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12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Pretty Good for the PriceNov 08, 2006
By Guanxiong Mao
"Gman"
These are fully circumaural headphones, and as a result, they look abnormally large and bulky. The headphones are decently comfortable, although, again because of the circumaural design, use for over 2-3 hours leads to sweaty ears (didn't think ears sweat, did you!). The sound isolation is subpar and little compared to really good full size headphones like...say the sennheiser hd280 pro or bose triport. However, since effective sound isolation is a difficult task to pull off, better isolation usually translates to a big price jump, unless it uses noise cancellation, which is just an annoyance (I've owned 2 already). The sound is pretty good with decent bass. Overall, a n averge full sized headphone, but still deserves 4 stars because, well it cost 6 dollars.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Good, affordable choice.Dec 28, 2008
By Will
I use these mainly while playing the drums to cancel out some of the sound, and they do a good job, especially for the price. They could be better, but for an amateur, they get the job done. They are bulky, though, so I just them in the house. I can hear more with them than with ear-bud styles, which is great if you're at home.
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 My husband loves these headphones.Sep 09, 2007
By Pittle
I bought these for my husband to listen to Bible CD's that I loaded onto our iPod. He has some hearing loss in one ear and with the regular earbuds he could only hear in his good ear. With these headphones, he can hear in both ears and he really likes that. They sound pretty good with music, but are great with the book format. I personally do not care for the large around the ear sytle headphones, but he does not mind them and says that outside factors are less distracting to him when he has these on. He did not care for the earbud style headphones. The price was amazingly low and they work for our needs.
8 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Better than most headphones many times the price!Sep 09, 2009
By D. Roman
I have owned many different pairs of headphones over the years, and generally speaking...I have had more letdowns than positives with them, with many pairs only lasting a few short months before falling apart. Not so with the Coby CV320, which I bought almost 4 years ago, and still functions today.You have no idea how many times I have accidentially dropped these headphones, and they just kept working,thanks to the quality materials used, so you don't have to worry about the headphones falling apart on you. Durability isn't the only thing going for the CV320, but you also have an extremely full bass sound, which just may be the best sounding pair of headphones that I have owned to date, including some pairs that were many times the price of the CV320. The dual volume control is another very nice feature, and one that I wish more headphones had as well. Coby may not be as well known of a company as Sony or Panasonic, but with quality headphones like these, they should be!
8 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Good features for the price, but unacceptable soundJun 09, 2007
By Headphone Addict
When people review headphones they oftentimes write that they hear things in music with those headphones that they never heard before. With the Coby CV320, I had the opposite experience : I failed to hear things that I had always heard before. The problem with these headphones is a very unbalanced frequency response. Bass is strong, but the midrange is quite recessed, and the high frequencies are also quite recessed except for a narrow band of frequencies that are over-emphasized giving an artificial trebly quality. There is no upper treble at all, and this results in cymbals having no sizzle and bell-type instruments having a dead quality to them.
To explain the frequency response in another way, imagine yourself sitting in the audience listening to a rock band. With the Coby CV320, the bass guitar, cymbals, and wood blocks would be right in your face, and all other instruments (e.g. guitar, organ, drums, and vocals) would be back stage. It is those back-stage instruments that are playing the main musical content. As a result you get a very distorted image of what the music is about -- you won't properly hear the parts of the music that the composer intended.
On the plus side, these headphones have full-sized circumaural (around the ear) earpieces which are quite comfortable. However the headband is a hard plastic with no padding, so you would probably want to supply your own padding. The headphones also have volume controls on each earpiece which is unusual for this price.
In summary, the frequency response of these headphones is just too far out of balance; indeed, these headphones have the most out of balance frequency response that I have ever heard. If you need a really cheap pair of headphones, try the Coby CVH42 headphones. I got them for $2 at Dollar General, and they are much, much better headphones than the Coby CV320. As a matter of fact, they compare favorably to many $20 pair of headphones.
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