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 Pretty Good for the Price November 8, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These are fully circumaural headphones, and as a result, they look abnormally large and bulky. The headphones are decently comfortable, although, again because of the circumaural design, use for over 2-3 hours leads to sweaty ears (didn't think ears sweat, did you!). The sound isolation is subpar and little compared to really good full size headphones like...say the sennheiser hd280 pro or bose triport. However, since effective sound isolation is a difficult task to pull off, better isolation usually translates to a big price jump, unless it uses noise cancellation, which is just an annoyance (I've owned 2 already). The sound is pretty good with decent bass. Overall, a n averge full sized headphone, but still deserves 4 stars because, well it cost 6 dollars.
 Good features for the price, but unacceptable sound June 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When people review headphones they oftentimes write that they hear things in music with those headphones that they never heard before. With the Coby CV320, I had the opposite experience : I failed to hear things that I had always heard before. The problem with these headphones is a very unbalanced frequency response. Bass is strong, but the midrange is quite recessed, and the high frequencies are also quite recessed except for a narrow band of frequencies that are over-emphasized giving an artificial trebly quality. There is no upper treble at all, and this results in cymbals having no sizzle and bell-type instruments having a dead quality to them.
To explain the frequency response in another way, imagine yourself sitting in the audience listening to a rock band. With the Coby CV320, the bass guitar, cymbals, and wood blocks would be right in your face, and all other instruments (e.g. guitar, organ, drums, and vocals) would be back stage. It is those back-stage instruments that are playing the main musical content. As a result you get a very distorted image of what the music is about -- you won't properly hear the parts of the music that the composer intended.
On the plus side, these headphones have full-sized circumaural (around the ear) earpieces which are quite comfortable. However the headband is a hard plastic with no padding, so you would probably want to supply your own padding. The headphones also have volume controls on each earpiece which is unusual for this price.
In summary, the frequency response of these headphones is just too far out of balance; indeed, these headphones have the most out of balance frequency response that I have ever heard. If you need a really cheap pair of headphones, try the Coby CVH42 headphones. I got them for $2 at Dollar General, and they are much, much better headphones than the Coby CV320. As a matter of fact, they compare favorably to many $20 pair of headphones.
 Amazing May 17, 2006
These headphones are by far my favorite that I've had in a long time. For me, being with not that much money, I don't have enough to be buying $100+ headphones, so when I was in need of a new set, and saw these for $10, I just bought them, hoping it would be good. And they were. The sound is better than any set of headphones I've used in a very long time. And the fact that it covers your whole ear, it blocks out a lot of outside sound. It is very comfortable too. The only bad thing about them is the dual-volume. It's really just very unecessary, maybe even more annoying than that, because sometimes when I'm done with them, I put them down, and something will hit the volume knob. It doesn't happen too often, and won't happen if you're wearing them. I've laid in my bed many times with them on and the volume wasn't touched. Overall, it's a great buy. I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't have tons of money, and wants good headphones.
Good May 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
good volume good quality sound
do make you ears hot after an hour
My husband loves these headphones. September 9, 2007
I bought these for my husband to listen to Bible CD's that I loaded onto our iPod. He has some hearing loss in one ear and with the regular earbuds he could only hear in his good ear. With these headphones, he can hear in both ears and he really likes that. They sound pretty good with music, but are great with the book format. I personally do not care for the large around the ear sytle headphones, but he does not mind them and says that outside factors are less distracting to him when he has these on. He did not care for the earbud style headphones. The price was amazingly low and they work for our needs.
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