JWIN JHV100 Closed-Type Pro Digital Studio Monitor Headphones

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00009W42Y
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 13, 2003

Product Description

Closed-Type Pro Digital Studio Monitor Headphones / Powerful 40 mm Neodymium magnet drivers / Dual side volume controls / Freq range: 18 Hz - 22,000Hz Built-in stereo speakers Supports all popular disc formats - DVD, VCD, CD-R & RW, JPEG CD and MP3 Includes IR remote control Input/Output Connectors - Composite video in, S-Video jack, Audio & video in/out, 3.5mm headphone jack Dimensions(LxWxH) - 8.27 x 1.46 x 5.51 Weight - 1.76 lbs. (Without rechargeable battery)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Bargain Phones, March 24, 2007

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David L. Vasser (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JWIN JHV100 Closed-Type Pro Digital Studio Monitor Headphones (Electronics)

I have owned and intensely used (often wearing out and sometimes even destroying) lots of very expensive professional headphones by Stanton, Pickering, Koss, Pioneer, Sony, Fostex, Clevite-Brush, AKG and Sennheiser in my previous career in broadcasting and recording studio work. I currently also have at home a pair of Koss Pro4AA and a pair of Sennheiser open ear phones.

My wife got these JWIN phones free as a rewards points premium from the bank. She gave them to me and I worked hard to keep from laughing. I'd never heard of JWIN. I probably never would have bought these in a million years in a store. They sat in the box unopened for months. The headphones I was using on my computer were a mic/headphone combo by Jensen which I bought at Wal-Mart for about $20 and the cable was too short which lead to eventually messing up the cord, but they sounded terrible with my bass guitar anyway. So I had this free set of JWIN JVH100's laying around and decided to try them. The JWIN phones really sound lots better than I expected with my computer. I'm using the computer to practice guitar and electric bass as I play along to pre-recorded music and also to record.

These are NOT the best sounding headphones I've ever used, but far from the worst. They lack that lustre in the high end and seem to top out in the upper midrange but the sealed ear design yields better bass than open air phones so that makes them great for bass guitar practice. I prefer a straight cord over a curly cord when working with a guitar so these work for that. These JWINS are very light, very comfortable and can be worn far longer than the Koss PRO4AA phones without going nuts. The Koss phones sound much better all around but are like clamping a 4 pound weight to your head with a vice compared to the cheap JWINS. The equally light open air Sennheiser phones tend to fall off if I lean forward or backward and they certainly don't have as much bass punch but again the high frequency response on the Sennheiser's is much better. The Sennheisers will also feedback like mad when using a microphone with lots of compression and processing. The closed ear JWINS won't.

These JWIN phones are NOT for citical listening, mixing or professional use by any stretch of the imagination. While they have a nice sturdy cable from the connector into the left earcup, the wire that runs from the left earcup through the headband into the right earcup is ultra thin and I expect it to break any minute like a strand of overcooked thin spaghetti. But I've been using these phones daily on my home computer for about 6 months and so far so good. I know they would not hold up in a radio studio for long.

If you are looking for a closed ear phone you can wear for hours on end with little fatigue that do not distort too badly these are perfect. If you are looking for something to do critical listening or if you throw your gear around alot, pay ten times more and get pro phones. These come with a stereo mini-plug and mini-plug to phone plug adapter and a pretty long cable. They also have built-in volume controls for each earcup which can cause problems but so far these phones have held up well to daily home use. I've never seen a pair of phones with built in volume controls that didn't eventually develop problems in the controls no matter who made them.

I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but I like these cheap little phones just fine for non-critical use. When they do break, if I can't fix them I'll try to get another set like them. For $15 bucks or less, you won't do better for home use and these are among the most comfortable sealed ear phones I've ever put on. When I first saw these phones in the box I thought they would sound awful. While not super, they do sound OK. I'd say they are on par with the $60 Fostex phones one radio station where I worked provided for you to use if you didn't have your own phones.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good headphones for the money, October 31, 2006

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A. Stover "depressed" (Dallas, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JWIN JHV100 Closed-Type Pro Digital Studio Monitor Headphones (Electronics)

I live in an apartment building and play ( well, practice is a better word ) the bass guitar and needed headphones so I wouldn't bother neighbors or my wife whom sleeps and watchs TV about 6 feet from where I sit and play.

The 10 foot long cord was perfect for distance for sitting or standing and moving around while playing, so I wouldn't have to use an extention cable ( and usualy end up with feedback/distortion associated to an unshielded connector in an extention cable)

The volume control on each earpiece lets me adjust the volume so I don't have to mess with my amp or guitar volume settings I like to use when not using headphones. Makes it real nice too when using an instructional CD or DVD i can turn the bass sound off in one ear to hear the instructions clearly witout needing to seriously skew the headphones off my head.

Very light weight. Some headphones can weight the head down making you feel like one of them 'bobble heads'. Fits firmly on the head without any pinching or binding anywere.

Cord enters headphones on the left ear side, so you don't have to deal with the classic 'Y' split cord. Easy to flip to the side or drape over the back out of the way.

Earpices fit nicly over my ears (no pinching, gouging or squishing with plenty of clearance around the ear) and does a very nice job blocking out noise ( when my wife is awake she watchs the TV, rather loudly, which is right next to me and I bairly notice it). Plenty of padding around the ear pieces. Many headphones inside near the ear has hard plastic between the ear and speaker which usualy digs into the ear, but these headphones I honestly don't feel anything against my ears. Even after several hours of use each night.

Sound quality. Bose or pioneer they are not, but then if you wanted such high quality you wouldn't be shopping in the $20 and under headphones :)

That being said they are very good for sound. Sounded very good on a portable CD player.

Only drawbacks I can see is that a person with large/tall ears won't get thier ears covered by the earpads. The inside opening of the earpads is aprox 2 1/4 inchs tall by 1 3/4. IMO they could have been made bigger.

Also, if you have a tall head ( good distance from top of head to ear ) you may find fully extended the headphones might not reach your ears.

I have a head like Drew Carry ( give you an idea head size/shape I'm talking about) and if the extension to each earpiece would have been any shorter they wouldn't have fit.

I wear glasses as well by the way and the headphones don't interfere, bind, pinch or anything like that with my glasses.

So, I highly recomend them if low cost headphones is what you are after( I don't recomend things often :) )

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Every Penny - Great Sound, October 20, 2006

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Yogi (Dallas,TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JWIN JHV100 Closed-Type Pro Digital Studio Monitor Headphones (Electronics)

These are great headphones.
I am very picky about sound but do not want to pay high prices.
Therefore there has to be a compromise, but not much.
These sound great in all types of music and go louder than many over the head phones.
I compared it with 5 or 6 other headphones below $30.
I compared against Jensen full size headphones that I put aside comparing for less than one minute.
Then I compared against Phillips HSP2500.
[ Phillips sounded louder but bass was muddier. Music and vocal didn't separate clearly.]
Again, I compared this with Sony MDR-XD200.
Sony MDR-XD200 was louder due to its sensitivity but didn't give clear sound.
The only headphone I liked besides these were Koss UR21C but that lacked loudness and long cord.
For $7 and above average sound quality, you can never go wrong.
Oh yeah, it is very comfortable.
I wear these at work for long hours and doesn't hurt even with my glasses.