Creative Labs WP-380 Wireless Bluetooth Headphones with Invisible Mic and NFC

I got these to replace my Miikey 'Rhythm' BT phones, which were about the same price, maybe a little more but not much. The Miikey's were mostly great, except that they had a stupid charging jack (uncommon tiny barrel plug, ugh, fie on thee!) and perhaps a few other little imperfect details here and there. Then they broke electronically and mechanically, so I looked around a lot and then ordered these Creatives, and btw, received a set that is obviously a return item, which is always worrisome with electronic gear that uses rechargeable batteries. As for the phones themselves, I'm not impressed. They're not very comfortable, like having two disks clamped to your head. Yeah, I could try to stretch them out, but then they won't seal to my ear as well. That might be fine in a quiet workplace, but I want them to block out noise and immerse me in a comfort zone of music so I can go to my happy place when I'm riding the train, walking around, biking (when in an environment that I can do this safely or on a trainer indoors), flying kites on the beach, whatever. I want to get in the zone with my tunes, you know?With these, there are several issues:They creak! The plastic joints make noise whenever I move.The discomfort mentioned above makes me want to take them off sooner rather than later. It's a distraction.Sound: The mid-range sounds harsh and grating to me, not conducive to my 'zone'.The controls are terrible! The track buttons are okay, but the volume buttons and multipurpose button are awful, and these are important to me. These buttons are connected on a single rounded sorta-triangular plate that rocks (tilts) as one piece. There are tiny raised icons for each function that are really difficult to find and discern because they are sooo tiny and are placed between two plastic edges. And the tilting motion is not clean and discrete (i.e. limited to just the motion in the three button directions), but rather it flexes anywhere you push it, such as on the rounded corners between buttons. It's awful, a terrible design! Forget about using this with even the thinnest of gloves. The button action (depth of movement when you press it) is very slight and the moving part you push on is set inside an unmoving ridge around the rocker part, so when you try to push the button, your tactile feedback (fingertip sensation) is dominated by this big corner/ridge that doesn't move while your fingertip digs around trying to find the part that's moving (barely) under your smushy finger pad. And because it's a big rounded triangle with a big semicircular hinge piece around it (the silver part), when you reach up to touch the buttons, your hand feels a big round hinge piece and then has to find a rounded triangle thing within that somewhere, and then feel around that roundish, triangulish thing to figure out where the buttons might be, and it's not like they're just on the top and bottom or front and rear, so you could quickly orient yourself, they're set back from the center (the volume buttons in this case) above and below each other somewhere on the rear edge of that trianguly thing inside the big round hinge thing, and tilted at opposite angles. So I find it hard to orient quickly and find the buttons when I need them. But wait it gets worse: there is a delayed response with every button press, much longer than with my previous BT headphones. So on top of being confused whether I have found the right button and successfully pressed it or not, there is a pause before anything happens. "Did I press it? I thought I pressed it. Oh wait, yeah, there it goes. Oh crap I pressed it twice and now it's off again."Not to mention both sides of the headphone are shaped exactly the same, so if I happen to put them on with left/right sides reversed, my hand is up there trying to find the micro-sub-braille button icons, rubbing around on the damn thing like a genie in a bottle until I figure out they're not even there. Does the manufacturer not understand that a headphone button is something you cannot see while using it???Normally I listen to music via my phone, but I have found that when I pull out my phone and wake the screen, the music skips.I would characterize the overall build quality as cheap and the design as ugly. The big hinge piece on each side is a molded plastic part that is hollow and open on one side with the wires showing (they're just sort of stuffed in there). It has casting seams visible, and is painted a tacky silver color that chips off easily. So it looks exactly like a piece of a cheap plastic kids' toy. On the outside of each earpiece at the center is a glossy, soft plastic face that already has scratches on it right out of the box. Above the big silver hinge thing is more of this shiny plastic that scratches easily and looks tacky to boot.The Speakers: I notice that my previous Miikey headphones were the same overall size but had 40mm drivers, while these only have 34's. Of course there is a lot more to speaker quality than diameter, but in a side-by-side comparison, the 40mm Miikeys sound a lot better to me. As in 'ahh, music, rich, nice, I feel good' (the Miikeys) vs 'music, it's on. oh, this song sounds pretty good, but aah! this song I normally like is grating on me, ugh where is the volume button, where is the firiggin volume button?!!?#%!!! Did I press it yet?' And of course there's that plastic creaking whenever I move my head, which kinda makes the whole speaker quality thing moot.Another small interesting point I noticed about the design, regarding the L/R thing, they made these things so the cups turn 90 degrees to fold flat, right? fine. The natural, easy way to put on the headphones would be to hold them with the open cups facing you and then twist them slightly as they slide onto your head. But interestingly, they chose to make them in exactly the opposite of the natural direction for use, and they actually had to make them rotate a bit more than 90 degrees to compensate for this. With these, you have to grasp them with the cups facing away from you and then twist them so the cups face inward, and just a little past that til they won't go any farther, and hold them in that position under tension while you put them on, and all the while they want to flip back around and face away from you again. So you have to maintain the twist on them until they are seated on your ears. Think I'm crazy? Try it a few times. One way you have to grip, twist, and hold the earcups while trying to get them seated on your ears. The other way, with left and right reversed, you can put them on without even holding onto the ear cups at all. You can grip them by the head band and slide them right onto your ears. Switch back and try to do this the 'right' way, holding only the band. It's like an idiotic exercise. They hang up on your face and ears and flip away the wrong direction. It's like the designers just don't care.

