Customer Reviews

Panasonic RP-HT65 Light-Weight Headphones

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These headphones are a very good pair for $20. They do not distort at high volume and have relativley good base (compared to the $250 studio monitor heaadphones by panasonic). They are very comfortable but the ajustments for the ear cups wear out quickly, for they are made with not the best plastic. Overall good headphones!

For less than $20, these headphones have great sound quality, comfortable ear pads, and seem to work well with either my ipod or computer headphone jack. The earpieces are hinged to the headband, allowing them to swivel a bit and expand or contract in case you have a wider head. There's even a volume control on the cord, which comes in really handy when I'm using them at work. (I also like that they're the old-school foam ear pads and not internal to your ear - better to hear other people trying to get your attention if you are at work).

The only negative - the headband expands to about 1.75" thick at its widest (at the top of your head), which seems a little excessive and tends to smush your hair down a bit. But if that isn't a concern for you, you could hardly do better overall for the price.

These headphones have good overall sound quality, but the best features are the fully adjusting headband and the volume control on the cord. The angled plug is OK if you need it, but not a big selling feature for me.

I'm actually going to do something I don't normally do and write a very short review. I purchased and returned a Philips HS820 because it was defective. So I opted for these. Apparently Panasonic had changed the design of these because while the package I got where the same model numbers, the headphones were not the same. They must've changed the speakers as well. I must be perfectly honest...these sound absoultely terrible. The bass is strong but muddied, bland, cold, delayed, all that bad stuff. The mids sound like junk, and the phones in general sound like they are coming through a soda can. 200-500k is bloated and anything aftere that is recessed. Treble, you ask? You'll have to look elsewhere. And that's what I am going to do. And I gave it a fair shot since most would call me an audiophile. Sansa earbuds sounded better. iPod earbuds better. Koss UR5 that was just moping around...way better. I do like how they fold up and these do come with a nifty volume control, but anything except maybe the occasional dollar store pair, is better. I'm not sure if Panasonic changed the speakers or not because below are sound raving reviews--but these sound absolutely torturing.

See me for my next try -- Cyber Acoustics ACM6800.