Sennheiser CX 300 II

SAM81 · 4 Sep 2011 at 16:28

Just picked up a pair of these. To be honest I am coming from a £10 pair of JVC so anything was going to be a step up but these things sound awesome for £25.

Anyone else got them? If your running the standard earphones that came with your mp3 player/phone I strongly recommend upgrading to a pair.

extinct · 4 Sep 2011 at 16:30

They are £13.65 on Amazon

DarkBahamut · 4 Sep 2011 at 16:42

extinct said:
They are £13.65 on Amazon

From Amazon direct or do you mean the fakes from the marketplace?

SAM81 · 4 Sep 2011 at 17:51

Yeah I read that a lot of places online are selling fakes.

Beerbaron · 4 Sep 2011 at 17:55

I have a pair of these and are great. I paid way less than that for mine 2+ years ago

Rroff · 4 Sep 2011 at 17:55

If they sound awesome they are probably not fakes

Thats the problem with buying Sennheiser

almost anywhere "reasonably" priced is probably fake, not always knowingly by the seller.

Love my Streetwear MX400s only £20 but sound amazing.

SAM81 · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:22

To be honest they were a bit of an impulse buy. The missus was in homebase so I thought I would just pop into a high street electrical store to have a look. Found these, checked a couple of online review and google prices to make sure I wasn't being ripped off and got them. Mega happy - although it makes you wonder what really expensive ones sound like...

Rroff · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:29

At that driver size not a massive jump really from a good quality set of senns. Talking proper headphones with ~40-60mm drivers tho and theres a big jump in quality the more you pay

xb8browney · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:31

I've had about 5 pairs of these over the years....Got sick of the fakes out their so moved to the klipsch X1's now.

titaniumx3 · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:21

Some of the Sennheiser fakes out there are pretty convincing and very difficulty to tell apart. There's a post on Head-fi about a particular Sennheiser IE8 fake, which is virtually the same, apart from the sound and a few tiny cosmetic changes.

Rroff · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:23

They are pretty easy to tell sound quality wise once you've heard real ones - the fakes actually aren't terrible bad SQ wise but very average SQ.

dante6491 · 5 Sep 2011 at 00:14

Rroff said:
They are pretty easy to tell sound quality wise once you've heard real ones - the fakes actually aren't terrible bad SQ wise but very average SQ.

Indeed my fake CX500's were by no means bad. Better than the standard iPod/phone ones anyway. Changed them to the RHA MA-350, which are a similar price to the CX300's and the difference is like night and day.