Product Description

PX200 CLOSED BACK H/PHONE

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #263 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sennheiser
• Model: PX200
• Released on: 2006-07-10
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 6.50" w x 11.00" l, .13 pounds

Features

• Dynamic stereo mini headphones
• Great for travel and outdoor use with iPods
• Fold and flip: registered design allows the ear cu
• 1.4 m Kevlar-reinforced OFC copper cable with 3.5
• Fits into the shirt pocket: rugged transport case

Manufacturer's Description
The closed, dynamic, supra-aural PX 200 mini headphones are an ideal choice for mobile audio sources. Their excellent isolation lets you enjoy music without being disturbed or disturbing others. Folded and packed into their rugged transport case, these headphones will accompany you anywhere.

Box Contents

Customer Reviews

Sturdy construction and well balanced sound
The headphones are well built and quite comfortable. The storage box is a little bit fiddly as you have to squash the earpads down in order to slide them in, but better than broken headphones!

The sound is well balanced, but as other reviewers have stated is quite flat. That is to say not biased towards bass or treble.

As these are closed headphones they do help to block out external noise. I walk down a busy road on my way to work, and they help me to hear the music over the noise of the traffic where my previous ear buds struggled. I can have the volume a lot lower and still hear the song.

It is true that when the wind blows you can hear the whistling over the ear cups, but it's not overly off-putting.

As they are not huge, you can wear them reasonably discreetly. I was going to purchase the Sony MDR-V300 headphones, but the 3m cord put me off. The Sennheiser cord is 1.2 meters which is much more manageable.

The only negative (which would probably be the same for all headphones) is that they do squash your ears down. This can get a bit uncomfortable after wearing for over an hour, say.

Frankly, disappointed
I recently purchased a Creative Zen 16gb mp3 player, (with which I`m extremely happy,incidently) but the headphones that came with it, although providing good sound quality, sat rather uncomfortably in my ears and had a tendency to keep falling out. So I scoured Amazon and settled upon the Sennheiser PX 200s due to the high number of 5 star reviews.Here are the pros and cons:-

Pros - durable construction
- nice and light
- fold away neatly
- extremely comfortable
- don`t leak too much sound
- cancels out external sound

Cons - poor bass response, most of the action seems to be going on
in the mid-range
- overall sound rather thin and weak
- low volume output - with my Creative earbud phones the music
sounds fine at level 16 (max 25) but I have to crank up the
Sennheisers to 21 for a comparable level)

In conclusion, I shall reluctantly keep these headphones due to their comfort and sound cancelling qualities depite my reservations about the overall sound quality.

£23 for a set of headphones may not be a huge outlay for some but it`s the most I`ve ever shelled out and I expexcted more for my money.

Frankly, I`m completely baffled by all these 5 star reviews. These headphones are simply NOT THAT GOOD.

NOT ace of bass!
I'm no basshead but these phones are COLD! Sticker on the box declares,"POWERFUL BASS"! My last Sennheiser were the px100 and they were much louder n' warmer BUT the cable at the end of the jack only lasted a year.If Sennheiser got a bit beefier in design they would be the best but these PX200 are miserable! I'm going for the chunky Ultrasones,expensive but sod the expense!