Pros:
Accurate Sound Output, Excellent Build Quality, Sound Quality Exceeds Price Tag
Cons:
N/A
As poker is the game of life to be played on the grandest stage, the Sony MDR-ZX100/BLK stereo headphones deliver a full house of concert sound performance. A chanteuse’s stunning nightclub performance. An aria with forceful impact. A piano concerto in full glory. A rock opera at its zenith. The Sony headphones provide spectacular sound for rock, opera, jazz, love songs, rhythm and blues, disco, bluegrass, hip-hop, club, dubstep, dance, trance, electronica, and classical music out of a small and lightweight frame. The neodymium drivers produce elegant vocals on Broadway musical soundtracks, lush background vocals on country music, and they offer superb midrange instrumental reproduction. Bass performance is articulate, clean, well-defined, and punchy on heavy metal music. Bass tracks associated with the present club music milieu are surprisingly good, demonstrating crisp response, without the traditional low end muddiness associated with other value priced headphone products. The Sony headphones provide a wide molded adjustable headband for maximum comfort, padded ear cushions for a snug fit over the ears, and large diameter stereo drivers for spacious sound effects on movies, music, or computer real-time strategy games. These Sony stereo headphones are so comfortable, that I tend to forget that I am wearing them within a truncated time span. The sonic depth of the Sony headphones offers all-encompassing warmth, nuance, detail, and realistic sound quality over the entire treble and midrange frequency spectrum. Rest assured that these Sony headphones offer aggressive low bass performance at the lowest ends of the earphone market price scale. Considering the extraordinary quality of sound reproduction that this product offers, this item competes very well against other more expensive bass focused headphone brands. Whether it’s for an iPod, iPod classic, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod touch, iPad, iPhone, iMac, Sony Walkman MP3 Player, Zune, Blu-ray player, shortwave radio, HD radio, internet radio, satellite radio boombox, portable cassette player, CD player, or the latest console game system, the Sony headphones reconstruct an accurate soundstage or virtual 3D battlefield to the delight of bass heavy music enthusiasts and dedicated gamers everywhere. I am unable to hear other outside distractions in my immediate surrounding environment when wearing the Sony headphones. Sound leakage is kept to a minimum thanks to the closed dynamic ear cup design. Primarily, I use the Sony MDR-ZX100 headphones with my Sony SRF-M37W Walkman to achieve perfect fidelity on FM music stations, natural voice tones on 24 hour/7 day AM sports talk radio stations, and super clear reception on Weather Band forecasts. The Sony MDR-ZX100 stereo headphones sport an attractive appearance with its lightweight over-the-ear design, quality construction, black ear cup exterior finish, and a 3.9 ft. dual-sided rugged Y-type cord. The Sony MDR-ZX100 stereo headphones feature excellent form, superb fitness for its intended outdoor use purposes, and perfect function for prolonged, enjoyable, and relaxed listening sessions. The high quality Sony headphones provide a 3.5mm (1/8”) silver-plated L-shaped stereo mini plug for distortion-free signal transfer, wonderful stereo channel separation in any music genre, and compatibility with the widest range of portable audio, video, MP3, computer, musical instrument, and home audio equipment possible. The Sony stereo headphones provide the following feature set for demanding portable audio enthusiasts: stereo reproduction, 30mm speaker drivers, slim swivel ear cups for increased mobility, pro DJ use, and remixing applications, high-energy neodymium magnets, black and red L/R ear cup placement marks, P.E.T. multi-layer dome diaphragm design for extended low bass response, pressure-relieving urethane leather ear cushions for long lasting comfort, copper-clad aluminum wire voice coil for exceptional power handling capacity, 1.2m lightweight tangle-resistant cord, supra-aural noise canceling ear pad passive design, 1000mW power handling capacity for stringent daily use that is designed to meet the requirements of music industry mavens, wide 12-22,000Hz frequency response for outstanding treble, midrange, and bass reproduction, 24 ohms at 1kHz impedance rating, 100db/mW sensitivity rating for excellent loudness output, a magnificent all black exterior finish, operating instructions, warranty card, and this unit's weight is 4.23 ounces (120 g). The Sony headphones come with a 90-day parts and labor limited manufacturer warranty. The Sony stereo headphones do not come with a carrying pouch, in-line volume control, or a unimatch stereo plug adapter for connection to a component stereo headphone jack. You will need a 1/8" to ¼" (3.5mm to 6.3mm) stereo headphone jack plug adapter to connect the Sony MDR-ZX100 headphones to a home stereo system. The headphones are compatible with any pocket radio's monaural earphone jack with the use of a 3.5mm monaural-to-stereo plug adapter. A headphone extension cord can be used with the Sony headphones to listen to a component stereo system from across the room, if desired. The Sony headphones are not compatible with any noise canceling system that is featured in select Sony Walkman Video MP3 players. So whether you’re sitting on a park bench solving the world’s problems, saving the solar system from interplanetary destruction at the hands of an invading alien army during a late night arcade gaming stint, walking in the street on a sunny southern California summer day with an iPod in hand, putting an album together in the studio, jamming out to some favorite tunes at home after a stressful day, want an affordable upgrade pair of cans for the pocket radio, or you are listening to morning drive AM talk radio on the bus ride to work, the Sony MDR-ZX100/BLK headphones are an incredible budget conscious choice for any private listening session need. Good Luck. Enjoy.
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