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I bought these because I was getting bored with my American Audio EB900's which cost $180 when I purchased them. I just got them today, and I must say that I am very pleased with there sound. There is plenty of deep bass but it does not overwhelm the mids or the highs. Everything is smooth and balanced and nothing is over-powering. For those bass lovers out there let me just say now that bass is not everything, and you wont get the fullest out of your music with over-powering bass. So get these, and do it fast, because you wont be dissapointed. They are very comfortable and the cable is made of a durable rope like material. There are 8 inter-changeble earbuds to ensure the securest fit in your ear. Oh, and when you buy these and get them please do the common courtesy of reviewing them like I did. Great Value, Great Sound, Great Buy. Nuff Said.

I bought these phones 1 month ago. They had been making good sound since then, so I reviewed here.
Description: In ear headphones with hard plastic enclosure and gold accents, a logo (ALTEC)written over each piece, 4 pairs of white tips that do not resemble the traslucent ones in the advertisement, one of them are of the flanged type, the rest are small, medium and large tips. A shoe-lace type cord, of very good quality, grey, with equal lenght at each end of the phones, with an slider guide to adjust the cord in the last feet or so. The mini-plug looks like gold-plated, of the straight variety. A soft grey carry bag, also with the logo Altec Lansing, very useful to carry the phones and maybe an Ipod shuffle too.
Use: the mini plug fits easily in my Mp3 player. The tips are of good lenght to let the phones snug tightly in the ear canal, the cord is very very noisy, specially in the last two feet, where every touch or rub against you or your clothes send bumps to the phones. The phones do not fall easily because are very light.
Sound: these phones have decent, extended, articulated bass, which improves with the right eartip size. Try all of them before choosing the one you'll use, it's a mandatory test to obtain more extended bass and noise rejection from the outside, but do not expect lots of bass: these are more than enough to satisfy all users except hip-hop and electronic music lovers. The mids is where these phones really shine: liquid, tactile, natural, neutral. And the highs is where they really fall short of more expensive phones: At first they sound crispy and brilliant, but after few minutes of use you'll discover that they are forward, grainy, and sometimes produce harsh sound, if you have an equalizer in your player turn down the 4khz and above bands to obtain a more relaxed and natural sound, otherwise you will end up with hearing fatigue. Thinking it was my mp3 player, I tried them with my hi-end cd player, obtaining the same results.
Comparisons: against the stock phones of my mp3 player, is a no contest situation: always change the stock phones, otherwise you'll not enjoy any resemblance of good sound. More enlightening was the comparison agaisnt the similarly priced Sennheiser CX400: the Altec Lansing are a better product in quality of materials, cable (cloth vs. plastic), the tips have more stiffness than the ones of the Sennheisers (keeping the phones in place), and in the sound department the Backbeats have better and more robust bass, same midrange sound but with less agressive highs, more extended and defined. To my surprise, this was also a no contest.
Conclusions: these are one of the best values in its price range, you can find better sound spending a lot more money. Good fit and finish (although the traslucent tips looks more gorgeous), very good sound, Amazon price outstanding. Go ahead, you will not be dissapointed.

I was looking for some earphones that would stay in while jogging. These do the trick. AND they have a heavier cord - covered with a synthetic cloth - looks like it will resist wear and tear much better than the ones that came with my iPod. Sound is good, too. Comes with different silicone buds for different ear sizes.

full sound. the only time I heard the "cloth cable rubbing noise" was when I had textured collar for the cable to rub against, and even then it wasn't overbearing. These rival the FMJ by skullcandy in tone, which I also own.... If these had the casing around the cable like the skullcandy earbuds I would have given them a 5 star rating. A great value that you cannot go wrong with at this price!

It blocks out pretty much everything that i need, if not then i can turn up my music to like, halfway, and everything would be fine. Only problem is that the buds might get uncomfortable but that might be just the ones i am using.
There is the problem out the cloth covered cord though, it does make noise when it rubs against something, but really, it doesn't happen that often and i am used to it by now.