I'm editing this review to reflect time spent with these headphones. I previously disagreed strongly with lance gross' review because I felt like he was way off base on sound quality. Now I realized it was probably the selection of music he sampled. As the product listing subtlety states, these phones are great with dance music as well as pop. Really they sound great with .ost music. Rock and metal is the exception here, but most headphones will suffer in certain areas. As some other reviewers mention, it seems like they just pumped up the low end. The bass can at times be muddy and distort, and while you do get some decent low end, it can be at the expense of the mids and highs. Depending on what type of music you're listening to it might not be too bad but you get the feeling that they wanted to emphasize the low end. It's not really tight or punchy. I wrestled with a four or three star rating because the headphones have some redeeming qualities but overall, at least for me, audio quality comes first and imo at this price range these just don't cut it. Comparing these to my ath m50's, which sadly I've heard people do, the bass isn't as tight, the mids and highs not as clean. Comparing to my monoprice 8323's, which actually are comparable to the m50's, the bass was actually heavier but as stated not as tight or punchy but more of a muddy, distorted. Compared to my motorola s305's which have virtually no low end to speak of, these sound slightly better overall. It's not that they sound bad, they're actually pretty decent for bluetooth headphones but I expected more considering the inclusion of apt x and the price. I'd absolutely keep them if they weren't so uncomfortable. Music lovers should look elsewhere because you won't be able to wear these for long periods of time, especially glasses wearers. Battery life is great. I tested and get about 13 hours between charges, more than the rated amount. I'd probably keep them if they weren't so uncomfortable. I can't wear them for more than 30 minutes without being in pain. Guess I'll have to keep looking.The Good-Decent sound for bluetoothWired or wirelessBattery lifeKeep a good connection. Didn't experience any drop outs except at the high end of range (about 25 feet through walls)Pairs quickly and easily. Much faster and reliable than Motorola S305.The Bad-Low end can be too much and distort the musicMajor uncomfortable. I tried stretching them over a pillow a few times as suggested but they're still bad.No noticeable difference between wired and wireless, and is apt x really doing anything?Volume doesn't stay at same level after powering off, when powering back on and pairing, volume will be at max level which can be really annoying if you forget and the first track starts off loud. Yet another preventable problem Creative.Lag when using track buttons (very annoying) but not volumeButtons are small, hard to find and not intuitively placed on the headset.Uses 2.5 to 3.5 cable.Ahh yes the creaking. Not too bad when stationary but annoying when moving around such as walking or exercising.Durability questionable. Other reviewers have experienced breakage. Doesn't inspire confidence for long term ownership.Double tapping the play button, a voice comes up and tells you the battery life. At first I thought this was cool. However I checked last night and it said 20 percent, didn't recharge, next morning checked and it said 50 percent. Checked multiple times and it said 50 percent. Ten minutes later after listening to music and it's back to twenty percent. So clearly this is a gimmick. Fail.Price. Make these around $50 and then it'd be worth it.

Super headphones sounds similar to audiotechnica wired

Sound is ok but the overall quality is not!

Sound quality and features were extremely good for the price. On wire, these sound even better than my Bose AE and comparable to the Bose QC15. I would love to keep these except for one huge downside: they can get very uncomfortable after an hour or two of wear. On bluetooth, it sound quality is very dependent on the codec used over bluetooth. My computer and phone does not support APTX, but my laptop does and it definitely improve the sound quality. I was unaware of the bluetooth standard that require both a supporting headset and computer to use APTX.Good:- Excellent sound quality- Inexpensive- Bluetooth connection- Long battery lifeBad:- Uncomfortable after a few hours of wear.

I am always surprised at the cost of reasonable headphones. These are quite good in terms of sound quality, noise exclusion and comfort. They also offer very good battery life. This is the third pair I have bought. The other two failed in the same way. They break where the metal hinge attaches to the plastic headband. This occurs through ordinary use.

Love them! Great sound! The vocals are amazing, good bass and very rich sound. Great battery life! Blocks noise very well! Crazy fast shipping! They are a bit tight on the head at first....