Sennheiser CX300-II or CX500?

Btw, where would anyone say is the best place to buy Sennheisers/similar earphones? Just looking at play.com now, cx-300 II for £15, is that the best there is?

Sorry meant to say MDR EX 500

they cost around 50-60 pounds which is far more expensive than cx30011/500, which are around 10-15 pounds on play.

They're about £45 on amazon and a good investment. You have to look at it beyond its price tag. The headphone is the most important thing you'll need (besides the mp3 ofcourse) and so you might as well buy something that will recreate the best possible sound and 45 quid isn't that much given how long they'll last you. The CX500 is too high and can get a bit painful at times, while the MDR EX500 is much warmer and fuller.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B001FWXELO/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_5?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addFiveStar

P/S when I first bought the CX500 they were about 40 quid on play.

I can't seem to find many MDR EX 500s around except for in the apple store, do you have any links to eshops which sell them?



That's a pretty good price tbh, link?

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/3509717/-/Product.html

found these just now too, think i'll go for these before they're gone, seems too cheap to be true

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/3509717/-/Product.html

found these just now too, think i'll go for these before they're gone, seems too cheap to be true

That's because it most likely IS too cheap to be true. There are a tremendous amount of fake CX series headphones out on the market, even on Play.com which is a generally reliable site. The average retail for a pair of CX500's is around £35 - £40, so I wouldn't recommend paying anything that's far below that, because it's most likely to be a fake.

Also someone said the CX-300's are essentially the same as the CX-500's, which isn't true. It's pretty widely accepted that the CX-500's are quite a lot better than the CX-300's. So I'd definitely recommend the CX-500's over the CX-300's.

Wish you'd said that like 2 hours ago, already clicked the Confirm Order button oh well, let's hope for the best

& I understand most probably are fake at that price, but I bought some cx300s on ebay a few months ago for £9, were real, so I guess I'm saying not all at cheap prices are, but let's hope my CX500s are real in 3-4 working days

You could always cancel your order if you only placed in 2 hours ago. It's up to you, I mean if you get them and they do turn out to be fakes (Apart from the bad sound quality, it can be hard to tell the fakes) then you could always try and return them, there is still the chance they could be genuine, it just seems a bit unlucky considering the retail price compared to this price and the amount of CX fakes around.

See, £9 on ebay for CX-300's I'd say are more likely to be real, mainly because you get a lot of people selling stuff on ebay that they got for birthdays etc that they have no use for and just sell them cheaply to get something back. Also, coupled with the fact that CX-300's retail for only like £20 anyway then it seems a bit more reasonable. Still, you should be careful when buying anything like this online, just do a bit of research to see if there are a lot of the item you're buying that are fakes and be cautious of where you buy them.

You probably bought seconds, they're technically the same thing but they get sold in bulk by the factory for cheap because of imperfections in the packaging. I ended up going for the CX500s, found a genuine cheap pair on eBay.

I think that's just it actually, as in the imperfections in the packaging, it said it would come with a cable winder (don't actually know what that is) but didn't but if I'm honest didn't cause too much despair without it,

How much were your ones on eBay?