The last time the solder broke, I opened up the ear cup, and they were actually broken beyond repair. There was no way I could've soldered the wire because it was so torn. Awesome! No more headphones for me.
You have to ask yourself how you are going to be using these headphones before buying them. I used these headphones intensely; everyday, going from being shoved in a backpack to being dropped on the floor multiple times or handled poorly. I'm almost positive that if these headphones were a sedentary unit residing permanently in my living room, the soldering would not have become loose nor would the cap have popped off the back. If you do want to use these with an iPod and make them portable, they work great, but keep in mind what I have mentioned; the fact that mine have broken too many times and are now beyond repair… these are not your kid sisters' iPod earbuds. Use with caution.
