Sennheiser's Style, Sport, and Street range of headphones

Sennheiser is set to drop 17 new headphone models (just a sample in that pic above) onto the world's ears next month spread across the new Style, Sport, and Street product lines. A select few of these units like the MX 90 VC (pictured) will flaunt a new twist-to-fit ear securing system which relies upon a small rubber "stopper" you can twist thereby securing the headphone to the outer ear. The Style range of headphones gun for optimum sound quality while remaining stylish and elegant via a "metal look" (and very German) design. The antithesis of the Style range must be the Sport range then, which dishes out a healthy slathering of neon "fresh" green knowing that jockos everywhere secretly long for the color palette of wee little girls. These headphones are designed with max comfort and secure fit in mind and rock regardless of rain, sweat or low temps... making them equally at home for postal delivery. Rounding things out is the Street line-up which conspicuously omits any old-school can designs but are said to be specially designed based on teenager feedback nevertheless. These headphones feature unusual design, secure fit, and practical accessories with plenty of bass for use with both MP3 players and gaming systems. Expect to see all the new skull candy in stores starting next month.

[Thanks, Dan F]

[Sennheiser Headphones @ Apr 14th 2006 8:38AM]

I had a chance to try the OMX 90 VC style and the sound quality is great. They are pretty stylish too. What are these likely to retail at?

[KorruptioN @ Apr 14th 2006 9:38AM]

I don't like how the mini-jack plug is on a 90� angle...

[Hardware Help @ Apr 14th 2006 9:58AM]

Is it just me or does anyone else hate in-ear headphones? Too uncomfortable. Not to mention the ear isn't exactly the cleanest of body parts, so why would you want to jam a gadget in there? A lot of people use them though. I guess it is just me.

[Cheese @ Apr 14th 2006 10:18AM]

#1: They look like at cheap copy of Bang&Olufsens portable headphones (http://www.playlist.com.au/images/A8-earphones.gif) But thats fine, it's a great way to design those headphones, especially for sports.

#3: It depends A LOT on how you are going to use them. I absolutely love in ear canal phones when i am in noisy enviorments (trains for instance). You are able to lock everything else out but music, it's great for relaxing. But if you have to take them in and out all the time it's a hell.

[Hitesh Sawlani (hitkaiser) @ Apr 14th 2006 10:29AM]

These are not in-ear!

Anyways, I do like these type of phones, have the good ol' sen mx300 and the pmx60, they are great. Probably pick one of these up, good thing about these entry level phones are their entry level price!

As for ear's not being clean etc... in-ear phones CAN be good, I myself use the shure e2, they are confortable once u put them, just jamming them in is sometimes a hassle.

[Dan Fishkin @ Apr 14th 2006 11:08AM]

AWESOME ENGADGET! you posted my tip!! anyways I have only heard great things about these headphones as well as sennheiser itself. and btw these headphones should be coming out in as soon as two weeks! (The customer service at sennheiser told me it should be coming out in the us in about a month 2 weeks ago)

[Michael @ Apr 14th 2006 2:26PM]

#2 - They put the plug on a 90 degree angle to reduce the chance of the wires breaking.

It's good to see someone invest some R&D in ear buds, with the advent of canal phones they're starting to be hard to come by.

[MinceyFresh @ Apr 14th 2006 2:37PM]

As wonderful as Sennheiser headphones are, I still wish that they'd integrate short-cords (with an included extension cable) for people who use in-line wired remotes (i.e. for most Japanese & Korean CD/MD players, PSP, iPod remote, etc)...

[Stevie K @ Apr 14th 2006 7:51PM]

NOTHING beats the Shure in-ear phones.

[andrew k. from AZ @ Apr 14th 2006 8:28PM]

The sport ones don't look that terrible, and if the numbering system is to be trusted, they may have the best audio quality. Also I liked the "water-resistant" and "washable" features of the sport phones. It would be nice if they offered them in, say, black, though.
I'm excited to see more competition in this area. I've been looking at a set of cheap, flexible phones and these may just do the trick.

[Matt Brydon @ Jul 12th 2006 3:03PM]

i just bought a pair of the sport mx 75 twist-to fit, i have for the past month or two been using an old pair of clasic grey sennheiser mx 450 and i have to say, when i compare the sports to these i am exceptionally dissapointed, the sound production is nowhere near the level of the clasic grey buds and the price is 3 times as much!, i seriously recomend not bothering!, get the cheeper ones, better quality, more volume and more bass!, needless to say i will be taking the sports back and changing them for a different model or brand!

[f38r1 @ Jan 22nd 2007 8:24AM]

Bought the MX 50 sport and broken in 3 weeks!

Replaced them with MX 450, and I was amazed how these earphones perform much better than the newer models.

I have no idea about other models, but for MX 50 and MX 450 head to head, I would prefer MX 450 for performance (MX 50 had a better look tho').

Anyone looking for 'around the ear' (sport/style) phones, I would recommend KOSS KSC75 for sure. For a much lower price, it has a great performance that can be matched to the legendary Sennheiser PX 100.