It’s hard now. I just need a pair of wired earbuds (not IEM’s! I don’t want to carry those around with me for washing dishes :p)

I bought a pair of what I thought were urBeats 3 on eBay which turned out to be counterfeit. Upon further research, those are quite rare to find brand new anyway, so that’s a bust.

I’m easily impressed. I’ll freely admit that. I just need something that’ll get the job done, but not sound like crap while their at it

  • handofdumbEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Lol i was about to recommend these KZ ZSR earbuds i got a while back! But then i looked up what IEMs are….

    Sorry i can’t be of much help! Fwiw, the KZ ZSRs arent like, prohibitively expensive, so i never worry about em when im doing dishes myself :) but they are just….bulkier and different than traditional earbuds.

    Im more of an on-ear kinda person, so i havent been using too many kinds of in-ears, and the in-ears i have tried have kinda sucked. I did used to use in-ears more like, 10 years ago but I’m sure the landscape of in-ears has changed since.

    Back in the day, i used to lose mine a lot so i bought cheap. Jlab would have sales quite often so i usually snagged a few pairs of whatever they had then. If i bought in-store, I’d buy….gummies? I think by JVC. Both Jlab and JVC seemed decent, with Jlab being preferred for sure. But they were also just cheap and easy to replace so that played a big part in it, lol.

    Good luck on your headphone quest!

  • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    These dumb things from Monoprice: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13801

    They’re super cheap so I’m never worried about anything happening to them. Build quality is good: I don’t know how long I’ve had min,e, but definitely since before the pandemic. The flat cable is nearly impossible to knot. The sound quality is certainly not audiophile level, but it’s not the terrible tinny mess you’d expect at that price point. It has a microphone built-in that I have never used. The metal bits can get cold so I usually hold them in my hands for a few seconds before putting them in.

    If in-ear isn’t a requirement, the Koss KSC75 is great. I was looking for something to wear while laying on my side, and I’m not a big fan of shoving things in my ears. For $20 the sound quality is waaaay better than I was expecting. These things are super comfortable.