Clear Sound, Bad Everything Else.
352143
The best thing about these headphones is that you can hear most of the sounds that each song you listen to is made up of. The bad things are that the headphones hurt the ear canal and there is virtually no bass. Even after I made a tight fit between my ears and the headphones, there was no bass to speak of. People who don't like bass, these are the headphones for you; they are clear and have a microphone.
3427264
This is for people that want sound quality headphones and that are loud. And I'm sorry to say,but these are really bad in sound and open back headphones like these are horrible cause you can hear the background noise like fans etc that are in the room. Fps players looking for loud boomy crystal clear headsets. Please look somewhere else. I recommend getting the vmoda m100
692820
Hooked it up and immediately heard the static mentioned by other reviewers.  Pretty @#%! bad, and certainly not subtle.  Sprayed the connectors that plug into the woofer with contact cleaner and the problem went away.  No problem after one year.

Without iTunes equalization, it sounds pretty bad - boomy bass and the rest a muddled mess.  But after an hour of fiddling, using a variety of songs and types of music, I got it to sound pretty good.  Not as good as a similar Creative brand system (no longer available) I have in another room, but good enough to keep them.

With the EQ:  The bass is actually very good; it just requires a little level adjustment once in a while.  The tonal balance is pretty good, but equalization can't do anything about poor transient response and dispersion.  I admit to being a recovered audiopile and realize that these comments may sound harsh for a system of this cost.  But I really wish I could get another of those Creative systems, or had bought two as I initially considered.  Asi es la vida....
3154153
The sound quality out of the box is really bad. It sounds somewhat tinny, but it does have good enough bass response such that it can be fixed with an equalizer or bass booster. But the main issue that still remains is that everything sounds kind of hollow, like maybe the polarity is reversed on one of the speakers, and that messes with the brain's perception of the sound (just speculating). I don't have enough expertise to know what to call this kind of sound or what's causing it, but I just know that it's wrong.

My last two sets of earbuds were from Sony and were of the same design (at least aesthetically) and they had absolutely excellent sound quality, so when I ordered these it was because I wanted to replace the old ones that I broke, and to have an inline microphone was a plus. A lot of the reviews mention that the speakers break after normal use, I haven't been using mine long enough for them to break, but I likely won't be using them for that long anyway.

It comes with a 90 day warranty, but for me, I don't think the effort to follow up on it is worth it. I'll just try to find something better.
379693
If you're concerned at all with audio clarity do not buy this. This thing is so sensitive to EMI, it makes everything sound like you're listening on a badly tuned shortwave radio.
2997209
Maybe it was a bad unit but any podcast or song i tried sounded distorted or muffled.
4754295
Sound quality is unmusical, and horribly unbearable.
4286885
Installed in boat sounded horrible like the speakers were blown, so I bought new speakers thinking that's what the issue was and the same results. Took that stereo out and installed a better brand for $30 more. Much better.
2324087
I am sorry to say, there was a lot of noise in the audio with these speakers.  Check out the Behringer MS40 speakers instead.  They are crystal clear.
4849184
Sounds good for games, you can definitely hear things coming up behind you which means they'er not going to take you by surprise.
Not as good for movies but still works. Total crap for music sounds very muddy.
3908795
Problems from the get go.

The power they required was crazy, I kept getting surge warnings from my usb ports, and my friends had the same issue when i plugged them in.

The bass was 0 or sounded like a tiny speaker being asked to deliver concert bass, just sucked. 0 bottom end.

surround sound sounded like it was always on and when you toggled it on it was like infinite duplication.

The mids were muddy and lacked focus. the highs were tinny and super faint. my buddy said i was crazy and just not used to surround and he tried them on..... within 10 seconds of me playing BF4 he took them off and apologized for calling me nuts.

His surround headphones sounded amazing but this set was just awful.

On the upside the msi light control worked great and was impressive.... so it was colorful garbage.

Sorry MSI, stick to non-usb
159435
Great picture, but I can't figure out what's up with the sound quality. It's total crap from some inputs. Luckily, we have external amp/speakers and just run most audio straight to those without going through the TV.
1054469
As easy as this is to install.. it's just not clear. It sounds terrible. I've tried multiple blue tooth stacks, including the one that comes directly from this manufacturer, and it's just not clear. There's just always a fine layer of static, or crackling. It's not even worth the small amount I paid for it. I had to leave this review because I'm just over using it. I just unplugged mine from my desktop, and have switched to using the build in blue tooth on my Mac Book Pro, which is producing crystal clear music on my sound bar now. Seriously be careful, I'm sure there are better bluetooth solutions out there. This one just didn't stack up.

(This is on a Windows 7 Pro desktop).

Thanks anyway SoundBot.
44137
I have 2 sets of these in my jeep. One in the dash and one in the rollbar. They were good and had crystal clear sound for a few months, but now they suck. I can hear white noise all the time, even when im playing music. They aren't as clear as they were. And they sound like they're about to blow. Scratch Kicker, Im going JL now.
2773603
They isolate pretty well, but the speakers sound so terrible you might as well just wear earplugs instead. There's a significant rolloff starting at something like 700hz, they sound very muffled. I tried two separate pairs, exactly the same bad sound.
3292096
Stereo sounded worse after I used it. Trust the negative reviews as my end result had way too much treble.
1573738
Terrible sound quality - sounds like I'm underwater.