Philips SHE8500

I bought these having broken many pairs of headphones before so wanted something cheapish (on the assumption that they would break in maybe 6 months or a year) but they have broken in 3 months and have been hurting my ears. The sound almost halved in the right ear, and then the left, so I put the volume up to compensate. Then people around me complained that they could hear it; it turns out that more sound was coming out of the holes in the back of the speakers than was going into my ears! They were a waste of money which is a pity because until they broke the sound was better than cheaper, but longer lasting, headphones.

These headphones are a very basic "plug in" style earphones from Phillips. The item is available for around £10 on Amazon, which is just about as cheap as you can find a set of earphones in the plug style. The plug style earphone is slightly different to the traditional in-ear headphones as they are supplied with small rubber plugs, which literally plug into your ear. This style has a couple of major benefits, the main one I have found is that it is a lot easier to keep them in your ear. I have always found it very frustrating with the original style of earphones falling out of my ear as soon as I did anything that involved moving slightly, like ...  Read the complete review

Just bought this nice looking pair of earphones for my girlfriend who is not really picky on the sound but for my (and hers) disapointment they sound terrible, not even close to the cheapless earphones on the market. The sound reproduction is missing some (or all!) high frequencies and the end result resembles a crappy mp3 song with restricted sampling below 22khz...kind of like you listen to your CDs but they sound like an online radio with the lowest quality possible. These are my worst spent 13 EUR ever so ...  Read the complete review