Customer Reviews

Sony MDR-222KD Childrens Headphones (Black)

5 star:		(49)
4 star:		(19)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(14)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

I bought this headset for my 2-year old after one of the connectors disconnected on his Kidz Gear Wired Headphones For Kids headphone.

Although the description indicates these are designed for 8+, the headset fit over my son's head pretty well. However, the headband part kept slipping down and the spongy earphone material just didn't "hold" well on my son's ears. It might be that my son doesn't have enough hair for the headphones to grip/hold onto.

In comparison, the Kidz Gear headset had a double band which seemed to grip his head better. Plus, the earphones were made of a leather-like material which cupped the ear, rather than laying directly on it. The sound quality on the Kidz Gear was much better.

If I had to choose between the two, I would have to choose the Kidz Gear one.

We needed head phones for our 3.5 year old son. The ones that stick in your ears kept falling out. These perfectly fit on his head, he actually has to extend the headband a tiny bit, so I wouldn't worry about them being too big.

Bought this product recently for my third grader. Controls volume as advertised, though I still ask him to keep the volume below the max on his MP3 player. Unfortunately, the cord is not properly bonded to the miniplug, so only the wire is holding it together. I expect it to break entirely soon. It is clearly a manufacturing defect, not wear. Since these are not expensive enough to hassle with a return, I will try some glue. Generally, I expect better quality control from Sony.

these
would probably work for 5 to 6 yr old children of average size.
had to send them back. My granddaughter is 8yrs old and they
were too small.

Though this headphone is from Sony which normally makes good products, i have to say, its not very good. After only 2 weeks of use the connector broke. Though the rest of the headphone is fine, I found that it was not well made where the connector is.

To me it seems to be a design flaw. Fits well on children of most age under 12, but its design problems should be taken into account.

Sound is good, and does limit output so that children ears have less chance to be damaged, something that was a plus for it.

We got these for my 5 year old daughter to use with her MP3 player. I was excited at the idea of the volume control since I knew she liked to turn it all the way up. However she only had these about 2 months when they stopped working all together. I thought it was the MP2 player, but it worked with my headphones fine. My daughter is fairly careful, as careful as a 5 year old can be, and really only used these in the car for long trips. I certainly don't believe anything was done beyond normal wear. I was disappointed since I thought I had paid more to get a better quality. We are now using the Philips kids headphones and have been pleased with the quality.

I can't either. While children have more sensitive hearing than adults neither of my two children (age 5 and 7) can hear from the pair we purchased. My son has a different earphone product that works beautifully. They have a volume control on the cord. I understand why that can be a problem, however, in our case, we have a useless pair of earphones.

I was so pleased to find these headphones! My twin girls discovered our old discmans (discmen?) a couple months before they turned nine. We were always worried about how high the volume was. These headphones don't allow the volume to go beyond a certain decibel. They also fit very nicely on their heads. Up until these headphones, they wanted to wear earbuds because the bigger headphones weren't comfortable.

In one of the descriptions I read about these headphones, it made me think that you could manually control the volume with the headphones. This is not the case, but it doesn't really matter. The one downside for us is that we can hear what they are listening to even when the volume is low. I don't mind this as much as my husband.

Overall, if you are going to let your kids use headphones, I highly recommend these!

I bought these earphones for my two girls, 7 and 9 to use with their Sony 9" portable dvd players. I had read the reviews and one of the things that someone had said was that the volume on them was controlled to a certain level and they would have liked to have the option to turn them up louder. I have found the volume to be more than adequate, in fact I have even had to ask them to turn the volume down because I could hear the sound loud and clear when I would be next to them. They fit perfectly and have had no complaints of them slipping off or pinching. I would definately reccommend these earphones and would buy them again without hesitation.

Gave it as part of a present for my 2 year old and the headphones are perfect for her.