Panasonic RP HC50E A

Pros: small and lightweight, noise canceling, several colors available, great sound, fairly cheap

Cons: a bit spendy, initially uncomfortable, battery door opens on it's own occasionally

The Bottom Line: Buy them! They're compact, offer excellent sound (including bass), and cancel outside noise so you don't have to crank it dangerously.

Review: Well, I've only had my pair of Panasonic RP-HC50 headphones for a little over a week now, but I think I can give you a very good idea of the quality and value of it already. First off, I'm a BMX biker, and do a lot of dirt jumping and bumpy street...

Pros: Price, noise-canceling actually works, size

Cons: Extra unit to carry around, too many switches, they're still ear buds

The Bottom Line: Bottom Line: Buy 'em, you'll love 'em.

Review: Let me start by saying that I have purchased four sets of headphones this week, and the only set I kept were these Panasonic RP-HC50s. Overall, these headphones rock. I had tried expensive noise-canceling headphones before, and loved the quality, but...

Pros: small in size, cheaper than Sony's ear buds, long battery life

Cons: Poor sound quality, adds its own noise, not much noise reduction and not that comfy.

Review: The ear buds are not that comfortable - I don't understand why they couldn't provide the soft fit-into-your-ear things. The sound quality is actually quite poor and the noise reduction is minimal. In fact, the system introduces its own low and high freque ...

Pros: none

Cons: no noise cancellation--actually adds noise.

The Bottom Line: just bad implementation of a good idea. primary design feature does not work.

Review: maybe a bit harsh, especially since i appear to be the sole dissenter among the reviewers so far. anyway, i'll give my honest impression: the sole reason i purchased these buds was for the noise cancellation properties. i already have numerous buds i ...

Pros: Small, compact.

Cons: Does not noise cancel. Panasonic doesn't offer any replacement support for an upgrade.

Review: I purchased the RP-HC50 as replacement for a RP-HC70 that was left on an airplane. I was traveling when I purchased the HC50 and the store (3000 miles away from where I live) was out of stock of the HC70 (which have foam padded headsets instead of ...

Pros: ZERO

Cons: Don't do it!

Review: I bought these at an airport gift shop for my trip from London to Houston - 10+ hours....Plugged into the airplane sound system (with supplied adapter) as well as my laptop. There is virtually no difference in the sound with the unit ON versus OFF. ...