The Mac Airpod Destroyers
589359
Want headphones that sound awesome, are as comfortable as having clouds on your ears, and will never brake? Then Buy these and stop looking. I've had them all 400 $ pairs and 5 $ dollar pair headphones. HELL, Ive even put one of each cuz Im silly like that.

All i can say is thay these headphones are indestructable and so comfortable you forget you have them on. The middle disconnect feature ensures you won't rip them when its Sunday and you decide you've grown tired of having a horrible looking lawn and decide to do something about it.

In the gym, when you are checking out that hottie and accidently wrap them around the trap bar, the quick disconnect feature will save you.

Dont buy into the gimmicks and snappy celebrity branding. Buy these headphones and feel certain you have bought the best.
2807186
I have had it with ear buds that constantly fall out! Apple basically Sennheiser (newer models) better sound with metal scrapping my ears does not cut it. Great value and fabulous design
2574557
Apple needs to understand that their iPods' designs are flawed.  If you want to spend this much money, get a different brand altogether. **BUGS** The Windows version of MusicMatch Jukebox that comes with the iPod is loaded with bugs.  In fact, one in particular is really irritating-- the program will actually "chop off" a character from the tag of the mp3 name.  In short, your song by "Madonna" will become "Madonn" on the iPod.  It will cut off additional characters after you synchronize again, so then it may become "Madon" then "Mado", etc.  MANY PEOPLE have this problem-- read the postings on various online sites if you don't believe me.  PLUS, it doesn't just send the new songs to the iPod when it synchronizes, but it selectively deletes songs from the iPod and RECOPIES them.  What good is having an ultra-fast FireWire connection when it wants to copy 7 or 8 gigabytes to your iPod when all you have is one more song that you want to add to it?  The bugs in MusicMatch are intolerable, but MusicMatch has fixed them and posted a free upgrade to their website.  BUT, Apple uses some kind of proprietary version of MusicMatch, so if you use the update to fix the bug then it WILL NOT WORK WITH YOUR iPOD, and you have to reinstall all the software that came with the iPod again!  **POOR DISPLAY**  The iPod's illuminated display makes the text almost impossible to see if it comes on during the day.  To turn the light off, you have to go through a bunch of options on the iPod to turn it off and on each time.  Plus, if it's cold outside and you use this in your car, then the display is especially difficult to see when the light is on even at night.  **BATTERY LIFE**  Apple claims 10 hours.  If you're lucky, you'll get 5 or 6.  And, if you don't use the unit overnight (i.e. leave it in your car), then it loses a lot of charge.  I would typically get only 2 hours of use out of it, only because I wasn't using it for 12 hours.  I've read postings that it is because of Apple's new firmware upgrade that forces the battery to constantly drain, even when not in use.  OH, and by the way, you cannot change the battery, so if the battery goes dead, you'll have to pay Apple a bunch of money to replace it.  To sum it all up, the Apple iPod has many design flaws, simple as that.  design flaws in their previous versions in an attempt to get people to waste their money on more of their products and hope that they don't wise up and take them back to the store.  Admittedly, it would be a great device if the battery life was better, and if Apple actually bothered to test the software before selling it to the unsuspecting consumer.
351662
Pros: great design (I've got the black on black special edition) and great sound
Cons: it's pain in the neck to use its AirPlay. Here are three annoying persistent problems:

1. 50/50 chance that my iPhone will pick up a signal from the A8. Almost every second time I would struggle to find the A8 in my iPhone's AirPlay section. So I have to dance around, literally around, the A8 holding the iPhone in my hands and patiently anticipate an appearance of the A8's sign. Not fun. Especially when you are entertaining your friends at home.

2. Even if I managed to pick up a signal it's still not guarantied that my iPhone will pair to the A8. It takes approximately 3-5 attempts. After every attempt my iPhone would fail to put music through the A8 and start playing sound through itself. Annoying.

3. Also there is a consistent problem with dropping sound in the A8. This problem seldom occurs, but it occurs. Though as specialists say the problem with dropping sound might be due to a slow WiFi router you use in your apartment and is possible to be solved by switching to a faster WiFi router. I've never tried it as my WiFi router is very fast and I simply don't trust this solution. I do nothing about this because as I said it happens not so often.

Overall: for $1 000+ I would consider something else.

Thank you very much.
4796608
As soon as I plugged these headphones into my iPhone 6, they started triggering Siri. This is a serious defect, because it makes it impossible to listen to music (or do much of anything else with the phone, honestly.)

I checked reviews on Amazon, and it looks like my problem is not unique. Several other reviewers reported having issues with this unit causing Siri to continuously open. It appears that this may have started when iOS 7 dropped, based on what other reviewers have noted.

If you are not planning to use these with an iPhone, you may have better luck. The unit I received came with a carrying case and several different sizes of ear buds, which should accommodate many different ear shape/sizes.  The remote seemed kind of flimsy, but you get what you pay for.
1068665
I'm not a music snob or anything, but these are the worst I've ever had. Their sound is nowhere near comparable to the stock earpods you get from Apple, but it's not bad, 3 star worthy.

However, it's only a 1 star because it screws up your music. Out of nowhere, the music will speed up, skip around, turn Siri on, and eventually crash the music player.
383636
Well, seeing the decent reviews of this productand trusting the Sony brandI thought I'd give them a shot. Mistake. I thought I was plugging them in incorrectly or something. Nope: the problem is that there is no bass response in these earbuds. I switched them back and forth between the Apple EarPods and there is NO comparison. The EarPods blow them away.

