JBuds Hi-Fi Noise-Reducing Ear Buds (Black) by JLAB
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Digital camera reviews of JBuds Hi-Fi Noise-Reducing Ear Buds (Black)
Digital camera Review: Almost Great
Summary: 4 Stars
Besides the earbuds that are included with these earphones, I would love them. They look cool and perform pretty nicely too. Earbuds are exchangable so this is not a big problem and will differ from person to person, but with any earphone set like this, you need to get a good seal around your ears to get that full sound you want. Not the most base and not the most treble out there, but great all around set.Digital camera Review: Almost perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
The other reviews are accurate. I would add that this would be the perfect set if it had in-line volume control.Digital camera Review: Almost perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this ear buds couple of weeks ago and thay are great,
thay fit well and because of noise reducting propertice I can decrease
the volume 25%. They can save a lot of power and they give crisp sound.
The only thing is that the cable is not soft and it jumps when you run
which create knocking sound but you can easly do something about it.
Really good for the cheap ones.
You can use them with whatever player, of course.
I hope they will last couple of years ;-)))
Digital camera Review: Alright for the price, I guess...
Summary: 3 Stars
PROS:
-Affordable price
-An easy find
-Gets you by if you're going on vacation for a week
-Well it's good at noise canceling, there's one thing
CONS:
-Sound quality is unfortunately weak; most of the songs have a muffled sound to them, which is a personal pet peeve of mine.
-The cord is VERY cheap. It was starting to lose the rubber coating after a week.
-Also, the rubber tips come off very easily. One time it got stuck in my ear.
-Be warned, their replacement policy is a pain too. The second pair I got was just like the previous,
Cons aside it's still not bad, but there are worthier buds out there, and I guess this was alright for its price.
Digital camera Review: Also Good: Minimalist Packaging
Summary: 5 Stars
Plenty of other folks have mentioned these are great earbuds.
The squidgy silicon caps are incredibly comfortable for most of us, but it is quite understandable that they simply don't work for others. Luckily, they're cheap enough (for most of us) that it is worthwhile to purchase a pair to check out the comfort and fit.
But what I was especially pleased by was the packaging.
Earbuds wear out--at least for me, they do. I sometimes put 'em in a pocket and that wears out the connection right next to the plug, so I'm happy if they last six months. I just purchased to inexpensive pairs of earbuds here, these JBuds Hi-Fi Noise-Reducing Ear Buds (Black) and some Sony MDR-ED21LP Fontopia In-The-Ear Headphones.
The JBuds came in a small zip-lock bag with a single piece of folded paperboard packaging. (Their text: "JLab believes in being eco-friendly. This minimalistic packaging reduces waste.") Small enough that Amazon shipped it in a bubble-wrap envelope.
The Sonys, in contrast, are in a hard blister pack--not quite as nasty as the impossible-to-cut plastic, but of the same ilk. The plastic is glued to paperboard backing, so the latter cannot be cleanly separated for recycling. Inside is more packaging paperboard and some inserts, as well as an astonishingly superfluous vinyl drawstring carrying case for the earbuds. I've already got two or three of those sitting in a drawer somewhere; I've never met anyone that takes off their earbuds and stows them in one of these things. I'd be quite interested to hear if anyone does--if you do, add a comment to my review. But I'm pretty sure that Sony is just being mindlessly wasteful, which isn't much of a surprise.
But what really galled was that Sony's packaging was big enough that Amazon couldn't use a bubblepack envelope, and so shipped in a box, which was almost as big as a shoebox and mostly wasted space full of packaging material. Why Amazon couldn't combine the two packages I don't know, but Sony is still on the hook here for their sins.
It helps that the JBuds are one-third cheaper than the Sonys, but both seem to change prices intermittently.
So: if you're just grabbing a pair of work-a-day earbuds and all else turned out to be pretty much equal, go for the JBuds. The company is more sensible about their packaging and deserves the business.