I can't wear the "in ear" type earphones that plug the canal (too dangerous for me to block out all external sound), so I guess I'll spend the thirty bucks for the real Apple deal. Maybe there's a similarly performing non-Apple product around the fifteen or twenty range? Anyway, do yourself a favor and skip these if you care at all about hearing the lower half of your music. If you only listen to lectures and don't care about natural sound, maybe you'll be fine.
1537634
As a long time iPod owner and a former JBL owner I was disappointed to read all these negative reviews. I really wanted to buy this piece for myself. Let me repeat that, I DO NOT OWN THIS UNIT.
That said, I wouldn't necessarily blame JBL for the compatibility issues with the iTouch and the iPhone. I think this is a failure of Apple. They changed the majority of their output settings with this last couple of generations. An example would be the change in the video standard output by the itouch, iphone and iPod classic. . . None of these will work with 5th generation iPod video cables.
I think there is more here than JBL getting sloppy. I don't believe JBL would be this sloppy. I believe they trusted Apple to deliver and this is a failure of Apple.
Just my two cents though.
529669
Great sounding speaker! The hoops to jump through to play music through Mac is horrible; tempted to return. Relying on playing music through iPad for now.
3182548
Apple Airport Extreme Base Station + Apple Mac= made for each other!
2722764
They have awful sound quality. You are better off with spray painting the original apple headphones the color of your choice. There is no low end and no mids. It's all high pitch treble.
1971513
This is a fantastic piece of gear if you're running the following:

1. Windows. Driver issues sound like they've been resolved. There are many bad reviews on the unit due to early problems here.

2. Mac OSX Tiger.

If you plan to run this on Leopard or Snow Leopard, be aware that there is an issue with the new Apple Firewire Audio driver that will cause you to get clicks and pops in your audio like crazy. These operating systems have been out for years, and there is still no fix from Mackie or from Apple. Both companies want to blame the other, and you know what that means- this is never going to get fixed. I bought one of these 9 months ago and have tried literally everything under the sun to fix the issues. I've rolled back the firewire driver to 2.01. Then to 1.2.2, which was the driver under Tiger OS 10.4. Nothing works, and I'm finally giving up and selling it to a Windows user.
2840154
Amp sounds great is very portable but the use of the i-cube link is pointless it's the most annoying thing is that it will only play songs downloaded through iCloud. It would be much easier to find two separate devices to; one to play the normal background track and another to record... Don't count on the app. Roland, if you want customers to be excited after purchase as much as after the ads then figure out a way to get rid of all the restrictions! I'm sure it's not easy but you sure got my hopes up with the great ads. And whoever comes up with a solution to that will have a real game changer.
636336
I bought this unit to stream audio content from my computer wirelessly to my stereo.  As sold, this unit will only stream audio via Itunes.  If you want to stream audio from Pandora or other websites not accessible via Itunes, you will need to purchase a third-party software package called Airfoil for $25.  I did so, and it works well and now I can stream any audio I want to my stereo from my computer.  Shame on Apple for not including software similar to Airfoil along with Airport Express.  The Airport Express hardware is not fully functional without the Airfoil software.  I strongly suggest to Apple that they either license Airfoil and include it with Airport Express, or that they write their own version of Airfoil.  How could Apple overlook such an essential piece of software for their product?
687128
I was gifted one of these a few years ago. Not one to turn down a free gift, I settled for it. I wanted something withmore storage & seperate buttons for everything.

The only pro to ipods that aren't Touches are that they come with onboard memory to you don't need to buy a rediculously overpriced micro SD card to jam into it. Their single-button design is not user-friendly, & even after a year I kept accidently turning up/down the volume, stopping, skipping, etc. never feeling like I had any real control over the device, thinking it was the worst designed thing Apple made since their buttonless mouse.

The audio is very tinny, & no matter what sound setting I chose, the bass was always crackly & the vocals were washed out by everything else.

Before replacing this with a Sony Walkman mp3 player, this puppy was having all kinds of problems, like endless rebooting loops, battery reading low after charging for hours, battery dykng after 3 hours of use, battery draining by large quantities when skipping or fast forwarding, static electricity, & finally the thing just came apart at the seams, like skin sliding of the carcass of a zombie.
4723349
synced fine, fully charged, played some music over my iPhone and literally laughed out loud at how bad the music quality is. You think stock apple earbuds are bad? These headphones sound like you are holding two toy speakers up to your ears. I'm not even sure they put out true stereo sound. Sending these back asap, don't be fooled by the identical design of these headphones compared to others. I bought these because I had an old pair of Arctic P311s ( I think that is the model ) that looked identical to these and sounded amazing, these are not the same by far.
3379581
So after getting over the disappointment of a non-existent audio input on my new Mac Pro, I ordered this dongle so I could continue my mic work. Plugged it in and it recognized / installed no problem. But after a while, the audio quality just went downhill.

Doing IT for a living, I swapped out my mic for a second one. Then a third one. Each one did the same exact thing - audio was good and then it just started becoming more and more terrible.

Step two: I decided to use a different port as sometimes one port is just a plain out grumpy with dongles. The good news is that the declining problem was solved. The bad news is that it was solved by perpetually being terrible.

Step three: I decided to use a totally different machine. Actually, I used three different machines: 2 x 2014 rMBPs and 1 x 2014 Dell XPS. Same result, except it was worse than before.

I've ordered enough tech stuff to know that sometimes, you just get the bad apple. The initial 4 hours of use were a gem. But when it started to go down hill, it became useless. The seller shipped MAD quick, though. Got it way ahead of schedule so no fault with them. I just think I got the lone bad product of the current batch.